Top Ten Tuesday #465

Hi all! I hope you’ve all had a good week since I last did one of these. I was out at a Guilty Feminist podcast recording at Kings Place last night which was really fun as always, I’ve been really behind on listening to the podcast episodes so I always jump on the chance to go to the live recordings when I have the chance.

Anyway, it’s Tuesday, so time for another Top Ten Tuesday courtesy of Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is from Sabrina @ Notes From A Paper Plane Nomad and is Movies/TV Shows That Would Have Made Amazing Books. This is kind of a tricky one as a lot of movies and TV shows are adapted from books anyway, so it’s hard to think of what ones aren’t and would also make a good book. I also famously have very different tastes in books and films/TV shows, so a lot of the on screen media I consume is not necessarily something I would read but it’s a fun topic and I like a challenge, so we’ll see how it goes:

1. 13 Going On 30

I reckon this would make a really fun book, it probably wouldn’t be something I would read because though I like rom-coms, I don’t much like romantic novels but I reckon for those who do, this could be a really fun and slightly unconventional love story.

2. Miss Congeniality

Miss Congeniality would be so much fun as a book! The premise is great, an FBI agent going undercover in a beauty pageant, you have action, espionage, comedy, a little romance for those who want that, what is not to love? (though personally I would probably take out the romance because Eric ends up being an ass in the next film!)

3. Gilmore Girls

Gilmore Girls would make a great series of books, the show already features a lot of literary references so I feel like it would be quite natural to turn it into books, and it would be really fun to be able to maybe delve into some of the quirky side characters of Stars Hollow and I reckon you could do that quite well in a series of books.

4. Ghosts

How good would Ghosts be as a book series (and yes, I’m talking the British version here not the American)? Like haunted house but funny is such a good concept anyway and with a book series you could have even more time to spend with the ghosts and really delve into their lives and backstories!

5. Derry Girls

Derry Girls would be so much fun as a book, I love the show but the episodes are fairly short, I would love to have a chance to spend more time with the characters and really delve into them more in the way you could in a book series. Also really selfishly I want to know what happened with Erin and James after the final episode!

6. Good Girls

I will forever be bummed that this series was cancelled prematurely because I think it was SO GOOD but it would make such a fun book series, the premise has so much promise, three suburban mums who get drawn into criminal activities to solve their financial problems. I’d love a book series to continue where the series left off because it didn’t wrap everything up in an at all satisfying way due to the show being prematurely cancelled!

7. Mamma Mia!

I know Mamma Mia originated as a (still running) stage show and was then a film but I think it could also be a really fun book even without the ABBA music, there’s plenty of comic misunderstandings and ludicrous events that would make for a very fun story especially with the Greek island setting. I know it’s very much not the point but I would also love a book to finally confirm who Sophie’s biological father is: I’m still going with Bill as my guess.

8. Just My Luck

I apparently really love the rom-coms that involve some kind of magical element, this one is two people who are respectively extremely lucky and unlucky whose luck changes when they kiss at a party-yes the premise is a little out there, but it’s a fun concept and I reckon it could make for a really fun book.

9. The Proposal

This topic is really unfortunate when you like rom-coms but don’t like romance books because almost everything I’m suggesting is not a book I would actually read! But this would be great for fans of the enemies-to-lovers/marriage of convenience trope as the whole premise revolves around an editor having to marry her assistant for a green card.

10. The Adam Project

This would be such a fun sci-fi novel, I am not usually a big sci-fi person but I really enjoyed this film and would love to see it adapted into a novel. If you’ve not seen the film, it’s on Netflix and basically the premise is that a fighter pilot in the future goes back in time to save his wife but ends up crash landing in the wrong time and has to complete his mission with the help of his younger self. Would make a cool book, no?

So there we go, 10 Movies/TV Shows That Would Make Good Books. Have you seen any of these? Do you agree with my choices? What did you pick this week? Let me know in the comments! I actually thought this would be a lot harder than it ended up being, and it was a really fun topic to do, so thank you Sabrina!

I’ll be back next week with another Top Ten Tuesday, the topic this time is April Showers which I think can basically be interpreted any way we like. Now I’ve already done books with water on the cover last year, so I think I’m going to do Books With Water Related Titles, and I’m taking that fairly broadly, so anything rain, storm, sea, lightning etc will qualify.