Good Girls Revolt. Poster of the 2015 TV series and cover of the 2012 book, The Good Girls Revolt
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The Good Girls Revolt
Lynn Povich, 2012
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Dana Calvo, 2015-2016

The series follows a group of young female researchers at News of the Week magazine in the revolutionary times of 1969. Women in the newsroom are relegated to low-level positions. Many researchers are more talented and better educated than their male counterparts, and do writing that the reporters incorporate directly into their stories, yet are paid less.


Freedom Writers. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the 1999 book, The Freedom Writers Diary
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The Freedom Writers Diary
Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers, 1999
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Richard LaGravenese, 2007

In 1994 in Long Beach, California, Erin Gruwell has been accepted to teach English for at-risk students at Woodrow Wilson High School—a once highly acclaimed school which has declined since voluntary integration had been enforced. Erin struggles to form a connection with her students and observes numerous fights between some of them, who are in rival gangs.


Still Alice. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 2007 book
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Still Alice
Lisa Genova, 2007
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Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, 2014

Alice Howland, a linguistics professor at Columbia University, celebrates her 50th birthday with her physician husband John and their three adult children. She hides sleeping pills in her room, and records a video message instructing her future self to commit suicide by overdosing on the pills when she can no longer answer the questions.


Ratched. Poster of the 2020 TV series and cover of the 1962 book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey, 1962
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Ryan Murphy, Evan Romansky, 2020-

The backstory of Mildred Ratched, an asylum nurse who arrives in Northern California in 1947 to work at a psychiatric hospital where disturbing experiments on the human mind are taking place. Mildred presents herself as a model nurse, but her true intentions are to infiltrate the mental health care system and the people within it. As she delves deeper, her true nature is revealed, showing that monsters are created, not born.


The Other Black Girl. Poster of the 2023 TV series and cover of the 2021 book
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The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris, 2021
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Mariama Diallo, Aurora Guerrero, Naima Ramos-Chapman, 2023-

The journey of Nella, an African-American editorial assistant employed at a publishing company in New York City dominated by white colleagues. Nella’s enthusiasm grows when Hazel, a new black co-worker, joins the team, but the question remains: is Hazel an ally or adversary?