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COVID-19: The Novel Coronavirus Novel Reading Challenge
The Coronavirus is here to stay and we're all doing our best to cope. For many of us that means working remotely and staying at home a lot more - often with nothing much to do. If there is any silver lining to be had it could be that we all have a bit more free time on our hands to read! And strangely enough, many folks find some kind of relief or distraction in reading books about pandemics. So for this challange let's dig right in to some fictional pandemics to help take our minds off the real one raging outside.
Here's a baker's dozen of titles to get you started:
- The Last Man by Mary Shelley (1826)
- Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1949)
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton (1969)
- The Stand by Stephen King (1978)
- Journals of the Plague Years by Norman Spinrad (1988)
- The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman (1989)
- Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (1992)
- The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (2002)
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (2003)
- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (2012)
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)
- The Book of M by Peng Shepherd (2018)
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power (2019)
I'm sure you can think of more titles that would fit this challenge. Please share those in the challenge thread in the forums. And yes, zombie stories are fine too.
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