| 100% | CIMARRON | 8 | 1931's Best Picture, based on an Edna Ferber novel |
| 70% | CIMARRON | 8 | 1931 Oscar-winning Western based on an Edna Ferber novel |
| 64% | BOAT | 4 | "Show ___" (Broadway musical based on an Edna Ferber novel) |
| 54% | OLIVER | 6 | 1968 musical based on an 18-/41-Across novel, winner of the Oscar for Best Picture |
| 51% | SHOWBOAT | 8 | Musical based on Edna Ferber's 1926 best-seller |
| 49% | RUMBLEFISH | 10 | Matt Dillon film based on an S. E. Hinton novel |
| 46% | GIGI | 4 | 1958 Best Picture winner based on a Colette novel |
| 44% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture based on a hostage crisis |
| 42% | HUGO | 4 | Best Picture-nominated 2011 film based on a children's book |
| 41% | TOURIST | 7 | "The Accidental ___" (Best Picture Oscar nominee based on an Anne Tyler novel) |
| 40% | BAMBI | 5 | Disney film based on an Austrian novel |
| 40% | STATIONELEVEN | 13 | Dystopian miniseries based on an Emily St. John Mandel novel |
| 40% | EYRE | 4 | "Jane ___" (2011 movie based on an 1847 novel) |
| 39% | EMMA | 4 | 2020 film based on an 1815 Jane Austen novel |
| 39% | HEARTSTOPPER | 12 | Netflix series based on an Alice Oseman graphic novel |
| 39% | VFORVENDETTA | 12 | 2005 movie based on an Alan Moore graphic novel |
| 39% | SOUND | 5 | Based on good reasoning, like an argument |
| 39% | NOMADLAND | 9 | Best Picture winner based on a 2017 book |
| 38% | END | 3 | "Howards ___" (Emma Thompson film based on an E.M. Forster novel) |
| 38% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner based on events of 1979-80 |
| 38% | MISERY | 6 | Psychological thriller based on a S. King's novel |
| 38% | AND | 3 | "Sense ___ Sensibility" (Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet film based on an Austen novel) |
| 38% | RAINMAN | 7 | Best Picture winner based on the life of Kim Peek |
| 37% | NAKEDLUNCH | 10 | *1991 cult film based on a William S. Burroughs novel |
| 37% | SELMA | 5 | 2014 Best Picture nominee based on historical events |
| 37% | FUNHOME | 7 | Show based on an Alison Bechdel memoir that got the Best Musical Tony |
| 37% | SAND | 4 | "House of ___ and Fog" (2003 film based on an Andre Dubus III novel) |
| 37% | DALLAS | 6 | "Stella ___," Barbara Stanwyck starrer that is based on an Olive Higgins Prouty novel |
| 37% | ARGO | 4 | Best Picture winner based on the memoir "The Master of Disguise" |
| 37% | CHARLOTTESWEB | 13 | 2006 Julia Roberts kids' movie, based on an E.B. White novel, whose title begins with a woman's name: 2 wds. |