10 Classic Black Books That Should Be Made Into Films

My Soul to Keep/The Living Blood

by Tananarive Due

I don’t just want to see this book become a film just because her first name is the capital of Madagascar and I love saying “Tananarive.” But because this series is actually pretty awesome. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s really a simple love story: girl meets boy; boy is everything she has ever wanted in a man so she marries him; girl later finds out that boy is a 400 year old Ethiopian immortal and he wants to make her, and their child, immortal too. Yup, just your typical romance novel.

Seriously though, narratives around Black people are sorely missing in the horror/sci-fi film genre. So seeing both of these books turn into film, would be nothing short of revolutionary. And good watching too.