The Black Castle or The Book of Shadows.

The Thrawn Trilogy.

I'd write my own book and then make the movie. Then I would have more money. I think I would choose 1984 or The Great Good Thing.

anything written by saroyan

something inspiring like the alchemist by paul coehlo or lyrical like 100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez or a fun sci fi flick like enders game by orson scott card. so hard to choose.

The Janet Evanovich "Stephanie Plum" novels. Also a little known book called, "If Thoughts Could Kill." It was a great book and would really fit today's culture!

Stranger in a Strange Land

Great question. I would make Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth into a movie.

I would have James Burke (of "Connections", "The Day The Universe Changed" and "After The Warming" fame do another television miniseries. Episode 1: The Neutrino by Isaac Asimov - one of the best explanations of science, the scientific method and what constitutes a scientific hypothesis, theory or law. Episode 2: Up the Long Ladder by Richard Dawkins - explaining why evolution is THE central theory organizing almost all of our knowledge about biology, geology, cosmology, genetics, etc. Episode 3: Quantum Reality by Nick Herbert - explaining the quantum measurement problem and its philosophical implications for our understanding of our world. Episode 4: Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (with material from other sources) - explaining how our minds ACTUALLY work. We are NOT the rational unified beings that we and our culture pretend we are. Episode 5: What the Bleep we DO know, based on work by Nicholas Taleb (Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan Effect) - explaining how people get suckered by nonsense like astrology, The Secret, get-rich-quick schemes, etc. Episode 6: Synthesis - putting the previous 5 episodes into an overall package, illustrating how the Universe actually works, and how our faulty human minds fail to grasp that. . . .

Are you there God, it's me Margaret?

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary..it would be far more entertaining than many films we're offered these days. "Dumb and Dumber" seems to be the goal...or "Scared to Death"..either way, I'd prefer the Dictionary! Happy Monday! :)

The Halfings Gem By R.A. Salvatore followed by every other book in the Drizzt Do'urden saga

A Place Called Here - Cecilia Ahern Or When Nietzsche Wept - a decent version of this to make my boyfriend happy.

The Bhagvad Geeta.

'Wild Mary' about Mary Wesley's life.

"The Firstborn Series" written by Karen Kingsburg