Fiction work(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
Baby Love (1968), Tina Chad Christian |
Baby Love (1968) |
Babylon Babies (1999), Maurice Georges Dantec |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
Back Street (1931), Fannie Hurst |
Back Street (1932) Back Street (1941) Back Street (1961) |
Back When We Were Grownups (2001), Anne Tyler |
Back When We Were Grownups (2004) |
Background to Danger (1937) (a. k. a. Uncommon Danger), Eric Ambler |
Background to Danger (1943) |
Bad Girl (1928), Viña Delmar |
Bad Girl (1931) |
The Bad Seed (1954), William March (novel) * The Bad Seed (1954), play adaptation by Maxwell Anderson |
The Bad Seed (1956) The Bad Seed (1985) (TV) The Bad Seed (TBA 2013) |
Baise-moi(1999), Virginie Despentes |
Baise-moi (2000) |
The Bait (1968), Dorothy Uhnak |
The Bait (1973) (TV) |
The Ballad of Cat Ballou (1956), Roy Chanslor |
Cat Ballou (1965) |
The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man (1965), Guy Owen |
The Flim-Flam Man (1967) |
The Ballad of the Running Man (1963), Shelley Smith |
The Running Man (1963) |
Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress) (2000), Dai Sijie |
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002) |
Band of Angels (1955), Robert Penn Warren |
Band of Angels (1957) |
Bank Shot (1972), Donald E. Westlake |
Bank Shot (1974) |
Banner in the Sky (1900), James Ramsey Ullman |
Third Man on the Mountain (1959) |
The Barefoot Mailman (1943), Theodore Pratt |
The Barefoot Mailman (1951) |
Basil of Baker Street (1958), Eve Titus |
The Great Mouse Detective (1986) |
Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Dorothy Allison |
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) |
Battle Cry (1953), Leon Uris |
Battle Cry (1955) |
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1963), Rumer Godden |
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965) |
Battle Royale (1999), Koushun Takami |
Battle Royale (2000) * Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003) |
Battlefield Earth (1982), L. Ron Hubbard |
Battlefield Earth (2000) |
Be Cool (1999), Elmore Leonard |
Be Cool (2005) |
Be Ready with Bells and Drums (1961), Elizabeth Kata |
A Patch of Blue (1965) |
Be Still, My Love (1947), June Truesdell |
The Accused (1949) |
The Beach (1996), Alex Garland |
The Beach (2000) |
Beaches (1985), Iris Rainer Dart |
Beaches (1988) |
The Beardless Warriors (1960), Richard Matheson |
The Young Warriors (1967) |
The Beast (1991), Peter Benchley |
The Beast (1996) |
The Beast Master (1959), Andre Norton |
The Beastmaster (1982) * Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991) ** Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996) (TV) |
The Beast Must Die (1938), Cecil Day-Lewis (as Nicholas Blake) |
La Bestia debe morir (1952) Que la bête meure (The Beast Must Die) (1969) (a. k. a. This Man Must Die) |
The Beast Within (1981), Edward Levy |
The Beast Within (1982) |
Beat the Devil (1951), Claud Cockburn (as James Helvick) |
Beat the Devil (1953) |
Beau Brocade (1907), Baroness Emmuska Orczy |
Beau Brocade (1916) |
Beau Geste (1924), P. C. Wren |
Beau Geste (1926) Beau Hunks (1931) Beau Geste (1939) Beau Geste (1966) Follow That Camel (1967) The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) Beau Geste (1982) (TV) (mini) |
Beautiful Creatures (2009), Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl |
Beautiful Creatures (2013) |
Bedelia (1945), Vera Caspary |
Bedelia (1946) |
Bee Season (2000), Myla Goldberg |
Bee Season (2005) |
Beer and Blood: The Story of a Couple o' Wrong Guys (1930), John Bright and Kubec Glasmon |
The Public Enemy (1931) |
Before the Fact (1932), Anthony Berkeley (as Francis Iles) |
Suspicion (1941) |
Behind That Curtain (1928), Earl Derr Biggers |
Behind That Curtain (1929) |
Being There (1971), Jerzy Kosinski |
Being There (1979) |
Bel Ami (1885), Guy de Maupassant |
Bel Ami (1939) The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) Bel Ami (2005) (TV) Bel Ami (2012) |
