Book adaptations are flavour of the month for streaming services right now. Amazon hit gold last year with Prime Video's Reacher and Paper Girls, while Netflix continues to mine the work of many authors for its best-performing series, including Neil Gaiman's wondrous The Sandman and, more recently, Lockwood & Co. But which other books would make the best Netflix series?
UPDATE:The Shadow and Bone TV series, based on Leigh Bardugo's super popular Grishaverse books, has returned to Netflix. Season 2 has landed on the streaming service, and it's a story that adapts the Siege and Storm book and adds an original storyline featuring the Crows characters.
With Netflix plucking away at the page turners - graphic novels or otherwise - and taking great strides to bring greater variety to the stuff we lose our weekends to, we take aim at 20 books we feel deserve adaptation by the streaming giant.
(And don’t worry: There are no spoilers ahead, so you’ll be able to binge them all when Netflix invariably take note and nick all our ideas.)
Books that would make brilliant Netflix series
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