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New Year, new reading goals. It\u2019s that season again when anything feels possible: Maybe this is the year you\u2019ll finally tackle that dust-laden copy of \u201cInfinite Jest<\/a>\u201d sitting on your shelf, or earn your \u201cI finished \u2018The Power Broker\u2019\u201d mug<\/a>. And for binge watchers, it\u2019s also the perfect chance to study up by diving into the books that are being adapted into movies and TV shows in 2025. Here are some of the thrillers, romances, sci-fi page turners and detective novels coming soon to a screen near you.<\/p>\n This is a running list. Check back for more updates as the year goes on.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Peter Sutherland is an F.B.I. agent who works at the White House, monitoring an emergency phone line that seldom rings. One night, he receives a distressing call from a woman named Rose Larkin, who reports that two people have just been murdered. What follows is a whirlwind of action and suspense as the two become entangled in a conspiracy involving high-level corruption and espionage.<\/p>\n Season 2 of \u201cThe Night Agent<\/a>\u201d premieres on Netflix on Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n There have been no shortage<\/a> of screen versions of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle\u2019s beloved British detective: According to the Guinness Book of World Records<\/a>, the persnickety genius is the second-most portrayed literary character in the history of film. In \u201cWatson,\u201d the latest adaptation, however, the focus is on Dr. John Watson, Holmes\u2019s loyal confidant and the frequent narrator of his escapades. Though the series is not inspired by a specific book or story, \u201cA Study in Scarlet\u201d is a delectable primer on the two men\u2019s longstanding friendship.<\/p>\n \u201cWatson\u201d premieres on CBS and Paramount+ on Jan. 26.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In this spinoff of Pilkey\u2019s \u201cCaptain Underpants\u201d universe, Dog Man<\/a> \u2014 a part-dog, part-human police officer \u2014 and his eccentric friends battle villains and solve crimes. Blending humor, action and heart, the graphic novel series teaches young readers about friendship and bravery \u2014 all brought to life through colorful illustrations and quirky anthropomorphic characters. It has already been adapted into an Off Broadway musical<\/a>. Now it heads to the big screen.<\/p>\n \u201cDog Man\u201d premieres in theaters on Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In this third installment of Fielding\u2019s series about an endearingly hapless British diarist, Bridget Jones is adjusting to widowed life after the death of her husband, Mark Darcy. Raising her two young children as a single mother now in her 50s, she juggles her career and navigates romantic mishaps with characteristic wit and self-deprecating humor. The book, our critic wrote<\/a>, \u201cis not only sharp and humorous, despite its heroine\u2019s aged circumstances, but also snappily written, observationally astute and at times genuinely moving.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBridget Jones: Mad About the Boy\u201d premieres on Peacock on Feb. 13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Paddington was still in Peru when he first appeared on the big screen in 2014. Now, over a decade later, he returns to his home country with his adopted Brown family in the third installment of this fan-favorite film series<\/a>, inspired by Bond\u2019s beloved books. Dozens of titles, including novels, picture books and short story collections, have been published since the clumsy brown bear made his print debut in 1958<\/a>, but \u201cA Bear Called Paddington\u201d remains a perfect introduction to the marmalade enthusiast.<\/p>\n \u201cPaddington in Peru\u201d premieres in theaters on Feb. 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In this 1958 novel, now being given the mini-series treatment, Prince Don Fabrizio Corbera grapples with the decline of his aristocratic family\u2019s status in 1860s Sicily, as Giuseppe Garibaldi leads the Risorgimento<\/a> campaign to overthrow the monarchy and unite Italy as one nation-state. Lampedusa was himself the last in a line of Sicilian princes, and he drew heavily on his own family\u2019s story to craft this tale about the rise of a new bourgeois class and Prince Fabrizio\u2019s struggles to find his place in a rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Leopard\u201d premieres on Netflix on March 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Mickey, an \u201cexpendable\u201d worker on a remote ice planet, knows he will most likely die on the job. But no matter: Cloning exists in this space colony and, after one version of Mickey dies, a new one will regenerate. After Mickey7 goes missing on a space mission, Mickey8 is immediately created. The only problem? Mickey7 is still alive. (And in case eight regenerations weren\u2019t enough, the director Bong Joon Ho takes it 10 steps further in his film adaptation, \u201cMickey17,\u201d starring Robert Pattinson as Mickey.)<\/p>\n \u201cMickey17\u201d premieres in theaters on March 7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ray and his best friend, Manny, met in a juvenile detention facility. Nearly two decades later, they\u2019ve found a way to make a living by posing as D.E.A. agents and raiding drug houses in Philadelphia. It\u2019s a simple and lucrative grift \u2014 until a poorly chosen mark puts them in the cross hairs of a dangerous kingpin. High-speed car chases, bloody violence and many flying bullets ensue.<\/p>\n \u201cDope Thief\u201d premieres on Apple TV+ on March 14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe Mirror and Light<\/a>\u201d is the final book in Mantel\u2019s \u201cWolf Hall\u201d trilogy<\/a>, which chronicles Thomas Cromwell\u2019s rise to power in Henry VIII\u2019s capricious court. It\u2019s a sinewy, imaginative work of historical fiction that delights in the psyche of a man whose political maneuvering and ambitions lead him to the pinnacle of power \u2014 and to his own undoing. The actor Mark Rylance, who won a BAFTA for his portrayal of Cromwell in the 2015 mini series<\/a> that covered the trilogy\u2019s first two novels, returns for this final chapter.<\/p>\n \u201cWolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light\u201d premieres on PBS on March 23.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBy Matthew Quirk<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Arthur Conan Doyle<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Dav Pilkey<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Helen Fielding<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Michael Bond<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Giuseppe di Lampedusa<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Edward Ashton<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Dennis Tafoya<\/span><\/h3>\n
By Hilary Mantel<\/span><\/h3>\n