Tuesday Ten: Books I Want Movies From

This week's topic from The Broke and the Bookish is books you'd like to see as movies. This is a hard list for me to make because books are so much better than movies and the last movie I saw was The Muppets when it came out on DVD, and I probably go to the actual theaters like two or three times a year mayyybe, so I am not the best person to ask about movies. But okay, I'll give it a try. Because I do love movies like A Walk to Remember and Geek Charming and The Hunger Games and sometimes books make really good movies. Also, I only have six books because of whatever.

1. The List

Siobhan Vivian

It's sad, but I'm pretty sure the only way this would make it to any sort of screen is if Lifetime decided to make it into a totally salacious "teenage girl problems" movie. Which is, like I said, sad. But that aside, the many different characters and POVs here would be a great fit for a movie along the lines of He's Just Not That Into You. Except, you know, different.

2. Jessie <3 NYC

Keris Stainton

This was the first book I thought of for this topic because even in my review I mentioned how I wished this book were a movie. The characters, storyline, and little surprises along the way are the sort of things that work so great in movies. YOU HEAR ME, MOVIE PEOPLE? Make it happen.

3. Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance

Emily Franklin & Brendan Halpin

How meta would a movie about teen starlets in a fake romance be? SO META. And also, pretty awesome.

4. The Mockingbirds

Daisy Whitney

There's something about this book -- the subject matter, the well-drawn characters, the underground justice system, that I would love to see on screen. It's got the right mix of interesting, unexpected, and tried-and-true to be a really awesome, if slightly understated, movie. 

5. Two-Way Street

Lauren Barnholdt

This one came out five years ago, so it's probably not exactly on your radar, but from what I remember it definitely should be. Exes on a road trip together, on the way to the same college? Unresolved feelings and too much ambiguity? I love this book and I want it to be a movie that I will also love. 

6. Cheating At Solitaire

Ally Carter

This is another older book (it came out in 2005 and isn't even YA), and is one of the few straight-up "chick lit" (ugh, can't we rename that genre?) that I've flat-out loved. The love story is meet-cute perfect for a movie.