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Skip to main content 28 Books Being Made Into Movies and TV Series That You Should Read Ahead of Their Release Anna Tingley, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail All products and services featured by Variety are independently selected by Variety editors. However, Variety may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Book lovers are in for a treat this year, with a jam-packed slate of upcoming movies based on best-selling books. More from Variety Whether you’re most excited to see Timothée Chalam...

Berkley I have a confession: I am not a fan of the passing trope. From Nella Larsen's 1929 classic, Passing, to the original Imitation of Life (the 1934 movie starred the incomparable Fredi Washington as Peola, the little girl who wanted to be white) to Britt Bennett's 2020 novel The Vanishing Half, the notion of a Black person posing as white to escape her Blackness just felt ... tired. "Deep down, all Black people want to be white." I heard that in a social psychology class, repeated as if it were a truism. It's not. At several points in childhood and as an adult, I've loved the noti...

Penny For Your Thoughts: We Love To Read January 2020 was the first time I heard the words “essential workers.” In early meetings with Emergency Services, I was informed that if we needed to go into a county wide shut down, governmental services that were not considered essential would be closed. By the end of February we were pretty sure that the shutdown was imminent and the word essential became more defined. We don’t often think about the daily business of a county or town, we know that it usually runs smoothly – and when it doesn’t, residents have the ability to help bring abou...

British writer tackles family and forgiveness in new novel

  In Saturday’s books pages, Keith Ridgway talks to John Self about A Shock, his first book in a long time; Anne MacManus talks to Una Mullally about her debut novel, Mother Mother; and David O’Doherty talks to Patrick Freyne about his new children’s book. Reviews are Una Mullally on Rememberings by Sinéad O’Connor; Niamh Donnelly on Trouble by Philip Ó Ceallaigh; Catherine Taylor on the best new fiction in translation; Kevin Gildea on The Stranger Times by CK McDonnell; Claire Connolly on The Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies, edited by Renée Fox...