Novels adapted into video games

1997–2007 fantasy book series by J. K. Rowling

novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)

1865 children's novel by Lewis Carroll

1945 novella by George Orwell

1937 fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien

series of books about a British spy

1862 novel by Victor Hugo

A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of high fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. Martin began writing the first volume, A Game of Thrones, in 1991, and published it in 1996. Martin, who originally envisioned the series as a trilogy, has released five out of seven planned volumes. The most recent entry in the series, A Dance with Dragons, was published in 2011. Martin plans to write the sixth novel, titled The Winds of Winter. A seventh novel, A Dream of Spring, is planned to follow.

1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821.

2003 novel by Dan Brown

1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1883 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson

1883 novel by Carlo Collodi

series of children's fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis, 1950–1956

The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.

novel by Jules Verne

one of China's Four Great Classical Novels

novel by Victor Hugo

1876 adventure novel and bildungsroman by Mark Twain

1869/1870 novel by Jules Verne

one of China's Four Great Classical Novels

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

fictional Belgian detective by Agatha Christie

1953 novel by Ray Bradbury

1980 novel by Umberto Eco

1897 serialized novel by H. G. Wells

1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne

1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

1899 novella by Joseph Conrad

14th century Chinese novel, attributed to Shi Nai’an, one of China's Four Great Classical Novels

1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl

1939 novel by Agatha Christie

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1874 novel by Jules Verne

fictional character created by Robert E. Howard

series of fantasy novels and short stories by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski

novel series by Lemony Snicket

1910 novel by Gaston Leroux

1979 novel by Michael Ende

1985 novel by Orson Scott Card

series of fantasy novels by Robert Jordan

shared fictional universe based on the work of H. P. Lovecraft

1963 French novel by Pierre Boulle

1950 novel by Ray Bradbury

1896 novel by Herbert George Wells

Discworld is a collection of fantasy comedy novels, graphic novels, short stories, and associated works conceived and primarily written by the English author Terry Pratchett. They are united by their being set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. The novel series consists of forty-one books, the first being The Colour of Magic, published in 1983, and the last ''The Shepherd's Crown'', published posthumously in 2015. Pratchett also wrote eleven short stories related to the Discworld. The novels often satirise

picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling

Goosebumps is a series of children's horror novels written by American author R. L. Stine. The protagonists in these stories are tweens or young teens who find themselves in frightening scenarios, often involving the supernatural, the paranormal or the occult. Between 1992 and 1997, sixty-two books were published under the Goosebumps umbrella title. R. L. Stine also wrote various spin-off series, including, Goosebumps Series 2000, Give Yourself Goosebumps, Tales to Give You Goosebumps, Goosebumps Triple Header, Goosebumps HorrorLand, Goosebumps Most Wanted and Goosebumps SlappyWorld. Additiona

Coraline () is a 2002 British fantasy horror children's novella by author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing Coraline in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. The Guardian ranked Coraline #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by Henry Selick under the same name.

1995 novel by Philip Pullman

1972 novel Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

1983 Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett

Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. A foundational work of English-language vampire literature, it predated Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 25 years. First published as a serial in The Dark Blue from 1871–72, the novella subsequently appeared in Le Fanu’s short story collection In a Glass Darkly in 1872. Set in 19th century Styria, it is the story of a young woman who is pursued by the vampire Carmilla. Since its initial publication, Carmilla has often been regarded as one of the most influential vampire stories of all time, and popularized the lesbian v

1975 novel by James Clavell

novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Thirteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin

fictional detectives and book series

1989 novel by Stephen King

fourteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin