Join Little Gold Men’s Summer Book Club

It’s not even summer yet, but over at Little Gold Men, we’re already thinking about the fall, when we’ll get our first look at most of this year’s Oscar hopefuls. But as we count down the days, we also have some homework to do.

Every year, several major films are literary adaptations, based on everything from beloved classics to popular memoirs, and 2025 is no exception. We’ll be seeing Guillermo del Toro’s novel take on Frankenstein and Nia DaCosta’s adaptation of the classic play Hedda. Oscar winner Chloé Zhao has adapted Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, and Paul Thomas Anderson has at least loosely based his novel film, One Battle After Another, on Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. In The Ballad of a Small Player, a 2014 novel by Lawrence Osborne, director Edward Berger will take us to the casinos in Macau, and Ben Shattuck’s The History of Sound, a collection of interconnected stories set in New England, will transform into a love story starring Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal.

This summer, the team at Little Gold Men will dive deep into a few of these titles, discussing them on the podcast and predicting what the source material might mean for each respective film adaptation. But we need your support! Click here or vote below for the titles you’d like the Little Gold Men team to read for our annual summer book club. We’ll announce the picks so you can read along with us. Get those library cards ready!