November is serving up the perfect excuse to trade your bookmark for a remote—or a bucket of movie-theater popcorn. This month’s book-to-screen lineup includes a long-awaited return to Panem, a new Percy Jackson adventure, a darker take on a Christmas classic and enough fantasy, romance and family drama to fill every chilly evening. Whether you are ready to revisit a favorite fictional world or discover your next read after watching, these are the adaptations you won’t want to miss this November.

Movies

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

It is finally time to return to Panem. Based on Suzanne Collins’s bestselling prequel, Sunrise on the Reaping follows a young Haymitch Abernathy as he is selected to compete in the Second Quarter Quell—a special edition of the Hunger Games featuring twice as many tributes. Joseph Zada leads an incredible cast that includes Ralph Fiennes, Elle Fanning, Jesse Plemons, Kieran Culkin, Mckenna Grace and Whitney Peak.

Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens’s holiday classic receives a darker reimagining with Johnny Depp stepping into the role of Ebenezer Scrooge. With Ian McKellen, Andrea Riseborough and Tramell Tillman rounding out the cast, this adaptation promises a shadowy, supernatural journey through Christmases past, present and future.

The Christmas Yes List

After years of putting everyone else first, ambitious New York professional Chloe returns to her West Virginia hometown and creates an unconventional Christmas challenge designed to help her finally embrace rejection—and start saying yes to herself. Adapted from Melissa Ferguson’s novel and starring Danica McKellar and Sam Page, this heartwarming holiday romance proves that taking a chance can lead to the most unexpected gifts.

One Year to Live, Buy a Man

When careful, savings-obsessed Yui learns she may have only one year left to live, her perfectly practical approach to life begins to unravel. Based on Toriko Yoshikawa’s Japanese novel, this grown-up Cinderella story blends romance, humor and the reminder that some experiences are worth more than anything sitting in a bank account.

The Cat in the Hat

The Cat is back—and naturally, chaos is coming with him. Dr. Seuss’s beloved troublemaker receives a colorful new animated adventure featuring the voices of Bill Hader, Quinta Brunson, Bowen Yang, Xochitl Gomez and Matt Berry.

TV Shows

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 3

Percy, Annabeth and Grover are heading into their most dangerous adventure yet. The third season adapts Rick Riordan’s The Titan’s Curse, sending the young demigods on a rescue mission involving a missing goddess, a powerful new enemy and a prophecy that suggests one hero may not survive the journey.

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The Remarried Empress

Based on Alphatart’s wildly popular web novel and Webtoon, this Korean fantasy romance follows Navier, the capable empress of the Eastern Empire, after her husband demands a divorce so he can marry his mistress. Rather than quietly accepting humiliation, Navier makes a stunning request of her own: permission to marry another emperor.

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3

Middle-earth is entering one of its darkest chapters as Sauron moves closer to forging the One Ring. Inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings, the third season jumps forward several years and follows the growing war between Sauron and the elves as alliances weaken and the future of Middle-Earth hangs in the balance.

Rivals Season 2, Part 2

The parties are wilder, the affairs are messier and the grudges are nowhere near settled. Based on Jilly Cooper’s novel, the second half of Rivals Season 2 returns to the glamorous and cutthroat world of 1980s British television, where professional competition and personal betrayal are becoming increasingly difficult to separate.

The Good Daughter

Rose Byrne and Meghann Fahy star as sisters whose lives were forever changed by a violent attack that killed their mother decades earlier. When another act of violence shakes their hometown, the women must revisit the secrets and trauma their family tried to leave behind in this six-episode adaptation of Karin Slaughter’s bestselling thriller.

Blade Runner 2099

The rain-soaked, neon-lit world of Blade Runner moves 50 years beyond the events of Blade Runner 2049 in this new limited series starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer. Inspired by the universe that began with Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the eight-episode series introduces a new mystery questioning what it means to be human in a world where the line between people and replicants is becoming harder to see.