| Non-fiction work(s) | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| 13 Hours (2014), Mitchell Zuckoff | (2016) |
| The Accidental Billionaires (2009), Ben Mezrich | The Social Network (2010) |
| Across the Wide Missouri (1947), Bernard DeVoto | Across the Wide Missouri (1951) |
| Air America (1985), Christopher Robbins | Air America (1990) |
| (1974), Piers Paul Read | (1993) |
| All the President's Men (1974), Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein | All the President's Men (1976) |
| American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005), Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin | Oppenheimer (2023) |
| An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), Oliver Sacks | At First Sight (1999) |
| The Music Never Stopped (2011) |
| And the Band Played On (1987), Randy Shilts | And the Band Played On (1993) |
| Awakenings (1973), Oliver Sacks | Awakenings (1990) |
| The Big Short (2010), Michael Lewis | The Big Short (2015) |
| Black Hawk Down (1999), Mark Bowden | Black Hawk Down (2001) |
| A Brief History of Time (1988), Stephen Hawking | A Brief History of Time (1991) |
| Bringing Down the House (2003), Ben Mezrich | The Last Casino (2004) |
| 21 (2008) |
| The Broken Seal: "Operation Magic" and the Secret Road to Pearl Harbor (1967), Ladislas Farago | Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) |
| Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge (1998), Jim Schutze | Bully (2001) |
| (1995), Nicholas Pileggi | Casino (1995) |
| (2003), George Crile III | Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
| A Civil Action (1996), Jonathan Harr | A Civil Action (1998) |
| Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law (2002), Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler | North Country (2005) |
| The Conquest of Space (1949), Chesley Bonestell & Willy Ley | Conquest of Space (1955) |
| The Dam Busters (1951), Paul Brickhill | The Dam Busters (1954) |
| The Day the World Ended (1969), Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts | When Time Ran Out (1980) |
| Dead Man Walking (1993), Sister Helen Prejean | Dead Man Walking (1995) |
| Dispatches (1977), Michael Herr | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
| Full Metal Jacket (1987) |
| Escape from Alcatraz (1963), J. Campbell Bruce | Escape from Alcatraz (1979) |
| The Execution of Charles Horman: An American Sacrifice (1978), Thomas Hauser | Missing (1982) |
| The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage (1979), Robert Lindsey | The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) |
| Fast Food Nation (2001), Eric Schlosser | Fast Food Nation (2006) |
| The Final Days (1976), Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein | The Final Days (1989) |
| Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer (1984), Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine | Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) (TV) |
| The Flight of Dragons (1979), Peter Dickinson | The Flight of Dragons (1982) (TV) |
| Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), Doris Pilkington Garimara | Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
| Freeing the Whales (1989), Tom Rose | Big Miracle (2012) |
| The French Connection (1969), Robin Moore | The French Connection (1971) |
| (1990), H. G. Bissinger | Friday Night Lights (2004) |
| The Game of Their Lives: The Untold Story of the World Cup's Biggest Upset (1996), Geoffrey Douglas | The Game of Their Lives (2005) |
| The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld (1928), Herbert Asbury | Gangs of New York (2002) |
| The Hindenburg (1972), Michael M. Mooney | The Hindenburg (1975) |
| (1991), David Simon | (2000) (TV) |
| In Cold Blood (1966), Truman Capote | In Cold Blood (1967) |
| Imperial Life in the Emerald City (2006), Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Green Zone (2010) |
| Into the Wild (1996), Jon Krakauer | Into the Wild (2007) |
| Killers of the Flower Moon (2017), David Grann | Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) |
| The Last Days of Patton (1981), Ladislas Farago | The Last Days of Patton (1986) (TV) |
