The Best Books Coming to a Screen Near You in 2025

This six-episode Argentine sci-fi drama, based on the 1957 graphic novel, follows Juan Salvo and his friends as they survive a deadly snowfall in Buenos Aires, only to discover it's the prelude to an alien invasion. The series has become a cultural phenomenon, with its themes of survival and solidarity resonating widely. Within days of its release, it climbed to the top of Netflix’s global chart for non-English-language TV shows.

This modern adaptation of Blume's 1975 novel is set in 2018 Los Angeles, focusing on two young athletes navigating first love amid parental pressure to earn college scholarships.The Guardian hailed the Netflix series as “frank, funny, and fearless,” praising it for bringing this Blume classic to a new generation.

This modern YA classic is a suspenseful tale of privilege, secrets, and betrayal on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. The story follows the wealthy Sinclair family and the secrets that come to light during a summer on their private island. The Amazon Prime Video adaptation is developed by Julie Plec, known for her work on The Vampire Diaries.

Written by bestselling author Liz Moore, known for The God of the Woods, this gripping crime drama is set in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood. It follows a police officer searching for her missing sister amid the opioid crisis.

Based on Martha Wells’s Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Murderbot series, this sci-fi comedy-thriller follows a self-aware security android who hacks its own programming to gain autonomy.

The final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty brings Jenny Han’s bestselling trilogy to a close. As Belly navigates complex relationships and personal growth, the story delves into themes of love, family, and self-discovery.

A Booker Prize finalist, this novel follows eleven-year-old Wash, a slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, who is chosen as a manservant to his master’s abolitionist brother. Introduced to a new world of invention and exploration, he discovers the possibility of freedom in this "gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free," according to Vanity Fair.

Written by award-winning audiobook narrator Julia Whelan, this romantic comedy follows an ambitious American student at Oxford whose carefully laid plans are disrupted by an unexpected romance.