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COVID in literature

Description: Because it's inevitable. Literary works (fiction, poetry, plays, etc.) responding to or featuring the COVID-19 pandemic. Relevant literary nonfiction (personal essays/diaries) is also OK, but not my main interest.

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by Louise Erdrich

2,949 members

131 reviews

4

4 Members: elkiedee, spiphany, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

2

341 members

32 reviews

4

4 Members: FAMeulstee, elkiedee, spiphany, kara.shamy

3

792 members

39 reviews

4

3 Members: dhm, spiphany, kara.shamy

4

Sea of Tranquility

by Emily St. John Mandel

4,963 members

235 reviews

4

2 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom

5

The Pull of the Stars

by Emma Donoghue

1,971 members

111 reviews

4.1

2 Members: elkiedee, gypsysmom
Explanations: elkiedee: It's actually about the flu pandemic which started at the end of WWI in 1918, and was written just before COVID but published in June 2020.

6

Intimations: Six Essays

842 members

29 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dhm, spiphany

7

Our Country Friends

by Gary Shteyngart

667 members

30 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: spiphany, ManWithAnAgenda

8

291 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: ManWithAnAgenda: Not COVID, but the pandemic of the book is certainly inspired by it.

9

234 members

17 reviews

4

2 Members: FAMeulstee, spiphany

10

The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic

by The New York Times Magazine

161 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dhm, spiphany

11

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City

117 members

1 review

½ 3.6

2 Members: dhm, spiphany

12

Together, Apart

96 members

6 reviews

3.8

2 Members: spiphany, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The Great Realization

by Tomos Roberts

81 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dhm, spiphany

14

Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic

40 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dhm, spiphany

15

Quarantaine dagboek in tijden van besmetting

by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

36 members

2 reviews

3.8

2 Members: FAMeulstee, EMS_24

16

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Ilan Stavans

16 members

2

2 Members: dhm, spiphany

17

A World Out of Reach: Dispatches from Life under Lockdown

by Meghan O'Rourke

11 members

2 Members: dhm, spiphany

18

The Madness of Crowds

by Louise Penny

2,018 members

96 reviews

4

Member: gypsysmom

19

How High We Go in the Dark

by Sequoia Nagamatsu

1,796 members

75 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: ManWithAnAgenda: Not COVID, but the pandemic of the book is certainly inspired by it.

20

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

679 members

30 reviews

4.2

Member: elkiedee

21

by Joseph Bruchac

344 members

16 reviews

4.1

Member: spiphany

22

by Erica Ferencik

343 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: ManWithAnAgenda: Not COVID, but definitely influenced by it

23

Outside, Inside

330 members

13 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: spiphany

24

The Startup Wife

by Tahmima Anam

326 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee

25

A Lovely Way to Burn

by Louise Welsh

217 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: elkiedee

26

How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises

by Paolo Giordano

103 members

7 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: EMS_24

27

Death is a Welcome Guest

by Louise Welsh

92 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: elkiedee
Explanations: elkiedee: Actually published a few years before, and the second in a near future trilogy about the country in a pandemic, but it seemed very prescient.

28

The Baby Is Mine

by Oyinkan Braithwaite

65 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: spiphany

29

54 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: FAMeulstee

30

How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic

48 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany

31

Granta 152: Still Life

by Sigrid Rausing

42 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany

32

Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future

by Gideon Lichfield

35 members

4

Member: spiphany

33

by Steffen Kopetzky

28 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: spiphany
Explanations: spiphany: About a smallpox outbreak in Germany in the 1960s; the author has said that the choice of topic was inspired by the current coronavirus pandemic

34

The Rebel and the Thief

by Jan-Philipp Sendker

23 members

4.2

Member: spiphany

35

Afscheid gedicht uit de tijd van het virus

by Cees Nooteboom

21 members

1 review

4.1

Member: spiphany

36

Als die Welt stehen blieb: Vom Leben im Ausnahmezustand – Maja Lundes bislang persönlichstes Buch

