A cynical journalist charts the meteoric rise and corrupt, tragic fall of a populist Louisiana governor loosely based on Huey Long.

Young Scout Finch watches her lawyer father defend a Black man falsely accused of a terrible crime.

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987) 

A formerly enslaved woman is haunted by the literal ghost of the infant she killed to save from a life of bondage.e 

A spiritually alienated New Orleans stockbroker searches for meaning through movies and aimless wandering during Mardi Gras. 

An unnamed Black man navigates shifting forms of systemic racism from a rural college to the streets of Harlem.

The aristocratic Compson family spirals into tragic decay, told through the fractured perspectives of three brothers.

Through letters to God, an abused Black woman in rural Georgia slowly discovers her self-worth and independence over decades.

A ruthless, pragmatic Southern belle fights to save her Georgia plantation during and after the Civil War.

Thomas Sutpen ruthlessly builds a Mississippi plantation dynasty that ultimately collapses under the weight of its own sins.

Phillip Carver is called back to Memphis by his elderly sisters to stop their father's remarriage.

Janie Crawford journeys through three marriages toward fierce independence in the Florida Everglades and Eatonville.

A deaf-mute man becomes the silent confidant for four desperate, lonely outcasts in a Georgia mill town.