The overlooked person responsible for an archaeological find with extraordinary historical significance is finally given proper credit in this work of fiction.

A journalist’s account of transient older Americans who live out of vans to obtain seasonal employment, focusing on Linda May, a 64 year-old grandmother, whose home is a second-hand jeep.

Winner of the Man Booker Prize, this dark comedic story follows the rise of a poor villager to a successful entrepreneur in modern day India.

Blues singer Ma Rainey joins her band in a Chicago music studio for a tense recording session. This is one of the playwright’s ten Century Cycle or Pittsburgh plays that document the African American experience decade by decade during the twentieth century.

Beth Harmon learns to play chess from the janitor at her Kentucky orphanage where habit forming sedatives are doled out to all of the children. Beth’s brilliance at the game permit her to compete internationally at the highest level, an unheard-of accomplishment for a female chess player in the 1960s.

The Father, available together with the play The Mother, is a powerfully disorienting story of dementia that involves a father and his daughter.

This play brings to life a conversation on February 25, 1964 between Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Singer Sam Cooke, and football star Jim Brown. The four friends met in a hotel room to discuss segregation on the night that the boxer won the heavyweight championship.

A widower who reads news stories to gatherings of people is asked to deliver a ten year-old orphan from Wichita Falls to her relatives near San Antonio. Living with Kiowa who raised her as their own after killing her parents and sister, the girl she has no interest in travelling with this man who speaks a language she doesn’t understand.

Marriage prospects for debutants in 19th century Britain is the focus of this purely fictional romance series. The popular TV series, unlike the novels, casts Black actors as members of the royalty and aristocrats.

An assistant district attorney in a small Massachusetts County comes across a case in which his beloved son is charged with murder.

A flight attendant wakes up in a Dubai hotel room lying in bed next to a dead man and a pile of blood. She is too drunk to remember what happened the night before.

Obstacles keep arising, preventing the end of the world.

A 30-something list-making record store owner examines his previously failed relationships.

An identical twin who protects his paranoid schizophrenic brother feels both loving and resentful.

In 1954 a twenty-two-year-old Army veteran travels from Chicago to New England to find his missing father. He encounters horrors of Jim Crow America and of an H.P. Lovecraft tale.

Sally Rooney’s immensely popular novel, Normal People, is a tale of deep friendship and irresistible love. Connell and Marianne are unlikely friends but the popular boy and the wallflower find an unexpected connection when they first talk. When they head to Trinity College together, their roles reverse and their profound connection is tested. At the root of their mutual fascination lies an intense friendship, but will that be enough to overcome their vast differences? The Hulu show Normal People is a limited series based on Rooney’s book. 

Overwhelming evidence links a man to a grisly murder, but camera footage also shows the accused miles away at the same time.

A memoir of a woman who grew up in a Hasidic community in Brooklyn and left her arranged marriage and the community after the birth of her son.

Clouds is based a mother’s biography of her son, Zach Sobiech, a seventeen year old cancer patient who wrote an inspiring song when told he had a year to live.

The Midnight Sky is based on the author’s debut novel in which a solitary, aging astronomer and an astronaut on her return from Jupiter ponder the impact of their life’s work in the context of the end of the world.

The movie Greyound is based on this historical novel that recounts a sea captain’s task during World War II of leading a convoy of ships through the Atlantic Ocean having to fend off German submarines.

The Mauritanian is based on this true account of being detained for years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba without being charged for any crime by the U.S. government.

First Cow is adapted from this novel and focuses on two men in the Pacific Northwest, a cook for fur trappers and a Chinese immigrant, who form a business together. In the book, two female friends come across the remains of the men one hundred fifty years later.

The Glorias is based on this memoir of the feminist activist’s itinerant childhood followed by a career travelling for political campaigns and organizing. 

The Last Vermeer is a movie based on the biography that uncovers the motives behind the forgeries.

Penguin Bloom is based on the true story of a family that nursed an injured magpie back to health, giving them hope since the mother became paralyzed from a near fatal fall.

Fatherhood is based on this memoir written about the first year of being a father to a baby girl whose mother unexpectedly died the day after giving birth.

The Undoing TV series is based on this novel in which a therapist who cautions her clients not to delude themselves, finds that her own life is not what she thought it was.