Read Before You Watch

Book-to-screen tracker

Finish the book before the show.

A tracker of books becoming movies and TV series, sorted by what lands soonest, with a live countdown and a realistic reading-time estimate for each.

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  • 23dated and upcoming
  • 14still TBA
  • 10already out

Read now: soonest release first

23 dated adaptations coming up. Countdowns run to midnight on the release date in your local time (US dates; some regions differ). The green/amber line shows whether you can finish at 30 minutes a day.

Release timeline

Every dated upcoming release, month by month, with titles that have no announced date listed below it.

  1. October 20263 releases

  2. November 20265 releases

  3. December 20262 releases

  4. January 20272 releases

  5. February 20272 releases

  6. March 20271 release

  7. May 20271 release

  8. July 20271 release

  9. November 20273 releases

  10. December 20272 releases

  11. November 20281 release

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Date to be announced14 titles waiting on a date

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