HBO to Adapt 'Swamplandia'

Karen Russell's debut novel Swamplandia is the latest book to be adapted by HBO into a TV show. Swamplandia tells the story of the Bigtree clan, a family of alligator wrestlers who run a once-thriving tourist attraction. Check out some of the other novels HBO has adapted (or are in the works) after the jump!

Swamplandia! By Russell, Karen 2011-02 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307263995 Check the Library BookPage Notable Title The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, its island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a competitor. To save her family, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld. …More

The Corrections By Franzen, Jonathan 2001-09 - Farrar Straus Giroux 0374129983 Check the Library Winner - 2001 National Book Award for Fiction Winner - 2002 ALA Notable Fiction Selection A comic, tragic masterpiece of an American family breaking down in an age of easy fixes, Franzen's third novel brings an old-time America into wild collision with the era of home surveillance and New Economy speculation. Winner of the National Book Award. …More

American Gods By Gaiman, Neil 2001-06 - William Morrow & Company 0380973650 Check the Library A BookPage Notable Title Winner - 2002 Hugo Awards Winner - 2002 Nebula Award A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue. Shadow soon learns that his role in the man's schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined. …More

A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One By Martin, George R. R. 2002-05 - Bantam 9780553381689 Check the Library Here is the first volume in George R. R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin's stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction. A GAME OF THRONES Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, here is a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; and a determined woman undertakes the most treacherous of journeys. Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: thegame of thrones. …More

A Visit from the Goon Squad By Egan, Jennifer 2010-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307592835 Check the Library 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner BookPage Notable Title From one of today's boldest writers comes a sly, surprising, and exhilarating novel about time, survival, and the electrifying sparks ignited at the seams of our lives by colliding destinies. …More

Dead Until Dark By Harris, Charlaine 2001-05 - Ace Books 0441008534 Check the Library Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too--he's a vampire with a bad reputation. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next. …More

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Skloot, Rebecca 2010-02 - Crown Publishing Group (NY) 9781400052172 Check the Library Skloot brilliantly weaves together the story of Henrietta Lacks--a woman whose cells have been unwittingly used for scientific research since the 1950s--with the birth of bioethics, and the dark history of experimentation on African Americans. …More