| Lazarus and the Hurricane: The Freeing of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1991), Sam Chaiton and Terry Swinton | The Hurricane (1999) |
| The Longest Day (1959), Cornelius Ryan | The Longest Day (1962) |
| Lost Moon (1994), Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger | Apollo 13 (1995) |
| The Mars Project (1952), Wernher von Braun | Conquest of Space (1955) |
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), Jon Ronson | The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
| Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1994), John Berendt | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) |
| Moneyball (2003), Michael Lewis | Moneyball (2011) |
| The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (2007), Robert M. Edsel and Bret Witter | The Monuments Men (2014) |
| The Mountain Road (1958), Theodore H. White | The Mountain Road (1961) |
| The Mothman Prophecies (1975), John Keel | The Mothman Prophecies (2002) |
| A Night to Remember (1955), Walter Lord | A Night to Remember (1958) |
| Nomadland (2017), Jessica Bruder | Nomadland (2020) |
| Ondskan (The Evil) (1981), Jan Guillou | Evil (2003) |
| The One That Got Away (1956), Kendall Burt and James Leasor | The One That Got Away (1957) |
| The Onion Field (1973), Joseph Wambaugh | The Onion Field (1979) |
| The Orchid Thief (1998), Susan Orlean | Adaptation. (2002) |
| Patton: Ordeal and Triumph (1963), Ladislas Farago | Patton (1970) |
| The Perfect Storm (1997), Sebastian Junger | The Perfect Storm (2000) |
| Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring, 1953 (1956), S. L. A. Marshall | Pork Chop Hill (1959) |
| Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much (1978), Robert Daley | Prince of the City (1981) |
| The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist (2009), Matt Baglio | The Rite (2011) |
| The Saga of Billy the Kid (1925), Walter Noble Burns | Billy the Kid (1930) |
| Billy the Kid (1941) |
| The Outlaw (1943) |
| The Left Handed Gun (1958) |
| Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) |
| Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid (1989) (TV) |
| The Sea Around Us (1951), Rachel Carson | The Sea Around Us (1953) |
| A Season on the Brink (1986), John Feinstein | A Season on the Brink (2002) |
| The Secret Life of Plants (1973), Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird | The Secret Life of Plants (1979) |
| The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985), Wade Davis | The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) |
| The Smartest Guys in the Room (2003), Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind | (2005) |
| The Story of Mankind (1921), Hendrik Willem van Loon | The Story of Mankind (1957) |
| Storyville, New Orleans (1974), Al Rose | Pretty Baby (1978) |
| Ten Days that Shook the World (1919), John Reed | (1928) |
| Reds (1981) |
| Red Bells (1982) |
| Ten Rillington Place (1961), Ludovic Kennedy | 10 Rillington Place (1971) |
| The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley | The Three Faces of Eve (1957) |
| (1987), Daniel Topolski | True Blue (1996) |
| The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero, Maxwell Anderson | The Wrong Man (1956) |
| The Turning Point (1982), Fritjof Capra | Mindwalk (1990) |
| Twelve Days of Terror (2001), Richard G. Fernicola | 12 Days of Terror (2004) |
| Voyage of the Damned (1974), Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts | Voyage of the Damned (1976) |
| We Were Soldiers Once... And Young (1992), Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway | We Were Soldiers (2002) |
| Zodiac (1986), Robert Graysmith | Zodiac (2007) | |
| Book | Subject | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| (1982), Marty Jezer | Abbie Hoffman | Steal This Movie! (2000) |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), Irving Stone | Michelangelo | The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) |
| Aimée & Jaguar. Eine Liebesgeschichte, Berlin 1943 (1994), Erica Fischer | Lilly Wust and Felice Schragenheim | Aimée & Jaguar (1999) |
| Blow: How a Small- Town Boy Made $100 Million With the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All (1993), Bruce Porter | George Jung | Blow (2001) |
