SCPL Reads: Book VS Movie

It's the age-old question: Is the book better than the movie? We will let you decide for yourself when you borrow these titles and their film counterparts. (Yes, that's right. You can borrow movies for free from the library.)

Book cover for The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger.

The Devil Wears Prada

Lauren Weisberger

A small-town girl fresh out of an Ivy League college lands a job at a prestigious fashion magazine, but wonders if the glamorous perks are worth working for the cruel editor.

Book cover for The Host by Stephenie Meyer.

The Host

Stephenie Meyer

A member of a species that takes over the minds of human bodies, Wanderer is unable to disregard his host's love for a man in hiding, a situation that forces both possessor and host to become unwilling allies.

Book cover for Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Jesse Andrews

Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.

Book cover for The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.

Book cover for The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

When an elderly curator of the Louvre turns up murdered, his body surrounded by enigmatic ciphers written in invisible ink, code-breaker Robert Langdon and French cyptologist Sophie Neveu are called in to unravel the clues to the killing, only to discover that the riddles are linked to the works of Leonardo da Vinci and to a clandestine, ruthless sect within the Catholic Church.

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