Books Behind the Screen

If the film's unreliable narrators gripped you, the book cuts even deeper.

The show barely scratches the surface of Sapkowski's richly built world.

The show is superb — the book gives you an extra layer of dark wit.

Atwood's prose is as suffocating as the world it describes.

The show ended. The books haven't — and they go much further.

More jokes, more science, more survival anxiety — in the best way.

Eight seasons of TV can't contain what Gabaldon packed into eight novels.

Jackson's trilogy is a masterpiece — Tolkien's prose is a different kind of magic.

The mini-series is haunting. Flynn's debut novel is even more unsettling.

Villeneuve captured the scale — the book captures the philosophy.