List #3: 5 Things to Read Before the Book/Movie/Musical Comes Out

1. If you haven't already, fall in love with Hyperbole and a Half (Rec. #7) now, because yay! she's writing a book. It's currently scheduled to be released in the fall of 2012.

2. Case Histories (Rec. #3) and One Good Turn (Rec. #69) are technically already out in the U.K. as part of the new series Case Histories. But you still have time before the show hits the U.S.

3. Tales of the City (Rec. #67) is now a musical. I am surprised it took this long to happen.

4. Catch up on all the content on the Hark! A Vagrant website (Rec. #95) before Kate Beaton's book is published this fall.

5. Read Cloud Atlas (Rec. #140) now. The film adaptation is coming out next year and, as I mentioned in my original post, you don't want to be the only one without something to say about how they got it wrong.