Star Wars .... oh wait.

Rendevous With Rama
Necromancer (and all the Dorsai series)
Ringworld
2064
3001

Dark Tower books.
Forever War
Many PKD books.

Oh, now I REALLY need to read Jude if it's better than Tess...Tess was brilliant (though I'm STILL amazed at just how utterly shat upon poor Tess is nearly everyone in that book...I mean damn, short of a Shakespeare heroine a la Lavinia or Ophelia, that has to be one of the worst story lines and endings "life-wise" for a female character I've ever read in a book, I mean DAMN!) O.O

Though "Sons and Lovers" is next up on my list (finished "The Age of Innocence"--definitely a decent novel, I liked it far better than Wharton's "Ethan Frome," but how that won the Pulitzer and NOT F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" is just astounding, TSoP is nearly as good as Gatsby in my opinion, and where it still feels so fresh and vibrant and relevant, TAoI feels so rigid and musty by comparison, this from someone who, being a Shakespeare/Dostoyevsky/Milton fan, obviously has no problem with older books...reading "The Aeneid" now, which is refreshing, it's fun to see the Trojan/Greek conflict, a legendary cornerstone of all Western literature, told from the opposite end with the Trojans heroic and the Greeks assholes--and planning to kick off 2013 with Lawrence's work as it'll be it'll be a century since it'd been written, 1913 or so.)

After that, though...

American Gods
Some sort of condensed form of Codex of Alera
The rest of the Dark Materials trilogy (but better than The Golden Compass)
How To Survive In A Science-Fictional Universe
The Bible -- seriously, the whole bible. Split it into two films, Old Testament and New, make it a faithful retelling, and watch people go wide-eyed in horror at some of the shit that goes down in their holy book.
Pastwatch

Wheel of time series but doubtful can be done

WoT? I mean, hell, each book *by itself* has enough material to be a movie. I doubt it could be done meaningfully in less than 5 or so. It's probably better suited to a mini-series than movies.

Once you cut out all the waffle about smoothing skirts and bosoms the entire WoT series could fit into a half hour episode.

I don't really read because I am dyslexic and I don't really watch literary films because they are generally worse then the book.

So the answer to the question:
none, natta, not a single book I have read would make a good movie or it has already been made into a movie.

on second thought after reading the comments I second jmbostwick. The bible needs a movie.

Its the most sold book of all time

Haha at octavious. Robert jordan was always long winded. I read some of his other stuff. The man who took over since jordan died to finish wot is better at getting to the point

There is a Bible miniseries going to be on History Channel in March. I am interested to see how it is done. A Bible movie couldn't be very short. The book of Genesis alone could be at least a dozen movies.

Enders game

The bible has shit loads of movies. They just focus on Exodus, The birth of Jesus, and his death/resurrection.

"the curious incident of the dog in the night time" by Mark Haddon.

Hamlet, and some portions of The Sound and the Fury.

The definitive Hamlet has already been made by Kenneth Branagh.

Yeah, and that was a pretty boss movie (the language was actually made to feel completely natural, which was amazing) but I'm always down for a new Hamlet.

@Draug...agred, the Bible has movies that make a lot of mindless hollywood action flicks look like child's play. Magic/sorcery and godly miracles, murder, mayhem, wanton slaughter, sex and adultry. Which is why is hilarious when people talk about how wicked out society is. Uhhh....no, people have pretty much sucked ass *forever*, "...the Bible tells me so...." so the song goes (if you remember your sunday school kiddie songs....)

Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. It would make an epic war movie with today's special effects technology, and the storyline is compact enough for a three hour movie

Hrolf Kraki's Saga would make an epic film.

Also Roget's Thesaurus.

The Bible couldn't be a single movie or set of movies. A two- or three-part film covering the books of Samuel through to the beginning part of Solomon's reign could be truly fantastic, but it would be delicate work. A Lord of the Rings-style epic about Samson could be good.

My wife recommends The Red Tent, which I haven't read.

Walker Percy needs film treatment; I'm not aware of any of his books being turned into movies. I have worked out in my head a general treatment of Love in Ruins starring Ewan MacGregor, if he could do the accent right. The Moviegoer would be a tougher transition but could be better.

Any of the Dresden Files novels would make a great movie.

They did a film of the new testament, of course.

Hammer's Slammers would also make a great movie. For epic series, Harry Turtledove's Darkness novels would rock. But the Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality absolutely need to be put on the big screen.

Dresden was a TV show already.

Jamie -- Hollywood in the last few decades hasn't *touched* the Bible with anywhere near the attention (i.e. cash and special affects) that they give <insert 100's of movies here>.

Mel Gibson actually did a good job with "The Passion of the Christ", which frankly pised Hollywood off, especially when it made money. (And please don't go piling on Gibson here...it's not relevant to the topic).

The Book of Revelation alone is fodder for some amazing theorhetical movies on the end times. And no, Demi Moore in the Seventh Seal or whatever doesn't count.

A fantastic drama would be the story of Saul rounding up the Jews as a rich and powerful Pharisee, then being converted on the road to Damascus by heavenly intervention/blinding light, and subsequently giving up everything to travel the region preaching Christ, which earned him a hell of a lot of beat-downs, a good ship-wreck, a visit with the emperor, etc.

People loved Braveheart....the story of Paul is just as good, if not better.

some movies would make a better tv show than a movie. I was skeptical when the Song of Ice and Fire series was being made into Game of Thrones, but it turned out way better than I ever thought it could.

I got several historical ideas, but for HBO miniseries.

The best 2 are a series that covers the first 50 years of settlement in New England with all the politics, war and intrigue that entailed. Squanto finally returning home to find his entire village killed by disease, then setting out to form a new tribe should be enough to win an Emmy. Also Id love to Hate miles Standish on the TV screen

The second is based around the Haitian war of independence. It should be in foreign language with subtitles and should cover the whole period. The conflict is unbelievable and has dozens of twists and turns that involved 4 countries, several different ideologies and an underlying question of freedom vs. security. Both are also sufficiently dark for HBO

The conquest of Cortes.