A lot of the shows people are watching right now started as books, and several of those titles have audiobook editions that stand on their own. This guide shows where each series comes from, how the seasons line up with the books, and what to know about the audio versions, including narrators and full‑cast recordings. Links to the regular print and Kindle editions are included for readers who prefer the books themselves.

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The Shows, and the Books Behind Them

Off Campus Off Campus Prime Video · Scripted · Drama · Premiered May 13 IMDb Watch on Prime Video

Off Campus quickly became one of Prime Video’s standout hits of the month, pulling in strong viewership and high audience ratings. The series follows two Briar University students whose lives collide in an unexpected way. Hannah Wells is a focused music major who avoids the school’s hockey culture entirely. Garrett Graham is the hockey team’s star center, known for his confidence and reputation. They enter into a simple agreement to help each other with separate problems, but the arrangement gradually develops into something deeper.

The show is adapted from The Deal, the first novel in Elle Kennedy’s bestselling Off-Campus series, which already has a large built-in fanbase. That existing popularity helped drive the show’s early success and contributed to its strong reception.

Read the Off-Campus Series by Elle Kennedy

The Off-Campus book series spans five books, each following a different couple within the same Briar University world. For new readers, the audiobooks are the easiest entry point. If you’re new to Audible, the intro offer is a cheap way to start listening, with a new audiobook each month and the full Plus catalog of podcasts and Originals. All formats are available below for anyone who wants to continue the story beyond the show.

The Deal by Elle Kennedy The Mistake by Elle Kennedy The Score by Elle Kennedy The Goal by Elle Kennedy The Legacy by Elle Kennedy
The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Hulu · Based on Margaret Atwood's novels · Drama IMDb

Margaret Atwood’s two novels are set in Gilead, a near-future theocracy that has stripped women of nearly every right. The Handmaid’s Tale follows Offred, assigned to bear children for a powerful household while she holds onto memories of the life and family she lost. The Testaments jumps ahead more than fifteen years and tells the story of the regime’s slow collapse through three narrators, one of them Aunt Lydia.

On audio, The Handmaid’s Tale is read by Claire Danes with a full cast and an afterword written by Atwood. The Testaments is performed by a cast that includes Ann Dowd, who plays Aunt Lydia on the show, along with Bryce Dallas Howard, Mae Whitman, and Derek Jacobi. The Hulu series adapted the first novel in its early seasons and then ran well past it, and The Testaments is being adapted as its own series, so reading both now is a way to get ahead of what is coming.

Read the Gilead Novels by Margaret Atwood

Two books, written decades apart but meant to be read in order. Both are on audio, and both are strong listens on their own.

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Boys The Boys Prime Video · Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comics · Action IMDb

Before the show, The Boys was a comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The core is the same: a CIA-backed crew led by Billy Butcher keeps tabs on superheroes who are propped up by a corporation and are mostly monsters behind the branding. The comic is harsher and stranger than the series and goes places the show does not.

If you want it in audio, GraphicAudio made a fully dramatized version, not a single reader but a cast with sound effects and a score. The run is collected in omnibus editions for print. Worth knowing going in: the show diverges from the comics early, so there is no tidy season-to-volume match. Read it as its own thing rather than a guide to the series.

Read the Comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson

The full run is gathered into six standard-sized omnibus volumes. The dramatized audio from GraphicAudio is split across volumes that line up with the print collections.

The Boys Omnibus Vol. 1 The Boys Omnibus Vol. 2 The Boys Omnibus Vol. 3
Good Omens Good Omens Prime Video · Based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel · Comedy IMDb

The single novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. An angel and a demon who have grown fond of life on Earth team up to stop the apocalypse after the Antichrist is misplaced as a baby. It is a comedy first, with the end of the world as the backdrop.

The full-cast audio edition puts Michael Sheen and David Tennant in the same roles they play on screen, with Rebecca Front narrating, so it sounds a lot like the show. There is also an older solo reading by Martin Jarvis. Season 1 of the series adapts the book closely, and the later episodes are an original story that picks up past where the novel ends.

Read Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

One book. The full-cast audio is the version most tied to the show.

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Reacher Reacher Prime Video · Based on Lee Child's novels · Action IMDb

Lee Child’s Jack Reacher is an ex-military police investigator who drifts around the country with no phone and no plan and keeps walking into trouble. The books are lean and fast, built around Reacher reading a situation quicker than anyone expects and handling it himself.

The show jumps around the series rather than going in order. Season 1 adapts Killing Floor, the first book; Season 2 takes Bad Luck and Trouble, the eleventh; Season 3 uses Persuader, the seventh. Killing Floor is still the place to start, and there are twenty-nine novels in all, so the show could run a long time.

