Top 5 Wednesday is a great feature created by GingerReadsLainey and hosted by ThoughtsonTomes. To find out more about Top 5 Wednesday and the upcoming topics, check out its Goodreads page. This week, in honour of autumn TV it’s all about those books we’d love to see adapted for TV. Here’s the five books I think would make great TV shows.
Five Ghosts by Frank J. Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham
This is a comic series about an adventurer kind of like Indiana Jones but he has this stone embedded in his chest which grants him the powers of five ghosts, or rather the ghosts take over when he needs it most. It’s very pulp-fictiony and would make a great adventure TV show because it’s full of supernatural elements, archaeology and bad guys.
Sabriel by Garth Nix
The Old Kingdom series would make such a good TV series! It’s all about a young girl who inherits her father’s legacy of sending the dead back where they came from. It’s magical and creepy and set in a different world to ours. It’s a rich world so having it as a TV show would be a lot better than a film.
The Passage by Justin Cronin
This would be a great TV Show for fans of The Walking Dead and The Strain. Most of the story is set in a post-apocalyptic future where a disease has pretty much wiped out everyone and those who are left have to struggle to survive against creatures that are pretty much vampires. The interesting thing about The Passage is that because it’s set a good 100 years after the breakout of the virus, the characters don’t know what life was like before, there’s no nostalgia just a sense of getting on with life the best they can.
Emancipated by M.G. Reyes
This would be a show would be full of the usual high school tropes because it’s a bunch of teenagers living together but also have an air of mystery as to why some of them have been emancipated and there’d be secrets and lies to uncover.
Geezer Girls by Dreda Say Mitchell
A crime TV show about some women who were once under the control of a London gangster but now try to live their own lives until that gangster comes back onto the scene? Sign me up! It’s good to see women be bad or morally ambiguous, who will do bad things to protect those they care about plus there’s the family of choice trope.
What books would you want to see adapted for TV?
Elena Square Eyes 
I am not familiar with any of those you mentioned, except Sabriel. I’ve read the synopsis once, but I haven’t really found the inclination to read it, maybe if it will be turned into a TV series maybe I will like it. 🙂
Years ago there was rumours that it would become a TV show but alas, we haven’t got one yer
Hmmm. Networks have their way in making false hypes. 😦
I would love to read the passage and Geezer Girls and It seems as promising as you described it, I would love to see them turn into a TV Show.
They’re so good and both would defo be gripping TV shows 🙂
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Great picks. Based on your description of each book, I can see why they would make great shows.I would definitely watch The Passage since I like Walking Dead. Great post!
Thanks! It’s always interesting thinking about what books would be good for film or TV 🙂
Oo Sabriel would be wonderful as a TV show – and I agree the longer format would definitely suit it more than film! 🙂
Yeah sometimes big fantasy stories just won’t fit well into a two hour film, there’s a lot of books I wish had been made for TV instead of being turned into a film because so much gets left out of a film.
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Oooh I think Sabriel would be amazing as a TV show! If they used some good special effects all the creatures would look great!
Yes exactly! And it would be really cool to see the river, the gates and how death in general is shown on screen. Would be super creepy and atmospheric. 😀
Yeah the gates could be amazing 🙂 We can only dream that a company might pick it up and do it justice!