The 2016 Literary Fauxscars: And the Nominees are…

by Melissa Sagendorph

So many novels are made into movies, but it's rare that we get to look at them in comparison with each other, to judge the transition from book to film as an achievement in its own right. So for persnickety readers, movie fans and those who are just happy to see their favorite book turned into a movie, here's a chance to geek out over this year's batch of book-to-movie adaptions. And though we're literary fans first and foremost, we're wiling to admit that the movie is sometimes even as good as the book. We've had our top-secret meetings, evaluated this year's crop of ...