Ranked List
Top Rated Adaptations
Ranked by faithfulness to the source material, with Goodreads score as a tiebreaker.
- 1Gold
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
CrimeFilm 2007Faithfulness
95% - 2Silver
Different Seasons
Stephen King · The Shawshank Redemption
DramaFilm 1994Faithfulness
94% - 3Bronze
Normal People
Sally Rooney
RomanceSeries 2020Faithfulness
93% - 4
The Pianist
Władysław Szpilman
BiographyFilm 2002Faithfulness
92% - 5
Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup · 12 Years a Slave
BiographyFilm 2013Faithfulness
92% - 6
Coraline
Neil Gaiman
FantasyFilm 2009Faithfulness
92% - 7
The Queen's Gambit
Walter Tevis
DramaSeries 2020Faithfulness
92% - 8
Brokeback Mountain
Annie Proulx
DramaFilm 2005Faithfulness
92% - 9
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
ThrillerFilm 1991Faithfulness
91% - 10
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
ThrillerFilm 2014Faithfulness
91% - 11
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
DramaFilm 1992Faithfulness
91% - 12
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
DramaFilm 1962Faithfulness
90% - 13
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
ThrillerSeries 2015Faithfulness
90% - 14
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
DramaFilm 1999Faithfulness
90% - 15
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
DramaFilm 2012Faithfulness
90% - 16
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
FantasyFilm 1987Faithfulness
90% - 17
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty
ThrillerSeries 2017Faithfulness
90% - 18
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
DystopianSeries 2017Faithfulness
90% - 19
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
HistoricalSeries 2015Faithfulness
90% - 20
Call Me by Your Name
André Aciman
RomanceFilm 2017Faithfulness
90% - 21
Room
Emma Donoghue
DramaFilm 2015Faithfulness
89% - 22
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
DramaFilm 2018Faithfulness
88% - 23
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling
FantasyFilm 2001Faithfulness
88% - 24
Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally · Schindler's List
HistoricalFilm 1993Faithfulness
88% - 25
The Martian
Andy Weir
Sci-FiFilm 2015Faithfulness
88%
Faithfulness ratings reflect how closely the screen adaptation follows the source material in plot, character, and tone. Ratings are editorial assessments by the PageToScreen team.