Hollywood has apparently decided that reading is its job now, and honestly? Fine by us. The next wave of book-to-screen adaptations is stacked: a John Steinbeck classic getting the prestige miniseries treatment, a cyberpunk bible that spent four decades in development purgatory, a BookTok phenomenon, and not one but two shows premiering on the same day in July. (It's like Barbenheimer, for book nerds.)
With so many great book adaptations on the horizon, we've rounded up the series that should take streaming by storm. Here's where each one lands on our anticipation scale, from quietly optimistic to blocking out the weekend.
9 'I Will Find You'
Release Date: June 18, 2026
Image via NetflixAt this point, a Harlan Coben novel without a Netflix adaptation is the anomaly. The latest output stars Sam Worthington as David Burroughs, a man serving life for the murder of his three-year-old son. The hook, in classic Coben fashion, is brutal and efficient: a photo surfaces suggesting the boy might still be alive, which means David has to break out of prison to find him. Severance's Britt Lower plays Rachel, his ex-sister-in-law and a former reporter, with Milo Ventimiglia as her ex.
So why is this ranked last? Because Coben adaptations are the comfort food of streaming thrillers. We know exactly what we're getting (eight episodes, a twist every 40 minutes, at least one character who is not who they seem), and we'll devour all of it in a weekend. It’s comfort TV – at least, as comforting as a story about a missing child’s case can be. And it drops on the streamer on June 18.
8 'The Five-Star Weekend'
Release Date: July 9, 2026
Image via PeacockElin Hilderbrand's Nantucket novels were built for this. Jennifer Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a food blogger and bestselling author whose picture-perfect life craters when her husband dies, so she does what any of us would do with a beach house and unresolved grief: she invites one friend from each phase of her life for a luxurious island weekend. The supporting cast is an embarrassment of riches, with Regina Hall, Chloë Sevigny, Gemma Chan, D'Arcy Carden, Judy Greer, and Timothy Olyphant all wandering around the New England coastline in what we assume is excellent knitwear.
The tricky part is that Hilderbrand's books run on interiority – all those simmering resentments and decades-old secrets the women are too polite to say out loud. Stretching that across eight episodes means the show will need an actual plot where the novel had vibes and lobster rolls. Then again, Bekah Brunstetter created the series, and if anyone can make quiet feelings devastating on screen, it's a This Is Us alum.
7 'Little House on the Prairie'
Release Date: July 9, 2026
Image via NetflixNetflix is so confident in its Little House on the Prairie reboot that it renewed the show for Season 2 before a single episode aired. Young Alice Halsey takes over as Laura Ingalls, with Luke Bracey and Crosby Fitzgerald as Charles and Caroline, and showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine (The Boys, The Vampire Diaries) steering the wagon. All eight episodes drop at once, presumably so you can sob through the entire frontier in one sitting.
Rebooting Little House means competing with two beloved sources at the same time: Laura Ingalls Wilder's books and the 1974 series that lives rent-free in several generations' hearts. Sonnenshine has to thread a needle here, honoring the homestead warmth people are showing up for while reckoning with the parts of Wilder's frontier mythology that have aged like unrefrigerated butter. If the show pulls it off, Netflix has an intergenerational hit. If it doesn't, Michael Landon's ghost will probably haunt her.
6 'Boys of Tommen'
Release Date: 2027
Image via Amazon StudiosIf you've been anywhere near BookTok in the last three years, you already know about Prime Video's latest romance bet. Chloe Walsh's Irish YA saga has sold staggering numbers on the strength of its central pairing: Johnny Kavanagh, a rugby prodigy hiding a career-threatening injury, and Shannon Lynch, the shy new girl at Tommen College with a violent home life she tells no one about. Season 1 will adapt the first two books, with newcomer Nancy Surridge as Shannon and Conor Sánchez as Johnny. Poppy Cogan, who handled A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, is lead writer, and Walsh herself is executive producing.
The release is likely a 2027 situation, so why does it rank this high? Because the fandom is rabid and the casting announcement alone generated the kind of online frenzy most marketing departments would sell a kidney for. The challenge will be tone. These books wrap genuinely dark material (domestic abuse, trauma) inside a swoony sports romance, and getting that balance wrong in either direction would sink it. The Summer I Turned Pretty comparisons are already flying, but Walsh's books are made of heavier stuff.
Collider Exclusive · The Sorting Hat Awaits Which Hogwarts House Are You? Gryffindor · Slytherin · Hufflepuff · Ravenclaw
Four houses. One destiny. The Sorting Hat has considered thousands of students — now it's your turn. Answer honestly and discover where you truly belong at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
🦁Gryffindor
🐍Slytherin
🦡Hufflepuff
🦅Ravenclaw
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01
What quality do you value most in yourself? Answer as honestly as you can — the Hat always knows.
