Every Great Gatsby adaptation, in one list
All 29 of them, spanning 1926 to 2026: editions of the novel and its earlier draft, the 1926 stage script, four films and a television film, a documentary, a Broadway cast album, orchestral music from an opera, three graphic novels, retellings, and two books about where the novel came from. Grouped by how you’d take each one in, oldest to newest inside each group. Every entry has its own guide.
Read
The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script1926
Owen Davis’s stage version, which ran on Broadway the year after the novel came out, printed for the first time.
Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby2002
The complete draft Fitzgerald sent his editor, before he rewrote it in proof.
The Scribner paperback (“The Only Authorized Edition”)2004
The novel from its first publisher, with an introduction by Jesmyn Ward.
The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Adaptation (Nicki Greenberg)2009
The novel played out by a cast of fantastical creatures in 1920s New York.
So We Read On by Maureen Corrigan2014
A critic’s book about how the novel came to be and why people keep reading it.
Careless People by Sarah Churchwell2014
The autumn of 1922, a double murder in New Jersey, and the novel that came out of that year.
Great by Sara Benincasa2014
A teenage girl spends a summer in the Hamptons and gets caught up in a scandal.
The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel (Fred Fordham and Aya Morton, 2020)2020
The novel as a graphic novel, adapted by Fred Fordham and drawn by Aya Morton.
The Penguin Classics edition, introduction by Min Jin Lee2021
The novel with notes by Philip McGowan and an introduction by Min Jin Lee.
The Norton Critical Edition, ed. David Alworth2021
The 1925 text with Fitzgerald’s letters, his sources and a century of critics bound in.
The Everyman’s Library hardcover2021
A cloth hardcover with a ribbon marker and an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury.
The Great Gatsby: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (K. Woodman-Maynard, 2021)2021
The novel painted in watercolour by K. Woodman-Maynard.
The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo2021
Jordan Baker tells it: queer, Vietnamese, adopted, and able to do magic.
Nick by Michael Farris Smith2021
Nick Carraway before West Egg: the trenches, Paris and New Orleans.
The Cambridge Edition, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli2022
The text rebuilt from the manuscript and the surviving proofs.
Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor2022
Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle’s sister, in the years before the summer of 1922, and a detective asking who shot Gatsby.
Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore2022
Nick is a seventeen-year-old trans boy, Daisy is passing as white, and Gatsby shares Nick’s secret.
The Cambridge Centennial Edition2025
A hardcover for the novel’s hundredth year, with illustrations and the history around it.
Gatsby by Jane Crowther2026
A gender-flipped Gatsby now: Nic is a woman, Gatsby is an it-girl, and the old flame is Danny Buchanan.
Watch
The Great Gatsby (1949), with Alan Ladd1949
Alan Ladd as Gatsby, in the earliest film of the novel that survives.
The Great Gatsby (1974), with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow1974
Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, from a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola.
The Great Gatsby (2000 television film)2000
Toby Stephens, Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd, in a ninety-minute film for the BBC and A&E.
G2002
The story moved to the Hamptons, with a hip-hop star in Gatsby’s place.
The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013)2013
Leonardo DiCaprio, the parties at full volume, and songs executive-produced by Jay-Z.
Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story2020
A documentary about the summer the Fitzgeralds spent in Westport, Connecticut.
Listen
John Harbison: The Great Gatsby Suite (Albany Symphony Orchestra)2005
Orchestral music from John Harbison’s opera of the novel.
The audiobook read by Jake Gyllenhaal2013
The novel read aloud by Jake Gyllenhaal.
Music from Baz Luhrmann’s Film The Great Gatsby2013
The songs from the 2013 film, on one album.
The Great Gatsby: A New Musical — Original Broadway Cast Recording2024
Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada as Gatsby and Daisy, on the Broadway musical’s cast album.
Also out there, and not the pick
These come up when this novel does. None of them is on the list above, and here is the reason for each.
Gatz (Elevator Repair Service)
A stage production in which a cast in an office reads the whole novel aloud, word for word: about six hours of performance, eight with the dinner break. It is down here because it exists only live. The company’s page listed no upcoming dates when checked on 22 October 2026; the last run found was in Ann Arbor in March 2026.
The Great Gatsby (Northern Ballet)
David Nixon’s ballet, to music by Richard Rodney Bennett, toured the UK in 2023. It is down here because it can only be seen live, and Northern Ballet’s page listed no dates and no recording when checked on 22 October 2026.
Gatsby: An American Myth (American Repertory Theater, 2024)
A musical with songs by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett and a book by Martyna Majok, staged at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from May to August 2024. It is down here because the run has closed and no recording has been released. A London reading was announced in 2025.
The Great Gatsby for NES (browser game, 2011)
A 2011 browser game made to look like a long-lost NES cartridge. It is down here because its site could not be confirmed as playable when checked on 22 October 2026: one fetch returned an emulator page, and a browser could not load it.
The one nobody can watch
The first film of the novel, released by Paramount in 1926 and directed by Herbert Brenon, is lost. Only a one-minute trailer survives; the Library of Congress preserves it, and it is included as a special feature on the Warner Blu-ray of the 2013 film.
If you want the novel itself
Which edition should you read? puts Scribner, Penguin, the Norton, the Cambridge editions and the rest side by side.