| Camille Claudel: 1864-1943 (1988), Reine-Marie Paris | Camille Claudel | Camille Claudel (1988) |
| Carve Her Name with Pride (1956), R.J. Minney | Violette Szabo | Carve Her Name with Pride (1958) |
| (1985), David Robinson | Charles Chaplin | Chaplin (1992) |
| Diamond Jim Brady (1933), Parker Morrell | Diamond Jim Brady | Diamond Jim (1935) |
| (1983), Hayden Herrera | Frida Kahlo | Frida (2002) |
| The General (1995), Paul Williams | Martin Cahill | The General (1998) |
| The Great Impostor (1959), Robert Crichton | Ferdinand Waldo Demara | The Great Impostor (1961) |
| The Honest Courtesan (1992), Margaret Rosenthal | Veronica Franco | Dangerous Beauty (1998) |
| (1989), Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith | Jackson Pollock | Pollock (2000) |
| Joe Gould's Secret (1965), Joseph Mitchell | Joe Gould | Joe Gould's Secret (2000) |
| Inside Hitler's Bunker (2002), Joachim Fest | Adolf Hitler | Der Untergang (Downfall) (2004) |
| The Life and Times of Cleopatra (1958), by Charles Marie Franzero | Cleopatra | Cleopatra (1963) |
| Magic Fire: The Story of Wagner's Life and Music (1954), Bertita Harding | Richard Wagner | Magic Fire (1954) |
| The Man Who Was Peter Pan (1998 play), Allan Knee | J. M. Barrie | Finding Neverland (2004) |
| (2001), Antonia Fraser | Marie Antoinette | Marie Antoinette (2006) |
| Our Sunshine (1991), Robert Drewe | Ned Kelly | Ned Kelly (2003) |
| Savage Messiah (1931), H. S. Ede | Henri Gaudier-Brzeska | Savage Messiah (1972) |
| (1999), Laura Hillenbrand | Seabiscuit | Seabiscuit (2003) |
| Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony (2002), Gary Stephen Ross | Brian Molony | Owning Mahowny (2003) |
| Triumph Over Pain (1940), René Fülöp-Miller | William T. G. Morton | The Great Moment (1944) |
| Truman (1992), David McCullough | Harry S. Truman | Truman (1995) |
| Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career (1997), George Plimpton | Truman Capote | Infamous (2006) |
| Viva Villa! (1933), Edgecumb Pinchon & Odo B. Stade | Pancho Villa | Viva Villa! (1934) |
| Wallace: The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace (1968), Marshall Frady | George Wallace | George Wallace (1997) |
| The White Rabbit (1952), Bruce Marshall | F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas | The White Rabbit (1967) (TV) (mini) |
| The Wild Boy of Aveyron (1802), Jean Marc Gaspard Itard | Victor of Aveyron | The Wild Child (French: L'Enfant Sauvage) (1970) |
| (1984), Bob Woodward | John Belushi | Wired (1989) |
| Wiseguy (1985), Nicholas Pileggi | Henry Hill | Goodfellas (1990) | |
| Book | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| 84, Charing Cross Road (1970), Helene Hanff | 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) |
| Act One (1959), Moss Hart | Act One (1963) |
| (1971), Spike Milligan | Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1972) |
| American Sniper (2012), Chris Kyle | American Sniper (2014) |
| Angela's Ashes (1996), Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes (1999) |
| Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (2004), Nick Flynn | Being Flynn (2012) |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), Malcolm X and Alex Haley | Malcolm X (1992) |
| The Basketball Diaries (1978), Jim Carroll | The Basketball Diaries (1995) |
| Before Night Falls (1992), Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls (2000) |
| Belles on Their Toes (1950), Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey | Belles on Their Toes (1952) |
| Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2004), Aron Ralston | 127 Hours (2010) |
| Born on the Fourth of July (1976), Ron Kovic | Born on the Fourth of July (1989) |
| Bound for Glory (1943), Woody Guthrie | Bound for Glory (1976) |
| Bravo Two Zero (1993), Andy McNab | Bravo Two Zero (1999) |
| Breaking the Surface (1996), Greg Louganis | (1997) (TV) |
| (1997), Johnny Cash | Walk the Line (2005) |
| Castaway (1983), Lucy Irvine | Castaway (1986) |
| Catch Me If You Can (1980), Frank Abagnale | Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
| Cheaper by the Dozen (1948), Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey | Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) |
| Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) |
| Chopper (1991–2011) (series), Mark Brandon Read | Chopper (2000) |
| Crazy (1999), Benjamin Lebert | Crazy (2000) |
| Day of the Stranger (1989), Novalyne Price Ellis | The Whole Wide World (1996) |
| The Devil's Double (2003), Latif Yahia | The Devil's Double (2011) |
| The Devil's Workshop (Komando padělatelů) (1983), Adolf Burger | The Counterfeiters (2007) |
| A Diary of A Demonstrator (1983), Soe Hok Gie | Gie (2005) |
| The Diary of a Young Girl (German: Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 – 1 Augustus 1944, The Annex: Diary Notes from 12 June 1942 – 1 August 1944) (1947), Anne Frank | The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) |
| Diary of Anne Frank (Dutch; Flemish: Dagboek van Anne Frank) (1962) (TV) |
| The Diary of Anne Frank (1967) (TV) |
| (1979) (TV) |
| The Diary of Anne Frank (1980) (TV) |
| The Diary of Anne Frank (Dutch; Flemish: Het dagboek van Anne Frank) (1985) |
| (1995) |
| (2001) (TV) (mini) |
| The Diary of Anne Frank (German: Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank) (2016) |
| Where Is Anne Frank (2021) |
| The Disaster Artist (2013), Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell | The Disaster Artist (2017) |
| (1988), Joseph D. Pistone | Donnie Brasco (1997) |
| Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot: The Autobiography of a Dangerous Man (1989), John Callahan | Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018) |
| Elegy for Iris (1999), John Bayley | Iris (2001) |
| Enemy Coast Ahead (1946), Guy Gibson | The Dam Busters (1954) |
| Carandiru Station (Portuguese: Estação Carandiru) (2001), Drauzio Varella | Carandiru (2003) |
| Fair Game (2007), Valerie Plame | Fair Game (2010) |
| Finding Fish (2001), Antwone Quenton Fisher | Antwone Fisher (2002) |
| Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990), Ben Carson | (2009) (TV) |
| Girl, Interrupted (1993), Susanna Kaysen | Girl, Interrupted (1999) |
| A Gloomy Soliloquy (1946), Olavi Paavolainen | Sign of the Beast (1981) |
| Gorillas in the Mist (1983), Dian Fossey | Gorillas in the Mist (1988) |
| Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg (1992), Barry Williams | Growing Up Brady (2000) (TV) |
| , Gypsy Rose Lee | Gypsy (1962) |
| Gypsy (1993) (TV) |
| Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman (2005), Jamie Reidy | Love & Other Drugs (2010) |
| Hideous Kinky (1992), Esther Freud | Hideous Kinky (1998) |
| Highest Duty (2009), Sully Sullenberger | Sully (2016) |
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2001), Toby Young | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) |
| I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! (1932), Robert Elliott Burns | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Maya Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979) (TV) |
| I, Tina (1986), Tina Turner | What's Love Got to Do with It (1993) |
| I Was Hitler Youth Salomon (German: Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon) (1990), Solomon Perel | Europa Europa (1990) |
| I'll Cry Tomorrow (1954), Lillian Roth | I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) |
| Iron & Silk (1986), Mark Salzman | Iron & Silk (1990) |
| Jarhead (2003), Anthony Swofford | Jarhead (2005) |
| Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (2005), Julie Powell | Julie & Julia (2009) |
| Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Billie Holiday | Lady Sings the Blues (1972) |
| The Learning Tree (1964), Gordon Parks | The Learning Tree (1969) |
| Leaving Las Vegas (1990), John O'Brien | Leaving Las Vegas (1995) |
| Life Is Not a Fairy Tale (2005), Fantasia Barrino | Life Is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006) (TV) |
| (1949), Elyesa Bazna | Listen to the Voices of the Sea (1950) |
| Live from Baghdad (1991), Robert Wiener | Live from Baghdad (2002) |
| Lone Survivor (2007), Marcus Lutrell | Lone Survivor (2013) |
| The Man-eaters of Tsavo (1907), John Henry Patterson | Bwana Devil (1952) |
| The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) |
| (1975), Johnny Cash | Walk the Line (2005) |
