With movies like On The Road and Howl picking up A-listers to star in their high-brow book adaptations and poetry biopics, it's starting to look more like film versions of literary fiction are no longer reserved solely for the basements of spectacle-wearing book buffs and college professor-types in leather-patched jackets. Nowadays, even us low-brows can get a piece of the action - and it's about time. This isn't because the new literature-based films are any better than before, no; it's because now they are finally getting the exposure they deserve, helped mostly by art-loving superstars like James Franco, who (love him or hate him) make it their business to do as many Howls as they do Spider-Mans. Yes: having to drag yourself through endless second-hand DVD shops to find a movie based on a William Faulkner novel could soon be a thing of the past. And you have to give these guys credit: in an industry dominated by cinematic blows-of-the-nose like Twilight, whose collective tag lines seem to be more "this'll do" than "this is awesome," you would think that something that doesn't feature vampires or transforming sports cars simply wouldn't have a shot of even making it to a movie executive's desk, let alone making it to the actual big screen. So the good-book-to-movie train is now rolling, and we're all here to lap up what comes out of it. Here's a list of the top 5 upcoming films based on (or around) literature powerhouses that we're getting psyched up about...