The Notebook has also been adapted into a musical, featuring music and lyrics by Ingrid Michaelson. His twenty-third novel, Dreamland, was published on September 20, 2022.įilm adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, including The Choice, The Longest Ride, The Best of Me, Safe Haven (on all of which he served as a producer), The Lucky One, Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe, Dear John and The Last Song, have had a cumulative worldwide gross of over three-quarters of a billion dollars.

It was published in 1996 and he followed with the novels Message in a Bottle (1998), A Walk to Remember (1999), The Rescue (2000), A Bend in the Road (2001), Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Guardian (2003), The Wedding (2003), True Believer (2005) and its sequel, At First Sight (2005), Dear John (2006), The Choice (2007), The Lucky One (2008), The Last Song (2009), Safe Haven (2010), The Best of Me (2011), The Longest Ride (2013), See Me (2015), Two by Two (2016), Every Breath (2018), The Return (2020), and The Wish (2021) as well as the 2004 non-fiction memoir Three Weeks With My Brother, co-written with his brother Micah. Sparks wrote one of his best-known stories, The Notebook, over a period of six months at age 28. All of his books have been New York Times bestsellers, with over 105 million copies sold worldwide, in more than 50 languages, including over 75 million copies in the United States alone.

In John’s words, “love means that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” This book is not your traditional love story and you will find your heart aching for each character in the book.Nicholas Sparks is one of the world’s most beloved storytellers. Yet, one thing remains constant through the whole book, love and the meaning of it. Because of this one choice he is then forced to make several decisions that were even harder than the first. His decision makes the world around him change forever. However, just when John is about to return home from the army the horrible and striking day of 9/11 faced every soldier with a choice between love and serving America. It seems that their love will be indestructible as John is required to return to the army and Savannah promises to wait. As they fall in love during the warm summer months, they become inseparable. The love story between Savannah and John begins when John is home on a leave from the army. Nicholas Sparks has a way of writing that truly makes the characters jump out of the book, they seem real and alive. Dear John was an excellent book that really showed what the true meaning of love is.

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