Lupita Nyong’o’s new movie is based on Tim Crothers’s book of the same name. Telling the real-life story of Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan chess prodigy who grew up in the Katwe slum, this is a big-hearted feelgood Disney movie. Read the book before October 21 when it hits UK cinemas.
Movies. Are they better than books? Or is the book always superior? And should you read the story before you watch its big-screen adaptation? A definitive answer to these biggies evades us. But, for literary purists, here are 17 novels to get under your bookish belt before the opening titles on those film adaptations start rolling.