Belle de Jour (1928), Joseph Kessel |
Belle de Jour (1967) |
Belli Moda (Silver Cloud) (1961), Anasuya Shankar |
Belli Moda (1966) |
Bellman and True (1975), Desmond Lowden |
Bellman and True (1987) The Real McCoy (1993) |
Beloved (1987), Toni Morrison |
Beloved (1998) |
Belphégor (1927), Arthur Bernède |
Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre (2001) |
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), Lew Wallace |
Ben Hur (1907) Ben-Hur (1925) Ben-Hur (1959) Ben Hur (2003) Ben Hur (2010) (TV) (mini) |
Benjamin Blake (1941), Edison Marshall |
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953) |
Benzina (Gasoline) (1998), Elena Stancanelli |
Gasoline (2001) |
Beowulf (Eighth to Eleventh Century), unknown |
Beowulf(2007) |
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), Alfred Döblin |
Berlin — Alexanderplatz (1931) Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (TV) |
La bestia nel cuore (2003), Cristina Comencini |
La bestia nel cuore (The Beast in the Heart) (2005) (a. k. a. Don't Tell) |
La Bête humaine (1890), Émile Zola |
Die Bestie im Menschen (1920) La Bête Humaine (1938) Human Desire (1954) La Bestia humana (1954) Cruel Train (1995) |
The Betsy (1971), Harold Robbins |
The Betsy (1978) |
Beyond the Forest: The Story of a Man and Woman Destroyed by Love (1948), Stuart D. Engstrand |
Beyond the Forest (1949) |
Beyond This Place (1953), A. J. Cronin |
Beyond This Place (1955) Beyond This Place (1957) (TV) Kala Pani (1958) Web of Evidence (1959) Poola Rangadu (1967) |
The BFG (1982), Roald Dahl |
The BFG (1989)
The BFG (2016) |
Bhowani Junction (1954), John Masters |
Bhowani Junction (1956) |
Bid Time Return (1975), Richard Matheson |
Somewhere in Time (1980) |
The Beginning and the End (بداية ونهاية, Bidaya wa Nihaya) (1960), Naguib Mahfouz |
Bidaya wa Nihaya (1960) |
The Big Bounce (1966) (written) (1969) (published), Elmore Leonard |
The Big Bounce (1969) The Big Bounce (2004) |
The Big Clock (1946), Kenneth Fearing |
The Big Clock (1948) No Way Out (1987) |
Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions (1998), Daniel Wallace |
Big Fish (2003) |
The Big Fisherman (1948), Lloyd C. Douglas |
The Big Fisherman (1959) |
The Big Heat (1952), William P. McGivern |
The Big Heat (1953) |
Big Red (1945), Jim Kjelgaard |
Big Red (1962) |
The Big Sleep (1939), Raymond Chandler |
The Big Sleep (1946) The Big Sleep (1978) The Big Lebowski (1998) |
Big Trouble (1999), Dave Barry |
Big Trouble (2002) |
Biggles (1932–1968) (series), W. E. Johns |
Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986) It Couldn't Happen Here (1988) |
Billion-Dollar Brain (1966), Len Deighton |
Billion Dollar Brain (1967) |
Billy Bathgate (1989), E. L. Doctorow |
Billy Bathgate (1991) |
Billy Liar (1969), Keith Waterhouse |
Billy Liar (1963) |
Birdy (1978), William Wharton |
Birdy (1984) |
The Bishop's Wife (1928), Robert Nathan |
The Bishop's Wife (1947) |
Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp) (1946) (a.k.a. Harp of Burma), Michio Takeyama |
Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp) (1956) Biruma no tatekoto (The Burmese Harp) (1985) |
"The Biscuit Eater" (1939), James H. Street |
The Biscuit Eater (1940) The Biscuit Eater (1972) |
The Bitch (1979), Jackie Collins |
The Bitch (1979) |
Bitter Moon (Lunes de fiel) (1981), Pascal Bruckner |
Bitter Moon (1992) |
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932), Grace Zaring Stone |
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) |
Black Alibi (1942), Cornell Woolrich |
The Leopard Man (1943) |
The Black Angel (1943), Cornell Woolrich |
Black Angel (1946) |
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1888), Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Black Arrow (1911) The Black Arrow (1943) The Black Arrow (1973) (TV) Black Arrow (1985) (TV) Chyornaya strela (The Black Arrow) (1987) The Black Arrow (1988) (TV) |
Black Beauty (1877), Anna Sewell |
