10 Books Turned Into Films Released This Summer

The Huffington Post has has provided a list of ten film adaptations of best selling books to be released this summer. Thank goodness we have some quality films in addition to the usual summer superhero/vampire/zombie blockbusters.  Check out more about each book and film on the Huffington Post site. In the meantime, here is a quick list of the books:

1. Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
2. Heroic Measures, Jill Ciment
3. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Jesse Andrews
4. A Slight Trick of the Mind, Mitch Cullin
5. Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
6. Paper Towns, John Green
7. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
8. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace, David Lipsky
9. Black Mass, Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill
10. Every Secret Thing, Laura Lippman

From the Huff Post: 21 Book From the Past 5 Years Every Woman Should Read

Huffington Post has compiled a list of powerful books published in recent years they suggest every woman should read. The list includes Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng, and Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell.

We're only one into the list (Wild), but we here at Beyond the Cover will be catching up on some of these. Let us know which ones you've read and your thoughts on them.