I can't comment on this list because there's none that I've both read the book and seen the movie. So it got me thinking of books/movies I have read/seen. I'm old and I like creepy stuff, so here are my favourite book into movie adaptations: Jaws, The Godfather, The Exorcist, The Omen, The Shining, The Poseidon Adventure, Rosemary's Baby, American Psycho, Silence of the Lambs. In most cases I love both the book and the movie and couldnt really say which is better.

Up today, the only book that I think was better on the movie (or TV) was "The Pillars of the Earth".

I would say I'm 99% in favor of the books over movies because so much nuance gets cut between page and script, and that 1% is reserved for cases where really terrible books were made in surprisingly good movies. For instance, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was literally a cut-and-paste job of Jane Austen's brilliance and the zombie author's mediocrity but the movie did a good job of not taking itself too seriously and was a fun mix of humor and action. Bridget Jones's Diary too. Awful book, decently funny movie (is it obvious I took a Pride and Prejudice in Adaption course in college?)

They didn't add Stardust ☹️