Black Beauty (1921) Black Beauty (1933) Black Beauty (1946) Courage of Black Beauty (1958) Black Beauty (1971) Black Beauty (1978) (TV) Black Beauty (1994) Black Beauty (1995) (V) |
The Black Camel (1929), Earl Derr Biggers |
The Black Camel (1931) |
The Black Curtain (1941), Cornell Woolrich |
Street of Chance (1942) |
The Black Dahlia (1987), James Ellroy |
The Black Dahlia (2006) |
Black Narcissus (1939), Rumer Godden |
Black Narcissus (1947) |
The Black Path of Fear (1944), Cornell Woolrich |
The Chase (1946) |
The Black Rose (1945), Thomas B. Costain |
The Black Rose (1950) |
The Black Stallion (1941–1989) (series), Walter Farley The Black Stallion (1941) * The Black Stallion Returns (1945) ** The Young Black Stallion (1989) |
The Black Stallion (1979–2003) (series) The Black Stallion (1979) * The Black Stallion Returns (1983) ** The Young Black Stallion (2003) |
Black Sunday (1971), Thomas Harris |
Black Sunday (1977) |
The Blackboard Jungle (1954), Evan Hunter |
Blackboard Jungle (1955) |
Blackbeard's Ghost (1965), Ben Stahl |
Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) |
The Blank Wall (1947), Elisabeth Sanxay Holding |
The Reckless Moment (1949) The Deep End (2001) |
Blaze of Noon (1946), Ernest K. Gann |
Blaze of Noon (1947) |
Le Blé en herbe (1923), Colette |
Le Blé en herbe (1954) Le Blé en herbe (1990) |
Bleak House (1852–1853) (serial), (1853) (novel), Charles Dickens |
Bleak House (1920) Bleak House (1922) Bleak House (1927) (short film) Bleak House (1959) (TV) (serial) Bleak House (1985) (TV) (serial) Bleak House (2005) (TV) (serial) |
Bless the Beasts and Children (1970), Glendon Swarthout |
Bless the Beasts & Children (1971) |
Bless the Child (1993), Cathy Cash Spellman |
Bless the Child (2000) |
The Blessing (1951), Nancy Mitford |
Count Your Blessings (1959) |
Blood and Chocolate (1997), Annette Curtis Klause |
Blood & Chocolate (2007) |
Blood Brother (1947), Elliott Arnold |
Broken Arrow (1950) |
Blood on the Moon (1941) (a.k.a. Gunman's Chance), Luke Short |
Blood on the Moon (1948) |
Blood on the Moon (1984), James Ellroy |
Cop (1988) |
The Blood Oranges (1970), John Hawkes |
The Blood Oranges (1997) |
Blood Work (1998), Michael Connelly |
Blood Work (2002) |
Blue Fin (1969), Colin Thiele |
Blue Fin (1978) |
The Blue Lagoon (1908), Henry De Vere Stacpoole |
The Blue Lagoon (1923) The Blue Lagoon (1949) The Blue Lagoon (1980) |
Blueprint (Blaupause) (1999), Charlotte Kerner |
Blueprint (2003) |
The Body (1983), Richard Sapir |
The Body (2001) |
The Body Snatchers (1955), Jack Finney |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) * Body Snatchers (1993) ** The Invasion (2007) Invasion of the Pod People (2007) |
Bombaiyer Bombete (1976), Satyajit Ray |
Bombaiyer Bombete (2003) |
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), Tom Wolfe |
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) |
Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness) (1954), Françoise Sagan |
Bonjour Tristesse (1958) |
Boogiepop and Others (1998), Kouhei Kadono |
Boogiepop and Others (2000) |
The Book of Daniel (1971), E. L. Doctorow |
Daniel (1983) |
Das Boot (The Boat) (1973), Lothar-Günther Buchheim |
Das Boot (The Boat) (1981) |
The Border Jumpers (1955), Will C. Brown |
Man of the West (1958) |
The Border Legion (1916), Zane Grey |
The Border Legion (1924) The Last Round-Up (1934) |
Border Town (1934), Carroll Graham |
Bordertown (1935) |
The Borrowers (1952), Mary Norton |
The Borrowers (1973) (TV) The Borrowers (1997) The Borrower Arrietty (2010) |
The Bostonians (1885–1886) (serial), (1886) (novel), Henry James |
The Bostonians (1984) |
Bourne (1980–2012) (series), Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader The Bourne Identity (1980) * The Bourne Supremacy (1986) ** The Bourne Ultimatum (1990) *** The Bourne Legacy (2004) |
The Bourne Identity (1988) (TV) Bourne (2002–present) (series) The Bourne Identity (2002) * The Bourne Supremacy (2004) ** The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) *** The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006), John Boyne |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) |
