All the books by Tom Perrotta adapted to cinema and television, ranked

When 2% of the world’s population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they’re supposed to do about it. A group of people in a small New York community try to continue their lives while coping with the tragedy of the unexplained nature of the event.

Sarah Pierce is a hapless, stay-at-home mother in a small suburb of Boston. When Brad is supposed to be studying for the bar exam, he instead plays on a local football team or sits and watches teenagers skateboard outside his house, fantasizing about being young and carefree again.

Jim McAllister is a beloved civics teacher at an Omaha, Nebraska, high school. Sidelined because of a broken leg, Paul finds his candidacy gives him new purpose; it also infuriates Tracy, who resents Paul’s effortless popularity and privileged upbringing.

Mrs. Fletcher is a coming of age story of Mrs. Eve Fletcher and her son Brendan. Eve is a divorcée and is undergoing a mid-life crisis. She decides she no longer wants to be her old self when her son Brendan goes to college as a freshman. She experiences sexual reawakening and sexual fulfillment that eluded her in her younger years. Brendan also undergoes his own sexual troubles as he navigates college life.