50 YA Books We Want Adapted to the Big or Small Screen

Cover to The Diviners (original) by Libba Bray. Image via Little Brown Books for Young Readers.

46. The Diviners

Adaptations set in the 1920s are pretty common these days; within the decade we’ve not only had another adaptation of The Great Gatsby but also a fictionalized version of the wife of Gatsby’s author, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald in Z: The Beginning of Everything. And why not? The ‘20s feature cool costumes, flappers, jazz, Prohibition…but we think there’s room for a little magic, too.

Libba Bray’s The Diviners duology has that magic, we think, and this is just her first entry on this list.

Anyway, Evie O’Neill has just arrived in where else but New York City, and even though it comes with working for her uncle Will, who runs a museum that’s earned the nickname of “The Museum of Creepy Crawlies”, it also means she has time to dive into the glitz and glamor offered by the city. Well, she also has time to dive into dreams, much as she wants to keep that gift secret.

Unfortunately, keeping that secret might be tougher than she thinks, especially when bodies start showing up, and her uncle Will happens to get involved in the investigation because of his experience running the museum.

However, she’s not the only one who has the power of a Diviner, and she’ll need to work together with others.

This one could also do well as a series or as a movie, since duologies often don’t get full-blown films. However, The Diviners alone clocks in at 608 pages! Suffice it say there’s a lot of material there.