20 members

1 review

½ 3.4

Member: spiphany

37

Identität 1142: 23 Quarantäne-Kurzkrimis

by Sebastian Fitzek

19 members

4

Member: spiphany

38

Wuhan: Dokumentarroman

12 members

½ 4.5

Member: spiphany

39

9 members

1 review

5

Member: spiphany

40

Trost: Briefe an Max

7 members

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany

41

Journal: Tagebuch in Zeiten der Pandemie

by Carolin Emcke

6 members

½ 4.3

Member: spiphany

42

Der verlorene Sommer: Deutschland raucht auf dem Balkon

by Wladimir Kaminer

6 members

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany

43

Die Wütenden und die Schuldigen

by John von Düffel

5 members

Member: spiphany

44

by Martin Meyer

4 members

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany

45

Een week of vier

by Laura van der Haar

4 members

1 review

2

Member: EMS_24

46

In a Cabin, in the Woods (The German List)

by Michael Krüger

4 members

Member: spiphany

47

Die Krone der Schöpfung (German Edition)

2 members

1 review

2

Member: spiphany

48

by Volker Braun

1 member

Member: spiphany

49

Wish You Were Here

by Jodi Picoult

2,418 members

96 reviews

3.9

50

by Karin Slaughter

1,519 members

39 reviews

4

51

by Catherine Ryan Howard

1,200 members

37 reviews

3.8

52

by Daniel Silva

1,023 members

32 reviews

½ 3.5

53

by Peter Heller

526 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

54

Sunrise By the Sea

by Jenny Colgan

334 members

11 reviews

3.8

55

The Summer of Lost and Found

by Mary Alice Monroe

215 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

56

Keeping the City Going

142 members

8 reviews

4

57

Robert B. Parker's Payback

127 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

58

by Luke Adam Hawker

119 members

5 reviews

4.1

59

Life Without Children: Stories

113 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

60

While We Can't Hug

by Eoin McLaughlin

110 members

6 reviews

4.1

61

Hello (From Here)

by Chandler Baker

106 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

62

The Cuckoo's Cry

by Caroline Overington

101 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

63

If the Fates Allow - Story

by Rainbow Rowell

95 members

20 reviews

½ 3.5

64

Die Wut, die bleibt

by Mareike Fallwickl

67 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

65

by Rachel Clarke

65 members

3 reviews

4.2

66

COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology

by Kendra Boileau

59 members

3 reviews

3.8

67

by Louise Welsh

55 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

68

Volver a dónde

by Antonio Muñoz Molina

45 members

3 reviews

4.1

69

There is a Rainbow

by Theresa Trinder

41 members

2 reviews

3.9

70

Sharing a Smile

by Nicki Kramar

39 members

3 reviews

4

71

Love in Lockdown

37 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

72

A Diary of the Plague Year: An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020

by Elise Engler

36 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

73

29 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

74

by Sean Parnell

27 members

½ 3.6

75

by Marissa Meyer

25 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

76

When We Stayed Home

19 members

10 reviews

½ 3.7

77

Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown

by James Attlee

16 members

3.8

78

This Is How We Come Back Stronger: Feminist Writers on Turning Crisis into Change

by The Feminist Book Society

15 members

79

Vervirte Zeiten

13 members

½ 3.5

80

Dann bleiben wir eben zu Hause!

by Renate Bergmann

13 members

81

Der Tintenfischer

by Wolfgang Schorlau

12 members

1 review

5

82

The C Word (Love in the Age of Covid Book 1)

by Mindy Klasky

11 members

5 reviews

½ 4.3

83

De komst van een vreemde lente

by Franco Faggiani

8 members

3.8

84

When the World Went Quiet

6 members

1 review

3

85

Ein Stadtmensch im Wald

by H. D. Walden

5 members

½ 3.3

86

Der Weltreporter: Ein Roman in zwölf Reisen

by Hannes Stein

5 members

87

by Jonathan Gibbs

4 members

1 review

½ 4.5

88

Anche le pulci prendono la tosse.

by Roberto Costantini

4 members

1 review

2.8

89

by Maartje Swillen

4 members

90

So ist die Welt geworden.

by Marlene Streeruwitz

3 members

91

Bring Out Your Dead

by Elizabeth Moon

2 members

1 review

½ 2.5

92

by Christian Linker

2 members

93

Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic

by Jeffrey Levine

2 members

94

by Aleš Palán

1 member

3

95

TAGE WIE DIESE In Zeiten des Abstands: Die Corona Benefiz-Anthologie

by Alexander Broicher

1 member

96

Theater heute - Das Jahrbuch 2020: Die große Pause

by Der Theaterverlag - Friedrich Berlin

1 member

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April 2021
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