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* Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville, adapted by John Huston (1956)
  Washington Square (1878) by Henry James, retitled The Heiress (1949), by Ruth & Augustus Goetz
* Washington Square, adapted by Carol Doyle (1997)
  Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain, adapted by James Lee (1960)
* The Bostonians (1886) by Henry James, adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1984)
* Billy Budd (1891) by Herman Melville, adapted by Peter Ustinov (1962)
  The Red Badge of Courage (1895) by Stephen Crane, adapted by John Huston (1951)
  McTeague (1901) by Frank Norris, retitled Greed (1924), adapted by Erich von Stroheim
* The House of Mirth (1905) by Edith Wharton, adapted by Terence Davies (2000)
* The Dead (1914) by Irish writer James Joyce, adapted by John Huston (1987)
  The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted by Richard Maibaum (1948)
  The Great Gatsby, adapted by Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
* The Great Gatsby, adapted by John McLoughlin (2000)
  The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway, NBC television miniseries (1984)
  A Farewell to Arms (1929) by Hemingway, adapted by Benjamin Glazer & Oliver Garrett (1932)
  A Farewell to Arms, adapted by Ben Hecht (1957)
* The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck, adapted by Nunnally Johnson & John Ford (1940)
  The Day of the Locust (1939) by Nathaniel West, adapted by Waldo Salt (1974)
* For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) by Hemingway, adapted by Dudley Nichols (1943)
* Wise Blood (1952) by Flannery O’Connor, adapted by John Huston (1979)
  The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Hemingway, adapted by Peter Viertel (1958)
  On the Waterfront (1954), by Budd Schulberg
  Ship of Fools (1962), by Katherine Anne Porter, adapted by Stanley Kramer (1965)
  One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey, by Lawrence Hauben & Bo Goldman (1975)
  Apocalypse Now (1979), by John Milius & Francis Ford Coppola
  Reds (1981), by Warren Beatty & Trevor Griffiths
* The Big Chill (1983), by Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek
  Oleanna (1992), by David Mamet
* Troll Hunter (2010), by Andre Ovredal (Norwegian)

* Best Films