None ever did

For me it's the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown.

The Laundry by Charles Stross

Two Journeys by Clemens P. Suter. Definitely.

The whole bobiverse series.

Anyways, almost any book could be made into a fun series, because most books are well-written.

the Amber books

I'd absolutely love it if Star Trek (not Alex Kurtzmen) adapted the Corp of Engineers books.

The original ebook series would slot in perfectly with a 20ish episode a year release cycle, and the plots/characters are already developed, you just need to script them out.

Each book is a "problem of the week" style story, with that classic Star Trek (not Alex Kurtzmen) style character development, based on the main problem of the episode.

But, until Kurtzmen, or the mouth-breathers that keep him employed, get hit by a bus we'll never know how well it could be adapted...

i would watch the shit out of that

fantastic land

The Cliff Hardy series by Peter Corris. (We’ll just ignore the horrible movie of The Empty Beach).

Sandman Slim, it is stuck in development. If done correctly, it could be awesome.

I think the Stephanie Plum novels would make a fun TV series.

I'd watch a series based on Joe Pickett novels

I feel like the Chronicles of Amber would do better as a two season mini series.

Diane Duane's young wizard series as an animated movie could be great.

Although I wish Amazon instead of making that stupid rings of power or whatever the fuck it was, I wish they had adapted Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.

This is a pretty basic answer but The Dark Elf Trilogy could be incredible on film if done properly. Drizzt's early life is one of my favorite character arcs in fiction and Menzoberranzan is an exceptionally interesting society. It could even just be a series mostly focused on the first book and then ends when he leaves the city or when he goes topside so they could really flesh out just how fucked the dark elves are.

I’d like one season per book, one episode per chapter.

I read a lot of books. I don't know that I agree most are well written, lol.

Stephen Colbert was going to produce the series a couple years ago, but he seems to have moved on since then :(

Peter Watts “Starfish”and its sequels would be great TV.

https://newbookrecommendation.com/summary-of-starfish-by-peter-watts-a-detailed-synopsis/

I’ve always had a dream of watching Rendezvous with Rama but it’s been in development for a long time.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134933/

There Is No Antimemetics Division.

My first choice as well

No way. There's not enough material in the books to go one episode per chapter.

I will admit it's been a while since I've read them, but I remember it being a very fast read. Like, I think it only took me two days to read all of them.

Quick update. When I talk about having read all of them, I'm talking about the two book club series books that contained apparently the first five novels in approximately 600 pages.

I have the books that followed that, and I've not read them yet, so maybe make it a three season mini series.

that could be right

I haven’t read the books in a long time

I’d still enjoy ten seasons in a fictional universe I love

It was always going to be a tough ask. I just finished reading the Corwin series again.

It would be difficult to adapt for a mainstream TV audience. A lot would probably need to change and that could lead to alienating the book lovers.

Yes, I would love to see a TV series. But only if it was done well with a budget large enough to do it justice.

The Dragonriders of Pern books need adapted.

They tried making a Stephanie Plum movie. I wouldn’t blame you if you had no idea. I haven’t seen it but by all accounts it was a train wreck.

Really?

The stories are simple and the characters are great how do you screw that up?

You're in luck!
Series..
Short film.

I'm still disappointed they botched the Wheel of Time. Like, right from the very beginning, that started making really questionable choices. I wish they'd do it animated because one, that'd make the magic way cheaper, and two, it'd make it feasible to grapple with the sheer size of the series.

Squirrel Girl could be good.

I think Adrien Tchaikovsky’s book series The Tyrant Philosophers would be awesome. The first book has an insane amount of characters including nearly forgotten gods, monsters, criminals, heroes, and villains.

I’d really love to see the Wild Cards (compilation series edited by George RR Martin) get something too. It’s a top-tier take on the supe genre.

Agreed, but we almost had a Rings of Power/Wheel of Time type version. Fortunately Anne McCaffrey was still alive and in control and told the network fuck off and pulled the rights. I don't recall which network, doesn't matter much, they're all the same. They wanted to turn it into a teen YA romance thingy (which some of them have that a bit, but it's part of the whole thing). The good thing is the CGI then wouldn't have been great, it would have been like the Dune TV series. But if they had mutilated the actual lore and story, that would have been terrible.

Oh, if only.

Neil Stephenson's snowcrash would be interesting.

I feel like most of the people with money would just play it up to be super cool instead of a dystopia. And given the Epstein stuff, not lightly edit it so the girl is of appropriate age.

I feel like my hero academia would have potential to be a cool tv series.

True it could go really wrong but if done right it would be a really good satire.

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch would make an excellent movie. Maybe a bit too on the nose for these times. His novel Grace could also be amazing as a film or limited series.

Wild Cards was last seen being passed on by Peacock.

The Little Engine that Could. It will be a big budget 10 hour (12 hour extended cut) long epic spanning across three movies, directed by Peter Jackson.

Hyperion.

The first law

I'd watch Robert Asprin's MythAdventures as a show.

Wheel of time. No, that garbage they tried at Amazon doesn't count.

World War Z - needs to be done properly tied closely to the book as a short TV series.

I wish they could finish the Expanse. That was a pretty good adaptation as far as they got, and the books really tie everything very nicely together toward the end (as well as get kind of crazy)

I'm surprised how that hasn't been a thing yet considering how big the story is.

The Dark Tower. There is a film of the same name, but it has literally nothing to do with the masterpiece of literature that is the book series. A series would be how it should be done.

Seriously, fuck that movie. I know Stephen King always gets screwed by film adaptations, but even Ender’s Game was a more accurate telling of the books. Not even the Ender’s Game books, I mean Ender’s Game was a better film adaptation of The Dark Tower books than The Dark Tower movie was. I was in seat 19, that was the closest I got to seeing any material from the books in that piece of shit movie. They even had my ideal casting for Roland and The Man In Black, what a gods damned waste.

Neil Stephenson's The Diamond Age

Bruce Sterling's Involution Ocean

Agreed. The underdark portion of his life would make for and excellent TV adaption.

HOWEVER

I don't trust the current climate of TV production to pull it off properly. In all likelihood, if produced today, it'd end up as a Netflix series (or similar series) where the streaming format would throw off pacing, and after completing a season of sticking to the story, any subsequent seasons would stray far away from Salvatores stories in an effort to have mass appeal.

I think it would have worked 15-20 years ago. Not before, as the CGI necessary wasn't there yet. Not later because formulaic streamability would ruin it (along with Netflix-lighting, ugh).

Maybe it would work again at some point in the future once the current trend of algorithmic slop has gone away.