As Salmon Fishing In Yemen, the latest celebrated novel to hit the big screen, arrives amid traditional grumbles about how cinema can never do literature justice, we thought we'd come out swinging for celluloid by picking the books we'd love to see put in the hands of filmmakers.
We know, we know. Most unbecoming for a book section. But then history proves that sometimes - sometimes - filmmakers can take our beloved novels and create something quite magical with them.
You only have to roll out the usual suspects - The Godfather, Breakfast At Tiffany's, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - to be reminded that not every adaptation is sacrilege, and sometimes, though we hate to admit it, the screen can trump the page.
After all, just imagine a world with no Colin Firth coming out of the lake, or Harry Potter with no Daniel Radcliffe.
Exactly.
Some books are just begging to be made into films - like The Secret History or The God of Small Things. Others are a bit more cerebral, but that shouldn't stop the modern film maker, with their CGI and 3D, to make even the most unlikely books into great films.
Check out our list below - and if there's any you feel we've missed, let us know in the comments.