Further Reading
Letter Books
Air Mail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place. Pam Houston and Amy Irvine. Torrey House Press, October 2020.
A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life. Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor. Columbia University Press, 2022.
Rehearsals for Living. Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. [Foreword: Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Afterwor(ld): Robin D.G. Kelley]. Haymarket Books, 2022.
Services. Miranda July. Mack Books [Limited Edition], 2022.
The End Doesn’t Happen All At Once. Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan. Aleph Books Company, 2025.
Single-Authored Memoir and Essays
Wuhan Diary. Fang Fang. HarperVia, 2020.
Intimations: Six Essays. Zadie Smith. Penguin, 2020.
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division. Elif Shafak. Profile Books, 2020.
Notes on Grief. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Fourth Estate, 2021.
Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020. Fred D’Aguiar. Harper, 2021.
This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir. Cecily Strong. Simon & Schuster, 2021.
The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture During Lockdown. Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee. Headpress, 2021.
Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York. Jeremiah Moss. W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey. Adam Bessie. Seven Stories Press, 2023.
The Light Room: On Art and Care. Kate Zambreno. Riverhead Books, 2023.
Oral Histories and Anthologies
A World Out of Reach: Dispatches from Life under Lockdown. Meghan O’Rourke. Yale University Press, 2020.
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis. Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar, eds. Pluto Press, 2020.
Letters from Lockdown: Sustaining Public Service Values During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Claire Foster-Gilbert, Treena Fleming, Dawn Butler, and Peter Howitt. Haus Publishing, 2021.
Letters from Lockdown: A Selection of Covid Chronicles from BBC Radio 4’s PM Programme. Foreword by Evan Davis. Chatto & Windus, 2020.
Letters From Lockdown: Famous Faces, Frontline Workers and Stay-at-Home Heroes Reflect on the Year Everything Changed. Introduced by Natasha Kaplinsky. Wren and Rook, 2021.
Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found During the Covid-19 Pandemic. University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed. Eric Klinenberg. Knopf. 2024.
Medical Expertise, Experience or Policy
A Crown of Thorns: The Coronavirus and US. Kalpish Ratna. Westland, 2020.
Breathtaking: The UK’s Human Story of Covid. Rachel Clarke. Little, Brown, 2021.
Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response. Andy Slavitt. St. Martin’s Press, 2021.
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. Steven W. Thrasher. Celadon Books, 2022.
The Long Covid Survival Guide. Fiona Lowenstein, ed. The Experiment, 2022.
We Want Them Infected. Jonathan Howard. Redhawk Publications, 2023.
Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines: A Doctor’s Memoir of Fatherhood, Race, and Perseverance in the Pandemic. McFarland, 2023.
The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon’s Story of Bravery, Survival, and Hope. Cornelia Grigg. Gallery Books, 2024.
Political, Historical, and Economic Analysis
The Origins of COVID-19: China and Global Capitalism. Li Zhang, Stanford University Press, 2021.
Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus. Danielle Allen. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America. GwendolyL. Wright, Lucas Hubbard, and William A. Darity, Jr., Editors. Duke University Press, 2022.
Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus. Didier Fassin and Marion Fourcade. HAU, 2022.
Covid-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities. J. Michael Ryan and Serena Nanda. Routledge, 2022.
Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID. Shana Kushner Gadarian, Sara Wallace Goodman, and Thomas B. Pepinsky. Princeton University Press, 2022.
After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America. Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams. Haymarket, 2022.
Pandemic India: From Cholera to Covid-19. David Arnold. Oxford University Press, 2022.
The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now. Anya Kamenetz. Public Affairs, 2022.
Evaluating a Pandemic. Charles Pasternak, editor. World Scientific, 2023.
The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid. Lawrence Wright. Penguin Random House, 2023.
A History of the World in Six Plagues. Edna Bonhomme. Atria, 2024.
In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us. Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Philosophy
After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis. Bruno Latour. Polity, 2021.
What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology. Judith Butler. Columbia University Press, 2022.
The World Is Gone: Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic. Gregg Lambert. University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
The Plague: Living Death in Our Times. Jaqueline Rose. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2023.
Humanities/Art
Lockdown Cultures: The Arts and Humanities in the Year of the Pandemic, 2020–21. Stella Bruzzi and Maurice Biriotti, Editors. UCL Press, 2023.
The Otherness of the Everyday: Twelve Conversations from the Chinese Art World during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Jiang Jiehong, Editor. Intellect, 2021.
Lingering. Pato Hebert. Pitzer College, 2022.
The Second Wave: Reflections on the Pandemic through Photography, Performance and Public Culture. Rustom Bharucha. Seagull Books, 2023.
Poetry and Prayer
Micah Bucey, The Book of Tiny Prayer: Daily Meditations from the Plague Year. Fordham University Press, 2021.
Sarah Ruhl, Love Poems in Quarantine. Copper Canyon Press, 2022.
Reading in the Time Of
Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li. A Public Space Books, 2021.
Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis. Edgar Garcia. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in a Pandemic. Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague. Robert Zaretsky. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Fiction
The Sentence. Louis Erdrich. Harper, 2021.
Under the Blue. Oana Aristide. Serpent’s Tail, 2021.
Last One at the Party. Bethany Clift, 2021.
Lucy by the Sea: A Novel. Elizabeth Strout. Random House, 2022.
Our Country Friends: A Novel. Gary Shteyngart. Random House, 2022.
Nights of Plague: A Novel. Orhan Pamuk. Knopf, 2022.
The Fell. Sarah Moss. FSG, 2022.
Companion Piece. Ali Smith. Pantheon, 2022.
Tom Lake: A Novel. Ann Patchett. Harper, 2023.
Sea of Tranquility: A Novel. Emily St. John Mandel. Vintage, 2023.
The Vulnerables. Sigrid Nunez. Riverhead, 2023.
The Memory of Animals. Claire Fuller. Tin House, 2023.
Tremor. Teju Cole. Penguin Random House, 2023. [See also Golden Apple of the Sun. Mack Books, 2021]
Romantic Comedy. Curtis Sittenfeld. Random House, 2023.
Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel. HarperCollins, 2024.
The City and its Uncertain Walls. Haruki Murakami. Knopf, 2024.
Negative Space. Gillian Linden. Norton, 2024.
Blue Ruin. Hari Kunzru. Knopf, 2024.
The Limits. Nell Freudenberger. Knopf, 2024.
Everything We Never Had. Randy Ribay. 2024. (YA)
The Charterhouse of Padma. Padma Viswanathan. 2024
Films
Tomorrow is Saturday (2020, documentary)
7 Days (2021, rom-com)
The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021, drama)
We Met in Virtual Reality (2022, documentary)
This Body is So Impermanent (Peter Sellars, 2021)
Time Passages (Kyle Henry, 2024)