BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2016 Academy Awards was a night of movie magic, celebrating the best and brightest cinematic efforts of the year with a star-studded audience straight from the silver screen. Before hitting the Hollywood limelight, many of these movie masterpieces were based on best-selling books. Fans of “The Revenant,” “The Martian,” “The Big Short” and more can read the beloved literary stories that brought these screenplays to life. To spotlight noteworthy novels that have been adapted into award-winning films, Books-A-Million has released their top five picks of motion picture must-reads.
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• “The Revenant : A Novel of Revenge” |
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By Michael Punke |
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| A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, “The Revenant” is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass. | |
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• “The Martian” |
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By Andy Weir |
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| Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit, he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. | |
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• “The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine” |
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By Michael Lewis |
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| From the author of “The Blind Side” and “Moneyball,” “The Big Short” tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit and housing bubble collapse before anyone else. | |
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• “The Danish Girl” |
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By David Ebershoff |
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| Uniting fact and fiction into an original romantic vision, "The Danish Girl" eloquently portrays the unique intimacy that defines every marriage and the remarkable story of Lili Elbe, a pioneer in transgender history, and the woman torn between loyalty to her marriage and her own ambitions and desires. | |
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• “Room” |
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By Emma Donoghue |
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| Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this 11-by-11-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. "Room" is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating--a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her chi | ld. |
To see more book-to-film top picks from Books-A-Million, visit bit.ly/BAM_B2F.
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