7 Oscar Nominees You Never Knew Were Based on Books

You may know this Oscar-winning adaptation by another name: Slumdog Millionaire. In this stunning debut novel, Ram Mohammad Thomas, a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper, is being questioned by police in a Mumbai jail cell. They find it suspicious that he was able to answer all 12 questions correctly on a game show. But through a series of stories, Ram explains how life in the streets gave him the answers he needed.