


Happy Prime Day!
It’s that time of year again when Amazon discounts hundreds of thousands of products exclusively for shoppers who are subscribed to Amazon Prime ($15/month).
Among all of those are some great deals on bestselling books, because Amazon did start as a bookstore, after all.
There’s no question about the major influence books have had on TV and movies. Just check out our list of upcoming book-to-screen adaptations and recommendations for books to read based on your favorite shows.
Below, we’ve rounded up 36 of the best deals on books that have inspired shows or movies, are about shows or movies, and more.
Happy shopping and happy reading!
Prince Harry’s groundbreaking memoir, published earlier this year, is 61% for Prime Day.

From The Simple Life to helping create the influencer-celebrity online persona, Paris Hilton is finally telling her own story in her own words.

The story of two French sisters ripped apart by World War II has long been in development as a film starring Dakota and Elle Fanning. Today, you can get the novel for 63% off.

One of a few editions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy sagas on sale today, this four-volume edition features 4.25″ x 5 .75″ compact-sized books.

Score this beautiful collector’s edition of The Lord of the Rings on a major sale — 63% off, hitting its lowest price of the year. The inside features illustrations by Tolkien himself, and the text is printed in two colors.

Similar to the above edition without the leather binding, the 1954 fantasy epic is reprinted with original illustrations and colored text.

Star Wars geeks will love this book, which takes an in-depth look at the inner workings of all of the vehicles from the franchise: X-wings, TIE fighters, land speeders, and of course, the Millennium Falcon.

The first book in Bailey’s popular Bellinger Sisters romance duology makes the perfect beach read, and it’s recently been optioned for film.

The real story told in The Radium Girls was adapted into a Netflix original movie. If you wanted to know more about that time in history, now’s the perfect time to pick up this book.

Indie romance darling Kennedy Ryan’s 2022 novel about a divorced couple finding their way back to each other is being developed as a TV series by Peacock.

Netflix just released a teaser for their adaptation of The Three Body Problem. If you like to read before you watch, you can pick up this box set for 48% off. It includes The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death’s End.

If you just want book one of the trilogy, you can pick up a paperback for 59% off during Prime Day.

Save 62% on this four-volume boxed set that includes The Hobbit and all three volumes of The Lord of the Rings.

Take $10 off this novel — one of the books of 2020 — about twin mixed-race sisters, one of whom spends her life passing as white, while the other still lives in their same Southern, primarily-Black hometown. HBO purchased the rights to adapt the book into a limited series.

In this memoir, which combines different writing styles (like poetry and prose), former Playboy Playmate and actress Pamela Anderson reclaims her narrative and life story.

On Prime Day, you can get mass-market paperbacks of the first four Outlander books, which are the basis for the Starz original series, for just over 50% off.

If you watched Prime Video’s Shiny Happy People docuseries and want more stories about growing up Duggar, the family’s sixth child’s memoir is 54% off during Prime Day.

A TV adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s tear-jerker just wrapped up a two-season run on Netflix.

From the High Republic to the First Order, chart the entire timeline of the Star Wars universe through seven eras in this ultra-detailed chronological guide.

Catch up on the books in time for season two of The Wheel of Time on Prime Video.
This boxed set includes The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, and The Dragon Reborn.

Continue reading The Wheel of Time with the next three books in the series: The Shadow Rising, The Fires of Heaven, and Lord of Chaos.

The Wheel of Time boxed set #3 is 63% off today, and includes A Crown of Swords, The Path of Daggers, and Winter’s Heart.

The fourth boxed set is not included in Prime Day sales, but you can complete the series with Towers of Midnight, A Memory of Light, and a prequel, New Spring.

This 60% off sale includes the first four books in the Bridgerton series: The Duke and I (Daphne’s story), The Viscount Who Loved Me (Anthony’s story), An Offer From A Gentleman (Benedict’s story), and Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Colin’s story).
The upcoming third season of Bridgerton on Netflix will tell Colin and Penelope’s story from book four.

Isabela Merced will star in a film adaptation of John Green’s last novel. It’s set to debut on Max this year.

This Golden Girls-inspired cookbook includes easy-to-follow recipes like Rose’s The Fall of St. Olaf Pumpkin Cheesecake, Dorothy’s Vodka and Black Underwear, Sophia’s Double Fudge Amaretto Ricotta Cheesecake and Blanche’s Big Daddy Mint Julep.

Catch up on what’s happening in Arrakis before Dune: Part Two hits theaters with this special edition hardcover, now at its lowest price of the year.

HBO’s series adaptation may have wrapped up this year, but the beloved trilogy is 57% off for Prime Day. The boxed set includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.

Amazon Studios is producing a movie adaptation of Robinne Lee’s romance novel about a 40-year-old divorcee who hits it off with the lead singer of the most famous boyband in the world. Anne Hathaway will star in the movie opposite Nicholas Galitzine (who is quickly becoming the MVP of romance novel to movie adaptations).

The second novel in the Rooneyverse to be adapted for TV, Conversations with Friends premiered on Hulu last year; it starred Jemima Kirke and Joe Alwyn.

Take 63% off a hardcover copy of Olga Dies Dreaming, so you can say you read it before Hulu’s Aubrey Plaza-led series premieres.

The latest book in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series has yet to be adapted into the popular series; pick it up now for 60% off.

Great British Baking Show fans should take advantage of this Prime Day deal on the sixth series winner Nadiya Hussain’s book, which features over 90 recipes.

Chart the history of the anime genre through 30 different films in this guide to animated Japanese cinema.

Wes Anderson’s aesthetic is so well-known, and this book takes that and applies it to real-life places that just happen to look like a frame out of Anderson’s movies. The director himself authorized the book and penned the foreword.