Category
page 2American novels adapted into plays

A Confederacy of Dunces
1980 novel by John Kennedy Toole

Looking Backward
novel by Edward Bellamy

When Nietzsche Wept
1992 novel by Irvin D. Yalom

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
1974 novel by Philip K. Dick

Wicked (Maguire novel)
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a 1995 dark fantasy novel by American writer Gregory Maguire, with illustrations by Douglas Smith. It is the first novel in The Wicked Years series, and was followed by Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz.

Johnny Got His Gun
1939 novel by Dalton Trumbo

The Outsiders
novel by S. E. Hinton

The Forever War
1974 novel by Joe Haldeman

We the Living
1936 novel by Ayn Rand

A Wrinkle in Time
1962 science fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle

The Bluest Eye
novel by Toni Morrison

The Last Unicorn
1968 fantasy novel by Peter S. Beagle

Ozma of Oz
novel by L. Frank Baum

It Can't Happen Here
1935 dystopian novel by Sinclair Lewis

The Lathe of Heaven
1971 novel by Ursula K. Le Guin

All the King's Men
1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren
Flowers in the Attic
novel by V. C. Andrews

A Time to Kill
1989 novel by John Grisham

Giovanni's Room
1956 novella by James Baldwin

Cannery Row
novel by John Steinbeck

Mother Night
novel by Kurt Vonnegut

The Love of the Last Tycoon
1941 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Babel-17
Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (that language influences thought and perception) plays an important part. It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 (with Flowers for Algernon) and was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1967.

The Moon Is Down
1942 novella by John Steinbeck

Anna and the King of Siam
1944 semi-fictionalized biographical novel by Margaret Landon

Washington Square
1880 romantic bildungsroman by Henry James

My Ántonia
novel by Willa Cather

The Haunting of Hill House
1959 novel by Shirley Jackson

A Prayer for Owen Meany
1989 novel by John Irving

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1925 comic novel by Anita Loos

From Here to Eternity
1951 novel by James Jones

A Monster Calls
novel by Patrick Ness
U.S.A.
series of novels written by John Dos Passos
The Phantom Tollbooth
1989 edition

The Exorcist
novel by William P. Blatty

Strangers on a Train
novel by Patricia Highsmith

The House of Mirth
novel by Edith Wharton

Go ask Alice
1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks

Ramona
Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and annexation of the territory by the United States, Ramona explores the life of a mixed-race Scottish–Native American orphan girl. The story was inspired by the marriage of Hugo Reid and Victoria Reid.

The Manchurian Candidate
novel by Richard Condon

The Yearling
1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Pudd'nhead Wilson
novel by the American author Mark Twain

Something Wicked This Way Comes
1962 novel by Ray Bradbury

Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston

Elmer Gantry
1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis

The Grass Harp
novel by Truman Capote, 1951

Simulacron-3
Simulacron-3 (also published as Counterfeit World) is a 1964 science fiction novel by American author Daniel F. Galouye featuring an early literary description of a simulated reality.

Number the Stars
novel by Lois Lowry

Jailbird
1979 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

The House on Mango Street
1984 novel by Sandra Cisneros

The Wings of the Dove
1902 novel by Henry James

Tobacco Road
1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell

Double Indemnity
novel by James M. Cain

Address Unknown
novel by Kathrine Taylor

Ragtime
1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow
Enemies, a Love Story
novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Freaky Friday
novel by Mary Rodgers

Tuck Everlasting
1975 novel by Natalie Babbitt

Birdy
novel by William Wharton

The March
2005 novel by E. L. Doctorow