World Book Day: 13 books that are becoming movies in 2018 you NEED to read

Find out about all the amazing book adaptations coming to a cinema near you

Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are back for a third and final romp on the cinema screen as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey – with EL James’s saga comes to a close in suitably dramatic fashion.

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Christian and Ana are now married and living a very happy life together, but it’s not long before ghosts from the past threaten to ruin everything they’ve achieved…

Fifty Shades Freed opened in UK cinemas on 9th February

Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews

Jennifer Lawrence stars at the titular Red Sparrow in the upcoming adaptation of former CIA agent Jason Matthews’ tale of espionage. Dominika Egorova is a bright and brilliant young woman who has been trained in the art of seducing the enemy at Russian Intelligence’s elite ‘Sparrow School’.

Things become rather complicated for Dominika when she meets CIA agent Nathaniel Nash (Joel Edgerton) an American mole in Russia whom she really should expose…

Red Sparrow opens in UK cinemas on 2nd March

Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Upcoming Young Adult movie Love, Simon is the big screen adaptation of Becky Albertalli’s bestselling novel about a boy who’s coming to terms with his sexuality and falling in love online with a correspondent known only as Blue.

Jurassic World star Nick Robinson is Simon, while 13 Reasons Why’s Katherine Langford plays his best female friend, Leah. Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel also star.

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Love, Simon opens in UK cinemas on 16th March