Boy on a Dolphin (1955), David Divine |
Boy on a Dolphin (1957) |
The Boys from Brazil (1976), Ira Levin |
The Boys from Brazil (1978) |
The Bravados (1958), Frank O'Rourke |
The Bravados (1958) |
The Brave Bulls (1949), Thomas C. Lea III |
The Brave Bulls (1951) |
The Brave Cowboy (1956), Edward Abbey |
Lonely Are the Brave (1962) |
The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances (1980) Thomas M. Disch * The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1988), Thomas M. Disch |
The Brave Little Toaster (1987) * The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998) ** The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1999) |
Brave New World (1932), Aldous Huxley |
Brave New World (1980) Brave New World (1998) Brave New World (TBA 2011) |
Breakfast of Champions (1973), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
Breakfast of Champions (1999) |
Breakfast on Pluto (1998), Patrick McCabe |
Breakfast on Pluto (2005) |
Breakfast with Scot (1999), Michael Downing |
Breakfast with Scot (2007) |
Breakheart Pass (1974), Alistair MacLean |
Breakheart Pass (1975) |
Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse (1963), Paul St. Pierre |
Smith! (1969) |
The Bride Wore Black (1940), Cornell Woolrich |
The Bride Wore Black (1967) |
Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (1945), Evelyn Waugh |
Brideshead Revisited (1981) (TV) (serial) Brideshead Revisited (2008) |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), Thornton Wilder |
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004) |
Bridge to Terabithia (1977), Katherine Paterson |
Bridge to Terabithia (1985) (TV) Bridge to Terabithia (2007) |
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953), James A. Michener |
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953) |
The Bridges of Madison County (a. k. a. Love in Black and White) (1992), Robert James Waller |
The Bridges of Madison County (1995) |
Bridget Jones (1996–1999) (series), Helen Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) * Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999) |
Bridget Jones (2001–2004) (series) Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) * Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) |
Bright Lights, Big City (1984), Jay McInerney |
Bright Lights, Big City (1988) |
Brighton Rock (1938), Graham Greene |
Brighton Rock (1947) Brighton Rock (2010) |
Bringing Out the Dead (1998), Joe Connelly |
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) |
Brødre i Blodet (Brothers by Blood) (1996), Ingvar Ambjørnsen |
Elling (2001) * Mors Elling (2003) ** Elsk meg i morgen (2005) |
Broken April (1978), Ismail Kadare |
Abril Despedaçado (Behind the Sun) (2001) |
Brothers in Law (1955), Henry Cecil |
Brothers in Law (1957) |
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
The Brothers Karamazov (1958) The Brothers Karamazov (1969) |
Brown's Requiem (1981), James Ellroy |
Brown's Requiem (1998) |
Buddwing (1964), Evan Hunter |
Mister Buddwing (1966) |
Buffalo Girls (1990), Larry McMurtry |
Buffalo Girls (1995) (TV) |
Buffalo Soldiers (1993), Robert O'Connor |
Buffalo Soldiers (2003) |
Bump in the Night (1988), Isabelle Holland |
Bump in the Night (1991) |
The Burglar in the Closet (1978), Lawrence Block |
Burglar (1987) |
El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) (1616–1630), Tirso de Molina |
Don Juan (1926) |
The Burning Hills (1956), Louis L'Amour |
The Burning Hills (1956) |
The Burning Shore (1985), Wilbur Smith |
Burning Shore (1991) |
Burton and Speke (1982), William Harrison |
Mountains of the Moon (1990) |
The Busy Body (1966), Donald E. Westlake |
The Busy Body (1967) |
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1927), Anita Loos |
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) |
BUtterfield 8 (1935), John O'Hara |
BUtterfield 8 (1960) |
By the Great Horn Spoon! (1963), Sid Fleischman |
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967) |