| Marley & Me (2005), John Grogan | Marley & Me (2008) |
| Midnight Express (1977), Billy Hayes | Midnight Express (1978) |
| A Mighty Heart (2003), Mariane Pearl | A Mighty Heart (2007) |
| Mommie Dearest (1978), Christina Crawford | Mommie Dearest (1981) |
| The Motorcycle Diaries (Spanish; Castilian: Diarios de motocicleta) (1995), Che Guevara | The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) |
| Mr. Nice (1996), Howard Marks | Mr Nice (2010) |
| Murder, Inc. (1951), Burton Turkus | Murder, Inc. (1960) |
| My Autobiography (1964), Charlie Chaplin | Chaplin (1992) |
| My Dog Skip (1995), Willie Morris | My Dog Skip (2000) |
| My Early Life A Roving Commission (1930), Winston Churchill
| Young Winston (1972) |
| My Father and Myself (1968), J. R. Ackerley | Secret Orchards (1979) |
| My Left Foot (1954), Christy Brown | My Left Foot (1989) |
| My Life in France (2006), Julia Child | Julie & Julia (2009) |
| My Posse Don't Do Homework (1992), LouAnne Johnson | Dangerous Minds (1995) |
| My Week with Marilyn (2000), Colin Clark | My Week with Marilyn (2011) |
| The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Quentin Crisp | The Naked Civil Servant (1975) (TV) |
| Never Cry Wolf (1963), Farley Mowat | Never Cry Wolf (1983) |
| Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair (1978), Elizabeth McNeill | 9½ Weeks (1986) |
| One Who Walked Alone (1986), Novalyne Price Ellis | same as above |
| Operation Cicero (German: Der Fall Cicero) (1950), Ludwig Carl Moyzisch | 5 Fingers (1952) |
| Our Cancer Year (1994), Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner | American Splendor (2003) |
| Out of Africa (1937), Karen Blixen | Out of Africa (1985) |
| Papillon (1969), Henri Charrière | Papillon (1973) |
| Papillon (2017) |
| Permanent Midnight (1995), Jerry Stahl | Permanent Midnight (1998) |
| The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy (1981), Elizabeth Kendall | Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) |
| The Pianist (1946), Władysław Szpilman | The Pianist (2002) |
| Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957), Jean Kerr | Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) |
| Pour en finir avec Octobre (1982), Francis Simard | Octobre (1994) |
| Prisoners are People (1952), Kenyon J. Scudder | Unchained (1955) |
| Private Parts (1993), Howard Stern | Private Parts (1997) |
| Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four (1990), Gerry Conlon | In the Name of the Father (1993) |
| Prozac Nation (1994), Elizabeth Wurtzel | Prozac Nation (2001) |
| , Jake LaMotta | Raging Bull (1980) |
| Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985), Alan Dershowitz | Reversal of Fortune (1990) |
| Riding in Cars with Boys (1992), Beverly D'Onofrio | Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) |
| Rocket Boys (1998), Homer Hickam | October Sky (1999) |
| Rogue Trader: How I Brought Down Barings Bank and Shook the Financial World (1995), Nick Leeson | Rogue Trader (1999) |
| A Rumor of War (1977), Philip Caputo | A Rumor of War (1980) (TV) (mini) |
| Running with Scissors (2002), Augusten Burroughs | Running with Scissors (2006) |
| See No Evil (2003), Robert Baer | Syriana (2005) |
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926), T. E. Lawrence | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
| (1990) |
| Seven Years in Tibet (1997) |
| Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (2003), Roméo Dallaire | Shake Hands with the Devil (2007) |
| The Short-Timers (1979), Gustav Hasford | Full Metal Jacket (1987) |
| The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music (2008), Steve Lopez | The Soloist (2009) |
| Somebody Up There Likes Me (1955), Rocky Graziano | Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) |
| The Story of My Life (1903), Helen Keller | The Miracle Worker (1962) |
| The Miracle Worker (1979) (TV) |
| (1981) (TV) |
| The Miracle Worker (2000) (TV) |
| Black (2005) |
| Soul Surfer (2011) |
| The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (1949), Maria von Trapp | The Trapp Family (German: Die Trapp-Familie) (1956) |
| The Trapp Family in America (German: Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika) (1958) |