ACourage — I act even when I'm afraid, because what's right matters more than what's safe. BAmbition — I know what I want and I have the drive and cunning to get there. CLoyalty — I show up for the people I love, no matter what it costs me. DWisdom — I think before I act and I'm always hungry to understand more.
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02
A friend is being treated unfairly. What do you do? How you protect others says everything about who you are.
AStep in immediately and confront whoever is responsible — I won't stand by. BWork out the best strategy to address it — a smart move beats a rash one. CBe by their side, support them, and help them through it however they need. DAnalyse what's actually happening and find the most reasoned, fair solution.
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03
What does success look like to you? What you're working toward defines who you're becoming.
ABeing remembered as someone who fought for what was right, whatever the odds. BAchieving the goals I set for myself — influence, status, and earned respect. CA life where the people I care about know I was there for them, always. DMastering my field, contributing something meaningful, and never stopping learning.
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04
What is your greatest fear? Fear is the most honest thing about a person.
ABeing a coward when it mattered — looking back and knowing I did nothing. BMediocrity — fading into obscurity without making my mark on the world. CLosing the people I love or letting them down when they needed me most. DIgnorance — being wrong and not knowing it, or never reaching my potential.
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05
The rules say no. Your gut says go. What do you do? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
ABreak the rules — if it's the right thing to do, no rule should stop me. BFind a way to get what I want without getting caught. Rules are guidelines. CProbably follow the rules — but I'd find a way to help within them if I could. DThink it through carefully — is the rule unjust, or is my gut just impatient?
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What kind of friend are you? Who you are to the people you love is who you really are.
AThe protector — I will go to the ends of the earth for the people I care about. BThe strategist — I give sharp advice and I'm the one who figures out how to fix things. CThe constant — I'm always there, always reliable, and I never make it about me. DThe guide — I help people think things through and see perspectives they've missed.
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07
You look into the Mirror of Erised. What do you see? The mirror shows the deepest desire of your heart.
AYourself standing victorious, having faced the greatest challenge and won. BYourself at the height of your power — respected, successful, and in control. CYourself surrounded by everyone you love, whole and happy and together. DYourself with all the answers — every book read, every mystery solved.
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The Sorting Hat pauses. It whispers: "You could do well in any house. But what matters most to you — truly?" This is your tiebreaker. The Hat always listens.
ABravery. I want to be the kind of person who acts when others won't. BGreatness. I want to leave my mark and be more than ordinary. CBelonging. I want to be part of something good and never let my people down. DUnderstanding. I want to know the truth of things and keep growing forever.
REVEAL MY HOUSE →
The Sorting Hat Speaks Your House Has Been Chosen
After careful deliberation, the Sorting Hat has made its decision. This is the house your values, your instincts, and your particular way of being in the world were made for.
🦁 Gryffindor
You have nerve. Not the reckless kind, but the deep, quiet courage that shows up even when you're terrified — especially then.
- Gryffindors don't act because they're fearless — they act because they understand that some things are worth being afraid for.
- You stand up for people when it would be easier to look away.
- You charge toward what's right even when the odds are terrible.
- Harry, Hermione, Ron — the heroes of Hogwarts's greatest chapter — all called the tower with the scarlet and gold home. And now, so do you.
🐍 Slytherin
You are driven, sharp, and utterly clear-eyed about what you want and how to get there.
- Slytherin has long been misunderstood — painted as the house of villains when it is, at its best, the house of those who refuse to accept limits placed on them by others.
- You are resourceful, strategic, and you play the long game.
- You know your worth. You protect your own fiercely.
- The dungeon common room with its view of the Black Lake is yours — and the ambitions that will take you further than anyone expects are yours too.
🦡 Hufflepuff
You are the kind of person that makes the world genuinely better just by being in it.
- Hufflepuff is not the "safe" house or the "leftover" house — it is the house of those with the greatest heart and the most unwavering integrity.
- You show up. You work hard. You don't need glory or recognition — you do what's right because it's right.
- Your loyalty never wavers, even when tested.
- Nymphadora Tonks, Cedric Diggory, Newt Scamander — some of the wizarding world's finest. And now you join them.
🦅 Ravenclaw
Your mind is your greatest gift, and you've always known it.
- Ravenclaws are the thinkers, the questioners, the ones who find a puzzle irresistible and a good book better company than most people.
- Ravenclaw is not merely about intelligence — it's about the love of learning, the pursuit of truth, and the rare courage to admit you don't know something yet.
- You see the world with unusual clarity and depth.
- Luna Lovegood, Filius Flitwick, Rowena Ravenclaw herself — all extraordinary, all original. And so are you.
