Title (link)

Author

Media

Notes

The Adamant Girl

P. S. Vinothraj, screenplay, director

movie

Won Jury prize in Transylvania Film Festival

Girls Will Be Girls

Shuchi Talati, writer, director

movie

Coming of age story; won the Audience Award at 2024 Sundance Film Festival and the Trophy (top prize) at the Transylvania Film Festival

Firekeepers Daughter - cf. Quest for Fire

Angeline Boulley

book

Native American author from Michigan

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

Lisa See

book

historical fiction

Island of Sea Women

Lisa See

book

historical fiction

I Made Lemonade

Ela Pandya

book

biography

Island of Missing Trees

Elif Shafak

book

novel

Babylon Berlin

 

series

period drama. 4 seasons - Netflix or Prime

Rose

Niels Arden Oplev, writer, director

movie

about 2 sisters who travel to Paris

Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

Lili Horvát, director

movie

Budapest movie - two psychologists agree to meet in a year

The Invisible Bridge

Julie Orringer

movie

Holocaust-revelatory book set in Budapest (and Paris)

From Scratch

 

series

romance in Italy. Netflix

Upstanding

Alexandre Sibomana, director

movie

true story in Rwanda

Vagina Obscura

Rachel E. Gross

book

A myth-busting voyage into the female body.

Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

James McBride

book

The novel tells the story of Black and Jewish residents of the Chicken Hill neighborhood of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in the 1920s and '30s.

The Pub Across the Pond

Mary Carter

book

Novel set in Ohio and Ireland

Thelma

Josh Margolin, director

movie

93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston

book, film

Journey of self-discovery and search for independence and love

Killers of the Flower Moon

David Grann

movie, book

Based on murders of Osage members and relations in the Osage Nation after oil was discovered on tribal land