Twilight. The Hunger Games. Harry Potter. Some of the most iconic literary titles in the YA canon have already become equally iconic films, and the list keeps growing: Divergent and The Mortal Instruments are just a few to come. But ask any avid reader, and you’re sure to hear about a whole slew of other titles that are absolutely meant for the silver screen. The following list is a selection of cherished books that are perfectly suited for cinematic adaptations, but for whatever reason, have yet to materialize. Some have even had long term options (when film studios buy up the rights to a book just so no one else can beat them to making the movie) placed on them, with nothing to show for it.

Which YA story would you like to see up on the big screen, in all its glory?

A.  The Iron Fey A Google search on this much-loved series by Julie Kagawa reveals not only the beautiful (and very cinematic) book covers, but also a plethora of enthusiastic support from the books many fans; there are even fan made mockups for a film poster. Packed with everything from a know-it-all cat to the quintessential forbidden love, Kagawa’s faerie series seems primed for a film version. Any day now!	B.  Anna and the French Kiss  Everyone who has read Stephanie Perkins’ delightful comedy agree that it would make a perfect teen rom-com, but somehow Hollywood has yet to take note. Fans have gone so far as to dream-cast their ideal version of the film, while the possibility of it actually happening remains elusive at best…
C.  A Great and Terrible Beauty Libba Bray’s resourceful, tortured and powerful heroine Gemma Doyle came very close to materializing on celluloid about 7 years ago, when Mel Gibson’s company Icon Productions snatched up the rights to this historical fiction series. Cut to years later, and no one was cast. IMDB now says the film is slated for 2015, so fingers are crossed and corsets are drawn…	D.  White Cat  The Curse Workers series proposes a world where those bestowed with magical abilities (called ‘workers’) are likened to covert criminals, since using their powers is against the law. Holly Black’s remarkable and very visual world, populated by protagonist Cassel Sharpe and ‘family’, is the exact type of stuff movies are made of, so here’s hoping the studios agree…
E.  The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger’s quintessential account of teen ennui revolving around Holden Caulfield and his internal intellectual meanderings has long been considered by most to be patently unfilmable, but that hasn’t stopped them before (take Cloud Atlas, for instance, as the most recent example). On and off the table in Hollywood as a possibility for decades, Catcher the film would surely meet with great controversy—mainly from those against the very idea of it.