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Coronavirus Quarantine Reading List: 15 Best Apocalyptic Books to Read Now
From Camus to Saramago, from Chaucer to Atwood, writers for centuries have painted horrifying scenes of death and destruction wrought by plagues. Your (post) apocalyptic reading list for a coronavirus quarantine
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A coronavirus quarantine reading list: From left to right, the covers of 'Aniara,' 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' 'The White Plague,' 'The Plague' and 'The Last Man.'
A coronavirus quarantine reading list: From left to right, the covers of 'Aniara,' 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' 'The White Plague,' 'The Plague' and 'The Last Man.'
Ariana Melamed
Ariana Melamed
Published on 27.03.2020
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So what will be in the end? In the space between paralyzing fear and boundless imagination, many wonderful books predict the demise of mankind as we know it, the loneliness of the last person in the universe, or the lessons that will be learned by the survivors as they try to set up a better world for the few who remain. In the midst of ruins and corpses, as humans seek an explanation for a great, random and fateful mystery, it seems that every culture is in need of an apocalyptic story centered around a pandemic, especially now, with the eruption of the coronavirus.