I am enjoying Sea of Tranquility right now, and realized im kind of hungry for more exploration of pandemics in my stories. Im more interested in the human experience or societal implications, less the horror and destruction. I also do really enjoy post-apocalyptic books too.
I have already read and enjoyed these, which all have some sort of post or pending apocalypse thing going on
The Road
Station Eleven
Wild Dark Shore (didn't like her other books as much tho)
I who have never known men
I am hoping for suggestions that involve a pandemic in the storyline, without being too much of an airport gift shop thriller.
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If we survive this
The Stand by Stephen King
Oryx and Crake/Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Blindness by Jose Saramago
The Plague by Albert Camus
Edit. They are epidemic fiction though
Blood Music by Greg Bear.
The Hot Zone
The great believers by Rebecca Makkai. Historical fiction about the AIDS pandemic
I Cheerfully Refuse – Leif Enger
Andromeda Strain is a good classic
You need to read The Passage!
Pull of the stars by Emma Donaghue. Takes place In Ireland during the Spanish flu, 1918. (So many parallels to covid! )The story tells of 3 days in the life of a maternity ward nurse and feels like a genuine perspective and characters.