From Page to Screen: Top Adaptations of 2026

By Keri Horan | January 12 2026 | Graphic Novels & MangaAdult

Still deciding what to add to your TBR this year? The New York Times just rounded up a list of books to read before they hit the big screen in 2026. Whether you’re firmly on the side of reading the book before the movie or prefer to watch the movie first, you don’t want to miss these adaptions.

We’re especially excited to see so many Penguin Random House titles make the list, with several of our books heading to theaters and streaming this year. And the adaptations are already underway: Emily Henry’s PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION premiered this week on Netflix US!

To learn more, check out the New York Times piece here.

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Now on Netflix!

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

$20.00 US
Nov 18, 2025
Paperback
400 Pages
Berkley
US, Canada, Open Mkt

9781968063016

Coming to FX on January 21, 2026.

Discover the groundbreaking sci-fi horror story just in time for the TV adaptation from Ryan Murphy.

In a culture increasingly obsessed with physical beauty, what if you could be guaranteed a shortcut to becoming beautiful? A sexually transmitted disease has started transforming people who catch it, changing their facial features and body types to something more in line with society’s perceived ideal. The only catch? You will have a slight, persistent fever. But who cares how you feel when you look so good?

$19.99 US
Jan 20, 2026
FOC Dec 01, 2025
Paperback
288 Pages
Ignition Press
World

9780593350386

Coming to Netflix on January 22, 2026.

Adriana Russo is figure skating royalty, born to gold-medalist parents and an equally talented sister. Adriana’s dream? To conquer the Junior World Championships and uphold the family legacy. But when the family’s legendary skating rink faces financial ruin, everything she’s worked for is at risk.

Training with her new partner, Brayden, sparks an idea: let the world believe their on-ice chemistry isn’t only for show. The fake-dating gains traction, and Adriana realizes maybe she actually is falling for Brayden. But then her past crashes into her present and changes everything, when Freddie, her former partner—and first crush—reenters the scene.

$12.99 US
Dec 02, 2025
Paperback
320 Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
US, Canada, Open Mkt

9780143139140

Coming to theatres on February 13, 2026.

As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Catherine and Heathcliff: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young.

How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge – and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death.

$18.00 US
Feb 03, 2026
Paperback
352 Pages
Penguin Books
World except UK/Ireland

9780143138969

“The Bride!” is coming to theatres on March 6, 2026.

The most famous horror story in world literature—the original tale of a mad scientist and his monster—is also a profoundly moving masterpiece.

When the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create life in his laboratory, he sets in motion tragic forces beyond his control and faces losing everything he loves. No reader in the grip of Mary Shelley’s novel, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the countless adaptations, imitations, and homages which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), the teenaged Shelley managed to produce English Romanticism’s finest prose fiction. This edition reproduces her original 1818 text.

$18.00 US
Oct 28, 2025
Paperback
240 Pages
Penguin Books
World

9798217299461

Coming to theatres on March 20, 2026. 

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

$22.00 US
Dec 02, 2025
FOC Nov 03, 2025
Paperback
496 Pages
Ballantine Books
US, Canada, Open Mkt

9781799506904

And one extra title that didn’t appear on the New York Times list…because we’re so excited we can’t leave it off!

Coming to theatres on June 26, 2026. 

It’s Supergirl like you’ve never seen her before, in a character-defining sci-fi/fantasy masterpiece from Mister Miracle writer Tom King and Wonder Woman artist Bilquis Evely! Read the story that inspired the upcoming film, published for the first time in DC’s popular, portable Compact Comics format!

$9.99 US
Jan 06, 2026
FOC Oct 20, 2025
Paperback
216 Pages
DC Comics
World