Several best-selling books will make way for returning TV shows and new ones in 2026. Summer has seen several adaptations like Every Year After, Netflix's Little House on the Prairie, Peacock's The Five-Star Weekend, App...
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PUBLISHED FRI, SEP 11, 2026 12:33 AM UTC • 6 MIN READ
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Several best-selling books will make way for returning TV shows and new ones in 2026.
Summer has seen several adaptations like Every Year After , Netflix's Little House on the Prairie , Peacock's The Five-Star Weekend , Apple TV's Lucky and Silo Season 3 and Netflix's Ransom Canyon Season 2 and My Life With the Walter Boys Season 3 roll out.
May welcomed Elle Kennedy's Off Campus books to the small screen mid-month with the first season of the hockey romance series launching on Prime Video. Still to come in May is the second season of A Good Girl's Guide To Murder on Netflix. Summer has several projects in store.
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March saw the arrival of a rarer type of book adaptation - the second season of The Last Thing He Told Me based on a concurrent sequel novel that Laura Dave wrote to her first book of the same name that inspired the Apple TV series. And April will welcome Margo's Got Money Troubles to the Apple TV series family. Summer has Every Year After , Lucky and The Five Star Weekend in the wings.
One of the first major arrivals in January was A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , based on George R. R. Martin's The Hedge Knight , after Netflix's series based on Alice Feeney's thriller His & Hers . The prequel series to Game of Thrones has been a long time in the making. Part 2 of Bridgerton Season 4, based on the third book in Julia Quinn's series, arrived Feb. 26 after leaving audiences on a major cliffhanger ask .
Read on for more TV shows based on books coming out this year.
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Blake Crouch's science fiction best-seller, Dark Matter , transformed into a TV series with season one arriving on Apple TV in May 2024. The second season will arrive on the streamer two years after it was renewed , with the first episode debuting Aug. 28 .
Kit Harrington leads MGM+'s series adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1859 novel, A Tale of Two Cities , starring as attorney Sydney Carton, who agrees to defend Charles Darnay (François Civil) at the ask of Lucie Manette (Mirren Mack). The first episode premiered Sunday, Sept. 6 with new ones dropping weekly.
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Zoe Kazan's modern take on John Steinbeck's classic East of Eden , published in 1952, will come to Netflix Oct. 1, four years after its development was initially confirmed. Florence Pugh will star as Cathy Ames, antiheroine of the story, with Tracy Letts playing Cyrus Trask, Martha Plimpton playing Faye, Ciarán Hinds playing Samuel Hamilton, Joseph Zada ( We Were Liars , The Hunger Games ) playing Cal Trask and Joe Anders playing Aron Trask. Christopher Abbott will play Adam Trask, Mike Faist will portray Charles Trask and Hoon Lee will play Lee. Kazan's grandfather Elia Kazan directed the 1955 East of Eden movie. She wrote the screen adaptation of the novel and serves as co-showrunner alongside Jeb Stuart.
Stephen King's 1974 horror novel is getting a TV series adaptation on Prime Video from Mike Flanagan. Summer H. Howell will take on the role of the titular teen telekinetic in the show, which comes out on Prime Video Oct. 7.
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter is getting a television adaptation on Peacock from Slaughter herself, who showruns and executive produces in addition to writing. Centered around the unbreakable bond between two resilient, funny, difficult sisters portrayed by Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy, the show also stars Jake McDorman, Brendan Gleeson, Harper Steele, Olivia Williams, Paula Malcolmson and Michael Dorman. The Good Daughter premieres with all episodes on Peacock November 12.
Season 3 of Disney's Percy Jackson and the Olympians will be based on the never-before-adapted third book in Rick Riordan's original quintet of books about the son of Poseidon. The first two books were made into films in the 2010s, but the tv show is about to embark upon uncharted territory come November 20 when the new season arrives on Disney+.
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Kate Myers' best-selling novel Excavations has been adapted into Dig , a comedy arriving on Peacock November 23. The series stars Amy Poehler, Hugh Laurie, Geraldine Viswanathan, Antonia Thomas and Fina Strazza. Guest cast include Kayvan Novak, Jon Pointing and Bonita Friedericy.
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