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While The Black List has long been the go-to platform to discover indie scripts and hot new voices, the acclaimed organization is now launching an inaugural Adaptation List to spotlight the novels that industry insiders most want to see adapted for the screen.
These days, novel adaptations have been heating up Hollywood, thanks in no small part to the rise of BookTok. Beloved BookTok authors like Emily Henry and Colleen Hoover have already been slated to have their respective books brought to film and TV, while Taylor Jenkins Reid has been building a franchise of interconnected stories, including “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” “Malibu Rising,” and “Daisy Jones and the Six.” (Reid’s latest novel “Carrie Soto Is Back” is among the books listed by the 2025 Adaptation List, too.)
The Black List founder Franklin Leonard and Creative Director of Fiction Randy Winston surveyed 84 publishing industry editors and literary agents, who selected the 61 novels that they believe are poised for adaptations. All novels had to be published after 2005, when The Black List launched. To note, The Black List team did not gather information about film or TV adaptation rights holders or representatives for this list.
“Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro and “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin are already being made into features, while “Trust” by Hernan Diaz is being adapted into a Max series. The state of the other selections were not made public at this time.
Below are the 61 novels, in alphabetical order, that are most anticipated to be brought to the screen.
“Age of Vice” by Deepti Kapoor
“All Fours” by Miranda July
“All the Sinners Bleed” by S.A. Cosby
“American Marriage” by Tayari Jones
“Ask Again Yes” by Mary Beth Keane
“Beautiful Ruins” by Jess Walter
“The Bee Sting” by Paul Murray
“Beneath a Scarlet Sky” by Mark Sullivan
“Beyond That, The Sea” by Laura Spence Ash
“Big Swiss” by Jen Beagin
“Blackwater Rising” by Attica Locke
“The Boy Wwith a Bird in His Chest” by Emme Lund
“The Bullet Swallower” by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
“Carrie Soto Is Back” by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“Chain Gang All-Stars” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
“Counterfeit” by Kirsten Chen
“Cutting for Stone” by Abraham Verghese
“Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver
“Exit West” by Moshin Hamid
“The Fifth Season” by N. K. Jemisin
“The God of the Woods” by Liz Moore
“Graceling” by Kristin Cashore
“Great Circle” by Maggie Shipstead
“Greta & Valdin” by Rebecca K. Reilly
“The Guest” by Emma Cline
“The Historian” by Elizabeth Kostova
“Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi
“The Immortal King Rao” by Vauhini Vara
“James” by Percival Everret
“Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro
“The Love Songs of W. E. B. DuBois” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
“Lush Life” by Richard Price
“Luster” by Raven Leilani
“Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar
“Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno Garcia
“Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides
“The Monsters of Templeton” by Lauren Groff
“My Sister the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite
“The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern
“Night Film” by Marisha Pessl
“North Woods” by Daniel Mason
“Prep” by Curtis Sittenfeld
“The Rachel Incident” by Caroline O’Donogue
“Razorblade Tears” by S.A. Cosby
“The Safekeep” by Yael van der Wouden
“Salvage the Bones” by Jesmyn Ward
“The Sellout” by Paul Beatty
“Sky Full of Elephants” by Cebo Campbell
“State of Wonder” by Ann Patchett
“The Story of a Marriage” by Andrew Sean Greer
“A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin
“Trust” by Hernan Diaz
“Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley” by Hannah Tinti
“The Verifiers” by Jane Pek
“A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan
“We Ride Upon Sticks” by Quan Barry
“The Wedding People” by Alison Espach
“When We Were Sisters” by Fatimah Asghar
“Your Face in Mine” by Jess Row
“Your House Will Pay” by Steph Cha
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