All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Ramin Bahrani, ranked

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert: his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

Entrepreneur Balram Halwai emails Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, requesting a meeting, and relating his life story. He states his belief that the Indian underclass is trapped in a perpetual state of servitude, like chickens in a chicken coop. However when his father is unable to pay off The Stork, the village landlord, Balram’s grandmother forces him to work in the village’s tea stall, and he never returns to school.

Ptolemy Grey is a 93-year-old man forgotten by his family, by his friends, by even himself. On the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Ptolemy experiences a seismic shift when he’s given the tremendous opportunity to briefly regain his memories, and uses this precious and fleeting lucidity to solve his nephew’s death and come to terms with his past.

In the future, after a second civil war, most reading in America is confined to the Internet, called the 9, and most books are banned. Books are ordered to be burned by the firemen, who are part of the Ministry, a totalitarian dictatorship that blames unhappiness, mental illness, and conflicting opinions on reading the wrong literature.