Film adaptations of well known books are always controversial. One of the most frequent complaints is that it is difficult to capture all of the characters, storylines and details from a novel in a two-hour feature film. Some famous novels either have never been adapted or were hacked to pieces to squeeze them into a film format, rendering them nearly unrecognizable — and all because they are, simply put, too epic.

But in recent years, the TV miniseries has raised its profile thanks to such efforts as Top of the Lake and True Detective, so why not give some of these “unfilmable” books the miniseries treatment? These are 10 great novels (or series of novels) that, in our humble opinion, would make great miniseries: