NP: Plague Reading

[Becky Lindroos]

Much more recent but Station Eleven by Emily St. John (2015) is very good! 

“a mysterious Georgian Flu is spreading rapidly and will soon become a full-blown pandemic.”  

The novel won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in May 2015, beating novels including The Girl with All the Gifts and Memory of Water.[16] The committee highlighted the novel's focus on the survival of human culture after an apocalypse, as opposed to the survival of humanity itself.[16] The novel was also a finalist for the National Book Award, ultimately losing to Phil Klay's short story cycle Redeployment.[17] It was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, as well as the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.[18]

The novel won the Toronto Book Award in October 2015.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Eleven

Becky 

> On Mar 10, 2020, at 10:38 AM, RZ <robert.zutphen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> And George R Stewart’s “Earth Abides.” 
> 
>> On Mar 10, 2020, at 10:55 AM, Heikki R <situations.journeys.comedy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> And Defoe's haunting & unsentimental "Journal".
>> 
>> ti 10. maalisk. 2020 klo 17.40 Gary Webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> kirjoitti:
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>>> Though not explicitly plague lit but The Name of the Rose...especially as
>>> Italy succumbs to CoVid-19...
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 10, 2020, at 11:23 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
>>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Albert Camus comes to mind...
>>>> 
>>>>> Am 10.03.2020 um 16:17 schrieb Smoke Teff:
>>>>> Using the coronavirus as an excuse to finish The Decameron after
>>> starting it years ago.
>>>>> Any other good pandemic lit? All genres and pub dates welcome.
>>> 
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