| The Sound of Music (1965) |
| The Strawberry Statement (1969), James Simon Kunen | The Strawberry Statement (1970) |
| A Tale of Love and Darkness (2002), Amos Oz | A Tale of Love and Darkness (2012) |
| The Taliban Shuffle (2011), Kim Barker | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) |
| A Taste of My Own Medicine (1988), Edward Rosenbaum | The Doctor (1991) |
| Then They Came for Me (2011), Maziar Bahari | Rosewater (2014) |
| To America with Love (1976), Abbie Hoffman | Steal This Movie! (2000) |
| Touching the Void (1988), Joe Simpson | Touching the Void (2003) |
| Truth and Duty: The Press, the President and the Privilege of Power (2005), Mary Mapes | Truth (2015) |
| Tuesdays with Morrie (1997), Mitch Albom | Tuesdays with Morrie (1999) |
| Twelve Years a Slave (1853), Solomon Northup | Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984) (TV) |
| 12 Years a Slave (2013) |
| UFO Crash at Roswell (1991), Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt | Roswell (1994) |
| Under the Tuscan Sun (1996), Frances Mayes | Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) |
| The Walton Experience (1978), Travis Walton | Fire in the Sky (1993) |
| Wild (2012), Cheryl Strayed | Wild (2014) |
| The Wolf of Wall Street (2007), Jordan Belfort | The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) |
| Yes Man (2005), Danny Wallace | Yes Man (2008) | |
| Essay/article | Film adaptation(s) |
|---|
| "Adventures in the Ransom Trade", William Prochnau, Vanity Fair | Proof of Life (2000) |
| "The Allman Brothers Story",[1] Cameron Crowe and Faybeth Diamond, Rolling Stone, December 6, 1973 | Almost Famous (2000) |
| "The Ballad of the Urban Cowboy: America's Search for True Grit", Aaron Latham, Esquire, 1978 | Urban Cowboy (1980) |
| "Biker Boyz", Michael Gougis, New Times LA, April 2000 | Biker Boyz (2003) |
| "The boys in the bank: A fouled-up holdup moves step by step from threats to farce to violence", P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore, Life, September 22, 1972[2] | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
| "A Butler Well Served by This Election", Wil Haygood, The Washington Post, 2008 | The Butler (2013) |
| "The Death and Life of Dith Pran", Sydney Schanberg, The New York Times Magazine, January 20, 1980 | The Killing Fields (1984) |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson, based on two-part series in Rolling Stone, 1971 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1997) |
| "The Flash of Genius", John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 1993 | Flash of Genius (2008) |
| "The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran", Joshuah Bearman, Wired, 2007 | Argo (2012) |
| "Jerry and Marge Go Large", Jason Fagone, The Huffington Post, 2018 | Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022) |
| "Life's Swell", Susan Orlean, Outside, 1998 | Blue Crush (2002) |
| "The Man Who Knew Too Much", Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair, 1996 | The Insider (1999) |
| "Mark of a Murderer", Mike McAlary, Esquire, 1997 | City by the Sea (2002) |
| "The Muse of the Coyote Ugly", Elizabeth Gilbert, GQ, March 1997 | Coyote Ugly (2000) |
| "Nazi Spies in America", Leon G. Turrou, New York Post, December 5, 1938 – January 4, 1939[3] | Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) |
| "Racer X", Ken Li, Vibe, 1998 | The Fast and the Furious (2001) |
| "Shattered Glass", Buzz Bissinger, Vanity Fair, 1998 | Shattered Glass (2003) |
| "Someone to Lean On", Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated, December 16, 1996 | Radio (2003) |
| "Something's Got To Give", Darcy Frey, The New York Times Magazine | Pushing Tin (1999) |
| "To See and Not See",[4] Oliver Sacks | At First Sight (1999) |
| Tora! Tora | Tora!, Gordon W. Prange, Reader's Digest, October–November 1963 | Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) |
|---|
| "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", Nik Cohn, New York, 1976 | Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
| "The Worst Marriage in Georgetown", Franklin Foer, The New York Times Magazine, July 6, 2012 | Georgetown (2019) | |
