Books to Read Before the Movies Hit Theaters This Fall

1. The Queen of Katwe by Tim Crothers

This true story follows Phione Mutesi, a Ungandan teen living in poverty who competes at the World Chess Olympiads and becomes one of the world’s best chess players

Hits theaters: September 23, 2016

Genre: Drama

Starring: David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o, Charity Rose Pimer

1. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

This book centers on Jacob, a teenager who finds himself at the ruins of an abandoned orphanage that was once home to strange and perhaps dangerous children

Hits theaters: September 30, 2016

Genre: Fantasy/Adventure

Starring: Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson, Asa Butterfield

   3. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Rachel Watson becomes obsessed with a couple after watching them on her train commute each day, after the wife disappears she believes she may be involved

Hits theaters: October 7, 2016

Genre: Mystery/Suspense

Starring: Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, Rebecca Ferguson

1. Inferno by Dan Brown

In this continuation of the Da Vinci Code series, Robert Langdon follows clues from Dante’s The Divine Comedy in order to solve a perplexing riddle and prevent an international incident from occurring

Hits theaters: October 28, 2016

Genre: Mystery/Suspense

Starring: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Omar Sy

1. The Lost City of Z by David Grann

This true story portrays British explorer Percy Fawcett who, along with his son, vanished in 1925 during the search for an ancient Amazonian civilization

Hits theaters: October 30, 2016

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller

1. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling

The world of Harry Potter is explored again in this book which is written in the form of a textbook offering information on numerous magical creatures, and the film also focuses on the adventures of the character Newt Scamander, an eccentric magizoologist

Hits theaters: November 18, 2016

Genre: Fantasy/Adventure

Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterson, Alison Sudul, Ezra Miller

1. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Twelve-year-old Conor is visited each night by a story-telling monster while dealing with the diagnosis of his mother’s terminal cancer and his classmates bullying

Hits theaters: December 23, 2016

Genre: Drama

Starring: Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver

1. The Circle by Dave Eggers

This book focuses on the future of the technology industry while following a young woman, Mae Holland, who climbs the corporate ladder at an Internet company

Hits theaters: December 31, 2016

Genre: Sci-fi/Drama

Starring: Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, John Boyega

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