'Silence of the Lambs', 'No Country for Old Men' & 32 More, Award-Winning Books Turned into Movies on Sale for Kindle

‘Silence of the Lambs’, ‘No Country for Old Men’ & 32 More, Award-Winning Books Turned into Movies on Sale for Kindle

March 1, 2014

By Brad Brevet

I received a Kindle for Christmas and I absolutely love it. I am not a particularly fast reader, but with this device my reading speed has dramatically increased and one thing I do every day is check the Kindle Daily Deals at Amazon as they frequently offer something worth picking up for only $1.99. Well, today the list is rather long as they have 34 books that eventually inspired award-winning movies on sale.

No, this doesn’t mean Oscar winning as you’ll notice the book that helped inspire Ron Howard‘s Rush is included here and the Academy couldn’t even see fit to offer it a Sound nomination. However, we all saw Daniel Bruhl take home a few awards already so it definitely counts.

Books that inspired this year’s Oscar crop are limited to the books behind Philomena and The Invisible Woman, but there is a lot more to take away beyond that.

Two books from Dennis LeHane, which were adapted into Ben Affleck‘s Gone Baby Gone and Clint Eastwood‘s Mystic River are included. Books behind The Silence of the Lambs, the Coens’ No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, Jaws, The Exorcist, Catch Me If You Can, Life of Pi, The Devil Wears Prada and Schindler’s List. Looking at it now there’s a lot of Steven Spielberg stuff in there.

Just note, these items will only be on sale today so if you’re interested you have to buy now. Prices range from $1.99-$2.99 so you’re hardly breaking the bank, maybe buy two and keep them for a rainy day. The list is directly below.

And, if you don’t own a Kindle, might I suggest the Paperwhite. This is the one I have, and I have the one with “Special Offers” which means it has ads and it is $119, but if you’ve been thinking about buying one I can’t recommend it enough. If you’re interested click here.