10 best books to read during Covid-19
A great book could provide inspiration, warmth, or a welcome escape no matter what is going on in the world. The bright spot of being trapped at home during the coronavirus disease outbreak is the opportunity to curl up with a good book, especially one that encourages you to consider the world in new ways.
Everyone has various ways to cope up with events of the outbreak, these books will allow you to divert your mind from what's going on outside as you want. So here are the 15 books which you can read by staying at home.
The Passage Trilogy, Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin's trilogy, a series of books that explores themes of mortality, hope, faith, and the future. Scientists developed a drug with some terrible side effects in the hopes of extending human existence, infecting the majority of the world's population and converting them into vampires. The Passage begins with a group of survivors banding together, as most post-apocalyptic literature does, but the story takes a turn when the characters learn they need to work with a six-year-old child. Cronin sets up an epic saga of cruelty, bravery, and heart by tracing the child's bond to those who are contaminated.
Buy: The Passage
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
Emily St. John Mandel's novel Station Eleven is set in New York City. This series is based in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictitious swine flu outbreak is known as the "Georgia Flu" has wreaked havoc on the planet and killed the majority of the population. The novel was well-received by critics, who praised Mandel's writing for its understated style. It appeared on several end-of-year lists as one of the best novels of 2014.
Buy: Station Eleven
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Road is a novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy which was published in 2006. As they drive through deserted land, an unknown father and son struggle to stay alive. The Road's futuristic premise quickly gives way to a tale that raises difficult ethical questions, parenting, and the lengths to which humans will go to survive.
WAVE, Sonali Deraniyagala
Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami is a memory by the Sri Lankan educator Sonali Deraniyagala. The book based on the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. It tells a story of Deraniyagala's life before the tsunami hit the coast, as well as how the tsunami swept across their beach resort, killing her husband, parents, and two young sons. Deraniyagala describes how things changed before her eyes and lost her family. She tries to assemble a liveable present whilst recalling her old life, and she teaches us all how to move forward in the aftermath of a disaster. This book has received several awards and positive reviews from critics.
A Gentleman In Moscow, Amor Towles
The Gentleman In Moscow, a novel written by Amor Towles in 2016. Towles was inspired to write the novel after staying in luxury hotels, especially one in Geneva, Switzerland, where some of the guests were permanent residents. He mixed his experience of Russia's long-standing historical practice of house arrest with the concept of luxury hotels. The moving portrait of one man's dependence on memory and imagination to preserve his resilience in isolation has sold over 1.5 million copies.
1Q84, Haruki Murakami
1Q84 is a Japanese novel written by Haruki Murakami and released in three volumes in Japan. The plot follows Aomame, a woman who begins to experience odd difference in the society. She becomes engrossed in a plot involving Sakigake, a religious cult, and Tengo, her childhood love, and sets out on a quest to discover what is "true."
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace is a novel written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Leo Tolstoy depicts his characters changing into entirely different individuals as a result of war and the political and social turmoil that follows. These chapters feature over 500 characters, but the sheer number of encounters helps to capture humanity in a way that novels told from the perspective of a single character cannot.
The IQ Series, Joe Ide
Though hotshot detective novels have been popular since the days of Sherlock Holmes, Joe Ide brings a fresh and completely new take to the genre. Isaiah "IQ" Quintabe, a high school dropout from Long Beach, California, uses deduction and creativity to keep one step ahead of the city's cutthroat underworld. In four novels, IQ, Righteous, Wrecked, and Hi-Five, Ide's fast-paced, lively dialogue leaps off the page, bringing to life rappers, gun traffickers, loan sharks, and gangsters.
Buy: The IQ Series
I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron's mother once told her, "All copy," an adage that Ephron embraced in her prized series of humorous and funny essays about the trials and tribulations of becoming a modern woman as she gets older. Ephron's lovely essays will appeal to readers of all ages, from lamenting her neck wrinkles and the turtlenecks she wears to cover them (which encourages her to implore younger readers to "go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34!") to rapturously extolling the pleasure of losing yourself in a novel.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Marlon James
Marlon James' fourth novel is a jaw-dropping epic tale of courage, brutality, and deception from the Booker Prize winner. The saga follows Tracker, a mercenary tasked with finding a missing child, and has been dubbed an "African Game of Thrones." The first installment of a promised trilogy, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, sees its protagonists traversing ancient lands and engaging with shapeshifters, dangerous beasts, and other enigmatic creatures. James' dense prose is rich, creative, demanding, and engrossing to read.
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