All the James Bond books that have been made into movies

“My name is Bond, James Bond”, is one of the most iconic movie dialogues of all time. James Bond, the dapper and suave spy, and the face behind these lines is the most recognizable and enduring characters both on screen and on the page. The character was created by Ian Fleming, English author and journalist and became the protagonist for most of his works. In the books, and in the movies, Bond is a British spy who is deployed around the world on daring missions to protect Her Majesty’s government. The character of Bond became a living legend in 1962, when the first ‘007’ movie hit the theatres and became an instant sensation that captured hearts. Since then, the agent’s reputation has become known worldwide and has made household names out of the actors cast as the spy, from Roger Moore to Daniel Craig.

Here is a list of James Bond books that were later made into movies:

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The sixth novel by Ian Fleming, written in 1958, the novel centres on Bond's investigation into the disappearance in Jamaica of two fellow MI6 operatives. He establishes that they had been investigating Doctor No, a Chinese operator of a guano mine on the fictional Caribbean island of Crab Key. Bond travels to the island and meets Honeychile Rider and later Doctor No.

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Published in 1957, the novel deals with the East–West tensions of the Cold War, and the decline of British power and influence in the post-Second World War era. The story centres on a plot by SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence agency, to assassinate Bond in such a way as to discredit both him and his organization.

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The seventh novel in the series, story centres on the investigation of Bond into the gold smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation. However, Bond uncovers a much larger plot: Goldfinger plans to steal the gold reserves of the United States from Fort Knox.

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Published in 1961, the story centres on the theft of two atomic bombs by the crime syndicate SPECTRE and the subsequent attempted blackmail of the Western powers for their return. James Bond, Secret Service operative 007, travels to the Bahamas to work with his friend Felix Leiter, seconded back into the CIA for the investigation.

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The last Fleming novel published in his lifetime, the novel deals on a personal level with the change in Bond from a depressed man in mourning, to a man of action bent on revenge, to an amnesiac living as a Japanese fisherman. Through the mouths of his characters, Fleming also examines the decline of post-World War II British power and influence, notably in relation to the United States.

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The second book in the Blofeld trilogy, the story centres on Bond's ongoing search to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the Thunderball incident; through contact with the College of Arms in London, Bond finds Blofeld based in Switzerland.

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The novel centres on Bond's investigation of a diamond-smuggling operation that originates in the mines of Sierra Leone and runs to Las Vegas. Along the way Bond meets and falls in love with one of the members of the smuggling gang, Tiffany Case.

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Published in 1954, the novel dealt with the themes of the ongoing East-West struggle of the Cold War, including British and American relations, Britain's position in the world, race relations, and the struggle between good and evil.

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Published eight months after Fleming’s death, the story centres on Bond, who had been posted missing, presumed dead, after his last mission in Japan. He returns to Britain via the Soviet Union, where he had been brainwashed to attempt to assassinate his superior, M.

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The novel is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as a clear departure from previous Bond novels in that the story is told in the first person by a young Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel. Bond himself does not appear until two-thirds of the way through the book.

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Uniquely for a Bond novel, the novel is set entirely in Britain and the plot is derived from a Fleming screenplay that was too short for a full novel so he added the passage of the bridge game between Bond and the industrialist Hugo Drax.

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Surprisingly, it is a collection of short stories featuring James Bond. The collection contains five short stories: ‘From a View to a Kill’, ‘For Your Eyes Only’, ‘Quantum of Solace’, ‘Risico’ and ‘The Hildebrand Rarity’.

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The book is a collection of short stories and originally contained two stories, ‘Octopussy’ and ‘The Living Daylights’, with subsequent editions also carrying firstly ‘The Property of a Lady’ and then ‘007 in New York’.

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Published in 1953, the story concerns Bond’s, gambling at the casino in Royale-les-Eaux to bankrupt Le Chiffre, the treasurer of a French union and a member of the Russian secret service.

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