Best Movies for Bibliophiles

Winter is the time for reading books and watching movies that star books! Rank our choices below and tell us about your favorite. We'll present the results in the next issue of The Asylum.

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* 1. Rate your favorite movies starring books.

Doctor Strange (2016) Marvel sorcerer-hero (Benedict Cumberbatch) uses mystical books to control reality.

The Hours (2002) Three women from different generations are linked by Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway.

Capote (2005) Truman Capote becomes fascinated by a grisly small town murder and writes In Cold Blood.

Evil Dead 2 (1987) Teen's accidental reading from the Necronomicon allows evil to enter the world with hilarious and gory results.

Julie and Julia (2009) Blogger cooks every recipe in Julia Child's (Meryl Streep) "Mastering the Art of French Cooking."

The Neverending Story (1984) Boy steals a mystical book from a grumpy bookseller and becomes entangled in the fight against The Nothing. Plus, giant furry dragon!

The Princess Bride (1987) Classic comedy by Rob Reiner where Peter Falk reads a classic romantic fairy tale to his sick grandson while Andre the Giant and Mandy Patinkin fight bad guys.

Fahrenheit 451 (1966) The temperature at which books burst into flame! Ray Bradbury's classic novel brought to the screen.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) Harry discovers a used textbook that gives him powerful and scary new spells.

Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Eccentric Wes Anderson movie about two teens who fall in love and run away—with books!

The Big Sleep (1946) Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlow in an antiquarian bookshop.

The Notebook (2004) Reading from a notebook in which he has documented their lives, man retells their love story to woman as she fades into dementia.

84 Charing Cross Road (1987) New York bibliophile develops a 20-year correspondence with London bookseller in an attempt to find an obscure title.

Goosebumps (2015) Teens unleash monsters from horror writer R.L. Stine's (played by Jack Black) manuscripts.

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* 1. Rate your favorite movies starring books.

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* 2. What's your favorite?