Amazon snags rights to Leigh Bardugo’s new book Ninth House

By Mads Lennon | Oct 11, 2019

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Fans of the Grishaverse should get excited. Amazon is set to develop a television series based on Leigh Bardugo’s new novel for adults, Ninth House.

Amazon is determined to break into the young adult demographic. Right now, many fans turn to places like The CW, Freeform, Hulu, and Netflix to get their fix but Amazon has an appealing slate in production and it’s just added another gem. Leigh Bardugo’s first novel for adults, Ninth House, is being developed into an Amazon Original series.

In even better news, Deadline reports that Leigh Bardugo herself will serve as an executive producer on the show in addition to writing the adaptation. Ninth House is set in an alternate universe version of the ivy-league university, Yale. Bardugo herself attended Yale. In this version of the college campus, a secret society exists that guards against magic and ghosts.

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Considering how successful her other books have been, it comes as no surprise that there was a bidding war launched for rights to Ninth House. Netflix is currently in the process of producing a series based on her Grishaverse fantasy novels featuring the first book, Shadow and Bone, and her Six of Crows Duology.

Ninth House has received glowing endorsements from other notable authors like Stephen King, Joe Hill, and Charlaine Harris. The book already has an order of more than 350,000 for its first print. You can imagine why every network from HBO to Hulu was salivating for the rights to this story.

Bardugo will executive produce alongside Pouya Shahbazian, who is also serving as an executive producer on the upcoming Love, Simon series at Disney+.

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Are you looking forward to seeing Ninth House adapted into a television series? Are you a fan of Leigh Bardugo’s other novels? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

Ninth House is currently available to purchase on Amazon and other book retailers.

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