Poll: What Binge-Worthy TV Most Makes You Want to "Binge-Read?"

Results of 1,493 votes:

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   Game of Thrones (2011)

    

   Based on A Game of Thrones,the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin.
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   Sherlock (2010)

    

   Based on Arthur Conan Doyle's four novels and 56 short stories featuring the character of Sherlock Holmes, the most famous and most critically acclaimed of which is The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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   Outlander (2014)

    

   Based on the Outlander series of novels about time travel by Diana Gabaldon.
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   Dexter (2006)

    

   Based on Darkly Dreaming Dexter, the first novel in a series about Dexter, by Jeff Lindsay.
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   Hannibal (2013)

    

   Based on Thomas Harris' novels Red Dragon and Hannibal, which, along with Silence of the Lambs, form a trilogy.
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   Boardwalk Empire (2010)

    

   Based on Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, by Nelson Johnson.
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   The Leftovers (2014)

    

   Based on The Leftovers, the novel by Tom Perrotta.
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   Orange Is the New Black (2013)

    

   Based on Piper Kerman's memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, about her time spent at a minimum-security federal prison.
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   Elementary (2012)

    

   Based on Arthur Conan Doyle's four novels and 56 short stories featuring the character of Sherlock Holmes, the most famous and most critically acclaimed of which is The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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    Longmire (2012)

     

    Based on the Walt Longmire Mysteries, a series of novels written by Craig Johnson.
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    A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (2012)

     

    Based on the short story collection, A Young Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov, who also wrote the novel, The Master and Margarita, which is widely considered to be one of the literary masterpiece…
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    Justified (2010)

     

    Based on the short story, "Fire in the Hole," by Elmore Leonard, whose other writings include work that inspired movies such as Jackie Brown, Get Shorty, and 3:10 to Yuma.
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    The Strain (2014)

     

    Based on the trilogy of novels, The Strain, by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
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    House of Cards (2013)

     

    Based on House of Cards, by Michael Dobbs.
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    The Musketeers (2014)

     

    Based on the characters from the novel, The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas.
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    Flashforward (2009)

     

    Based on the novel, Flashforward, by science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer.
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    Call the Midwife (2012)

     

    Based on a trilogy of memoirs by Jennifer Worth, the first of which is Call the Midwife, later called Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s.
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    Wallander (2008)

     

    Based on a series of mystery novels, featuring the character Kurt Wallander, written by Henning Mankell. The first novel of the series is Faceless Killers.
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    Homicide: Life on the Street (1993)

     

    Based on Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon, describing the year he spent with detectives from the Baltimore Police Department Homicide Unit.
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    About a Boy (2014)

     

    Based on About a Boy, a novel by Nick Hornby.
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    Masters of Sex (2013)

     

    Based on Thomas Maier's Masters of Sex, a biography of Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson.
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    Friday Night Lights (2006)

     

    Based on the nonfiction book, Friday Night Lights, by H. G. Bissinger.
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    Roswell (1999)

     

    Based on the Roswell High young adult book series, by Melinda Metz.
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    China Beach (1988)

     

    Based on Home Before Morning, by former U.S. Army Nurse Lynda Van Devanter.
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    The Dead Zone (2002)

     

    Based on the novel, The Dead Zone, by Stephen King.
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    The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (2008)

     

    Based on the series of novels, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith.
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    Army Wives (2007)

     

    Based on Army Wives: The Unwritten Code of Military Marriage, by Tanya Biank.
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    Huge (2010)

     

    Based on the young adult novel, Huge, by Sasha Paley.
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    The Starter Wife (2008)

     

    Based on the novel, The Starter Wife, by Gigi Levangie Grazer.
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    The Chronicle (2001)

     

    Based on the News from the Edge, a series of science fiction novels by Mark Sumner.
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    Gideon's Crossing (2000)

     

    Based on The Measure of Our Days, the nonfiction book by physician Jerome Groopman.
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    Karen Sisco (2003)

     

    Based on a character of writer Elmore Leonard's. The character appears in short stories by Leonard, as well as the novel, Out of Sight, which was adapted for a movie.
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    The Nine Lives of Chloe King (2011)

     

    Based on the series of books, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, by Liz Braswell.
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    Surviving Jack (2014)

     

    Based on Justin Halpern's autobiographical book, I Suck at Girls.
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    Maximum Bob (1998)

     

    Based on the novel, Maximum Bob, by Elmore Leonard.