Read the Jack Reacher Novels by Lee Child

Twenty-nine books and counting. These are the three the show has used so far. Start with Killing Floor.

Killing Floor by Lee Child Persuader by Lee Child Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
Slow Horses Slow Horses Apple TV+ · Based on Mick Herron's novels · Drama IMDb

Mick Herron’s Slough House novels follow the MI5 agents nobody wanted, parked in a dead-end department under Jackson Lamb, a brilliant and foul slob of a spymaster. The cases find them anyway, and the books mix real spy plotting with sharp comedy.

The show adapts the novels in order, one per season: Slow Horses (Season 1), Dead Lions (Season 2), Real Tigers (Season 3), Spook Street (Season 4), and London Rules (Season 5). Gary Oldman, who plays Lamb, has also played le Carré’s George Smiley on film and has called Herron’s books the heir, in a way, to le Carré. Nine novels so far, so the show has plenty left to pull from.

Read the Slough House Novels by Mick Herron

Nine books, adapted in order. The first five line up with the show’s five seasons so far.

Slow Horses by Mick Herron Dead Lions by Mick Herron Real Tigers by Mick Herron Spook Street by Mick Herron London Rules by Mick Herron

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The Lincoln Lawyer The Lincoln Lawyer Netflix · Based on Michael Connelly's novels · Drama IMDb

Michael Connelly’s Mickey Haller is a Los Angeles defense lawyer who works out of the back seat of a Lincoln, taking the cases other attorneys will not and working the edges of the system. The novels are tight courtroom thrillers.

Netflix adapts the books out of order and skips a couple. Season 1 is The Brass Verdict (book 2), Season 2 is The Fifth Witness (book 4), Season 3 is The Gods of Guilt (book 5), and Season 4 is The Law of Innocence (book 6). There are eight Haller novels in all, so the books double as a map of where the show is heading.

Read the Mickey Haller Novels by Michael Connelly

Eight books. The show adapts them out of order, with the season each one maps to noted below.

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly The Gods of Guilt by Michael Connelly The Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly
Dune: Prophecy Dune: Prophecy HBO / Max · Based on Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's novel · Sci-Fi IMDb

The series goes back roughly ten thousand years before the films, to the early days of the Bene Gesserit, the order that trains its members in near-superhuman control of body and mind. It draws on Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the first book of their Great Schools of Dune trilogy.

The audiobook is narrated by Scott Brick, who has read much of the wider Dune catalog, so it fits with the rest if you keep going. Season 1 takes its starting point from Sisterhood of Dune, with the other two trilogy books carrying the story forward.

Read the Great Schools of Dune Trilogy

Three books. Sisterhood of Dune is the one the series starts from.

Sisterhood of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Mentats of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson Navigators of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
Interview with the Vampire Interview with the Vampire AMC · Based on Anne Rice's novels · Drama IMDb

Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is the first of The Vampire Chronicles. Louis, turned two hundred years earlier, tells his story to a reporter: his maker Lestat, the child vampire Claudia, and a long stretch of immortality across New Orleans and Europe.

Simon Vance narrates this book and several others in the series, so a long run of it holds together on audio. The AMC show draws on the novel for its first season and keeps going from there. Thirteen books make up The Vampire Chronicles in all.

Read The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

Thirteen books in all. These are the early ones; start with Interview with the Vampire.

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
The Witcher The Witcher Netflix · Based on Andrzej Sapkowski's novels · Fantasy IMDb

Andrzej Sapkowski’s saga follows Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter for hire in a world where the line between monsters and people is thin. It began as short stories before turning into a multi-book arc about Geralt, the sorceress Yennefer, and the child Ciri.

Start with The Last Wish, the short-story collection that introduces Geralt and that the show’s first season leaned on, then Sword of Destiny, then the five-novel saga in order. Season of Storms is a later standalone set earlier in the timeline.

Read the Witcher Books by Andrzej Sapkowski

Two short-story collections, then the five-book saga, plus a standalone. The Last Wish is the entry point.

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski
Bridgerton Bridgerton Netflix · Based on Julia Quinn's novels · Romance IMDb

Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels give each of the eight Bridgerton siblings their own Regency romance, set in a heightened version of London’s marriage market. The show follows the same idea, taking a different couple each season.

Season 1 is The Duke and I (Daphne), Season 2 is The Viscount Who Loved Me (Anthony), and Season 3 is Romancing Mister Bridgerton (Penelope and Colin). Rosalyn Landor narrates the whole series on audio, so all eight books share one voice. Eight books, one per sibling.

Read the Bridgerton Novels by Julia Quinn

Eight books, one for each Bridgerton sibling. The season each adapted one maps to is noted below.

The Duke and I by Julia Quinn The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

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