Plus: What's New and Coming Soon in Book-to-Screen 📚 📺
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|  | | The age-old question: Was the book or movie better? For this month’s lineup of recent adaptations, you’ll have to decide for yourself because these books are must-reads. Dive into the stories before you press play with ThriftBooks, where you read more and spend less! | |  | | The Nickel Boys | | by Colson Whitehead | | When Elwood Curtis, a Black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile center known as Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. The adaptation of this widely beloved Pulitzer Prize novel is in theaters Dec. 13. | | Buy now |
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|  | | Joan | | by Joan Hannington | | In 1980s London, Joan Hannington is a harried mother who remakes herself into a jewel thief and the “godmother of crime” in hopes of giving her daughter a better life. Sophie Turner returns to television post-Game of Thrones in the lead role of this The CW adaptation; new episodes drop every Friday. | | Buy now |
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| |  | | | | This movie prompted Mexico City to hold its first Día de Muertos parade.Daniel Craig's salary for this project made him the highest-paid James Bond.The second-longest Bond film ever. | | Answer in footer |
| |  | | | Citadel: Honey Bunny | | The Citadel cinematic universe continues growing with this Indian spinoff about stuntman Honey and actress Bunny and their spy-centric pasts. Premieres Nov. 7 on Prime Video. | | More details |
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| | | Outer Banks | | They're young, they're gorgeous, and they're looking for buried treasure. Season 4 Part 2 premieres Nov. 7. | | More details |
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| | | Countdown: Paul vs. Tyson | | Two out of three episodes of this docuseries air Nov. 7, detailing the lead-up to the live battle royale between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul that Netflix will live stream Nov. 15. | | More details |
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| | |  | | Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light | | Masterpiece on PBS released the first trailer for Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light, which serves as a follow up to 2015 miniseries Wolf Hall and stars Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis. The initial series was based on the first two books in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy, and the upcoming series is an adaptation of the final novel, which was released in 2020. | | View trailer |
| | | | | | Spectre came out on this day in 2015—click here to see where to stream it. |
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