NYT’s Most Anticipated Movie Adaptations: PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION and More!

Still deciding what to add to your TBR this year? The New York Times just rounded up a list of books to read before they hit the big screen in 2026. Whether you’re firmly on the side of reading the book before the movie or prefer to watch the movie first, you don’t want to miss these adaptions.

We’re especially excited to see so many Penguin Random House titles make the list, with several of our books heading to theaters and streaming this year. And the adaptations are already underway: Emily Henry’s PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION premieres on Netflix today, January 9!

To learn more, check out the New York Times piece here.

Our Featured 2026 Book-to-Screen Adaptions:

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry (Berkley)

Coming to Netflix on January 9, 2026.

NOW A NETFLIX FILM!

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY by Agatha Christie (Vintage)

Coming to Netflix on January 15, 2026.

A clever murder mystery featuring recurring character Superintendent Battle that pokes light-hearted fun at the international spy thriller genre–soon to be a major Netflix series.

Gerry Wade is famous for over-sleeping, but when a group of his fellow young guests at a country house weekend decide to play a prank on him by setting eight alarm clocks to go off in his room early one morning, they are rewarded with a nasty surprise. This time, poor Gerry is quite literally dead to the world. As the police descend upon Chimneys, the historic estate of Lord Caterham, the youthful friends—led by the bold and clever Lady Eileen “Bundle” Brent—take investigative matters into their own hands. As more victims turn up dead and clues seem to point to a wider plot, Bundle and her pals risk their lives to find the murderer before he kills again.

THE BEAUTY by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley (Ignition Press)

Coming to FX on January 21, 2026.

Discover the groundbreaking sci-fi horror story just in time for the TV adaptation from Ryan Murphy.

In a culture increasingly obsessed with physical beauty, what if you could be guaranteed a shortcut to becoming beautiful? A sexually transmitted disease has started transforming people who catch it, changing their facial features and body types to something more in line with society’s perceived ideal. The only catch? You will have a slight, persistent fever. But who cares how you feel when you look so good?

FINDING HER EDGE by Jennifer Iacopelli (Razorbill)

Coming to Netflix on January 22, 2026.

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX SERIES.

Adriana Russo is figure skating royalty, born to gold-medalist parents and an equally talented sister. Adriana’s dream? To conquer the Junior World Championships and uphold the family legacy. But when the family’s legendary skating rink faces financial ruin, everything she’s worked for is at risk.

Training with her new partner, Brayden, sparks an idea: let the world believe their on-ice chemistry isn’t only for show. The fake-dating gains traction, and Adriana realizes maybe she actually is falling for Brayden. But then her past crashes into her present and changes everything, when Freddie, her former partner—and first crush—reenters the scene.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte (Penguin Classics)

Coming to theatres on February 13, 2026.

As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Catherine and Heathcliff: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young.

How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge – and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death.

FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley (Vintage)

“The Bride!” is coming to theatres on March 6, 2026.

The most famous horror story in world literature—the original tale of a mad scientist and his monster—is also a profoundly moving masterpiece.

When the scientist Victor Frankenstein attempts to create life in his laboratory, he sets in motion tragic forces beyond his control and faces losing everything he loves. No reader in the grip of Mary Shelley’s novel, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself, can fail to notice how much more excellent the original is than all the countless adaptations, imitations, and homages which have followed in its ample wake. In her first novel, written at the instigation of Lord Byron and published in 1818 (and revised in 1831), the teenaged Shelley managed to produce English Romanticism’s finest prose fiction. This edition reproduces her original 1818 text.

PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir (Ballantine Books)

Coming to theatres on March 20, 2026. 

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.