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5 'Lucky'
Release Date: July 15, 2026
Lucky is a rare show where the premise and the lead feel like they were designed for each other. In this adaptation of Marissa Stapley's Reese's Book Club hit, Anya Taylor-Joy plays Lucky Armstrong, a grifter raised in the life who tried to leave it behind and now has to get her hands dirty one last time to escape her past. The supporting lineup is genuinely absurd: Annette Bening as a dangerous mob boss, Timothy Olyphant as Lucky's father, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as the agent on her tail, and Outer Banks' Drew Starkey as her husband. Jonathan Tropper (Banshee) co-runs the show, with Reese Witherspoon producing through Hello Sunshine.
Episodes roll out weekly from July 15, which Apple TV clearly hopes will make this the appointment summer caper. The con-woman-on-the-run genre is well-trodden territory, and the show will live or die on whether it finds a register beyond "stylish heists, daddy issues." But Taylor-Joy trying to outrun an Annette Bening crime matriarch while solving a missing persons' mystery? We're not made of stone, people.
4 'Carrie'
Release Date: October 2026
Image via United ArtistsMike Flanagan adapting Stephen King is a known quantity at this point (Doctor Sleep, The Life of Chuck), but giving him King's very first novel, the one about the bullied telekinetic teen and the prom that becomes a crime scene, feels like a full-circle event. Summer Howell steps into Carrie White's blood-soaked shoes, Flanagan regular Samantha Sloyan plays her terrifying mother Margaret, and Matthew Lillard appears as Principal Grayle. Prime Video's eight-episode series has already wrapped and is aiming for an October release, because of course it is.
Here's the rub: Brian De Palma's 1976 film is one of the greatest horror adaptations ever made, and Sissy Spacek's face at that prom is permanently tattooed on the genre. Flanagan also has to stretch a famously slim novel, told partly through fictional news clippings and committee reports, into eight full hours. His track record suggests he'll expand the emotional architecture rather than pad the plot, and Carrie's story of a bullied girl pushed past her limit has only gotten more relevant since 1974. Expect tears with all the blood, because, well, it's a Flanagan joint.
3 'Neuromancer'
Release Date: Fall 2026
Image via AppleTVWilliam Gibson's 1984 novel popularized the word "cyberspace," predicted huge swaths of our online existence, and resisted every single attempt to film it for forty years. Directors came and went. Scripts died in drawers. Now Apple TV has finally cracked the vault, with Callum Turner as Case, a burned-out hacker dragged into one last job, and Briana Middleton as Molly, the mirror-eyed assassin who recruits him. Mark Strong, Peter Sarsgaard, and Clémence Poésy round out the cast.
The anticipation here is the nervous kind. Neuromancer's prose is famously dense and hallucinatory, and the book's imagined future has been so thoroughly strip-mined by The Matrix, Blade Runner sequels, and three decades of cyberpunk imitators that the original risks looking like a copy of its own copies. But Apple TV has quietly become the best sci-fi shop in streaming (Severance, Silo, Foundation), and if any platform can make the matrix feel new again, it's this one. Look for this one later this year.
2 'East of Eden'
Release Date: Fall 2026
Image via NetflixZoe Kazan spent years writing Netflix's seven-episode take on Steinbeck's 1952 doorstop, and her big swing is the whole point: the story is told primarily through Cathy Ames, the novel's seductive, murderous enigma, played by Florence Pugh. The surrounding casting is sicko-level good. Christopher Abbott as Adam Trask, Mike Faist as his brother Charles, Joseph Zada as Cal, plus Ciarán Hinds, Tracy Letts, and Martha Plimpton.
Garth Davis directs the first four episodes due later this fall, and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre takes the final three. Steinbeck wrote Cathy as something close to pure evil, a "monster" by the book's own description, and the 1955 James Dean film only covered the novel's final act, leaving most of her story on the page. Centering the adaptation on her is either a brilliant correction or a structural gamble that collapses the novel's generational sweep. We’ll be seated either way.
1 'Pride & Prejudice'
Release Date: Fall 2026
Image via NetflixNetflix's six-part Pride & Prejudice has assembled a creative team that feels lab-engineered to break the internet: Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet, Jack Lowden as Mr. Darcy, and Olivia Colman presumably preparing to steal every scene as the marriage-obsessed Mrs. Bennet, with Rufus Sewell as her long-suffering husband. Corrin is also executive producing, and the first teaser sent the yearning corners of the internet into open meltdown.
Every new adaptation inherits the same problem. The 1995 BBC series gave us Colin Firth winning a wet T-shirt contest and the 2005 film gave us the hand flex. Any new version will be litigated frame by frame against both. But six episodes also mean there's room for everything the two-hour film version had to cut. The yearnaissance arrives this fall.
Pride & Prejudice
Network Netflix
Directors Euros Lyn
Writers Dolly Alderton, Jane Austen
English (US) ·