Be on the lookout for our in-depth columns on two upcoming theatrical films: The Friend, based on the Kirkus-starred and National Book Award–winning novel by Sigrid Nunez (in wide release on April 4), and On Swift Horses, based on the Kirkus-starred novel by Shannon Pufahl and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi (in theaters April 25). For now, here are four more book-to-screen adaptations on the way:

April 8: The Handmaid’s Tale (Season 6 premiere, Hulu)

From its second season onward, this series adaptation added many new characters and plotlines that never appeared in Margaret Atwood’s 1985 classic of speculative dystopian fiction. However, its depiction of a totalitarian and fundamentalist American society, which brutally oppresses and subjugates women, remains powerful and disturbing. Elisabeth Moss, who directed several episodes this season, returns as the character known in the novel only as Offred—a name signifying her enslavement to “the Commander,” implied to be named Fred. The show greatly expanded on Offred’s past and future and revealed her real name to be June Osborne. It’s likely that this final season will wrap up June’s story, as Moss isn’t slated to appear in an upcoming Hulu sequel series—based on Atwood’s 2019 novel, The Testaments, which is set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale.

April 11: The Amateur (theatrical film premiere)

Robert Littell’s spy novel, about a CIA cryptography analyst who seeks vengeance on the terrorists who murdered his fiancé, was made into a not-very-successful movie the year it was published. That film was co-written by the author and starred The Deer Hunter’s John Savage; this second go-round features Oscar winner Rami Malek as the main character in a story that ultimately combines an espionage thriller with a straightforward revenge tale. (As our reviewer astutely put it back in 1981, it’s “a little John Buchan [author of The Thirty-Nine Steps], a lot of Brian Garfield [author of Death Wish and Death Sentence].”) Malek, who memorably starred on the USA Network show Mr. Robot, knows his way around the thriller genre, and his supporting cast includes some stellar talents, including Emmy winners Laurence Fishburne, Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Julianne Nicholson (Mare of Easttown), and Jon Bernthal (The Bear), as well as Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe.

April 24: You (Season 5 premiere, Netflix)

The first two seasons of this streaming-series adaptation of Caroline Kepnes’ thriller series, narrated by serial killer Joe Goldberg, specifically drew on You (2014) and Hidden Bodies (2015). Later seasons, however, have largely pursued their own storylines, and this final one is no exception. It sees Joe returning to New York City, where he becomes well known as the husband of a wealthy CEO. Over the course of this twisty series, Gossip Girl’s Penn Badgely, as Joe, has been consistently amusing and deeply creepy, by turns, and this season adds the considerable talents of The Good Wife’s Anna Camp in a dual role as Joe’s tough, ambitious sister-in-law and her identical twin sibling.

April 25: Four Letters of Love (theatrical film premiere)

In Niall Williams’ 1997 novel, a 12-year-old Irish boy named Nicholas Coughlan finds his life thrown into confusion when his father, William, decides to quit a civil-service job and become a painter. This sends the family into dire financial straits, and, two years later, the boy’s mother dies by suicide. That’s only the beginning of the hardships Nicholas faces in a story that extends over several years. Eventually, Nicholas meets a poet and schoolteacher, Muiris Gore, whose family is dealing with its own difficulties, including the recent marriage of Muiris’ daughter, Isabel, to a man she does not love. “While a wealth of impressions linger from this debut,” wrote our reviewer, “two words come most often to mind in describing it: Spellbinding. Brilliant.” This promising film adaptation, written by the author and directed by Let Me Go’s Polly Steele, features some fine actors, including the great Pierce Brosnan as the difficult William and the always-reliable Gabriel Byrne as Muiris.

David Rapp is the senior Indie editor.