Books To Read During Quarantine

Authors are recommending books you should be reading to keep yourself entertained while quarantining.

Books to read during quarantine. Don t want to read books while quarantined. We asked the literary experts at goodreads about the most trending escapist books right now. That is books that ll take your mind off things and don t have plot points about pandemics or quarantine.

Sure the metropol is grand and historic but for alexander it s a prison sentence. Gather your household and challenge yourselves to tell a story every day. From bestsellers with staying power where the crawdads sing little fires everywhere and the silent patient were the top three books read by goodreads members in march to memoirs that provide the.

Glennon doyle author of untamed recommends native. Amor towles bestseller is perhaps the ultimate quarantine read. Being in quarantine can be a downer so goodreads culled through their members wants and reads to recommend 25 books that will pick you up.

Identity belonging and rediscovering god by kaitlin b. There s a science to what makes a book trendy too. Goodreads tallies up how many members mark a book to read.

Some authors are recommending dystopian books like ling ma s severance others say this is the perfect time to read hefty works of literature you ve been putting off like leo tolstoy s war and peace and crime and punishment by fyodor dostoyevsky. For those fortunate enough to be able to work and quarantine at home during the coronavirus pandemic there has been an opportunity to read watch and listen to all of the work and art you. Here s what they had to say.

Jenny davidson professor of english and comparative literature at columbia university suggests some of the best books to read if you re self isolating or in quarantine. Best books in quarantine. The hundred tales they tell each other during their two week quarantine span the gamut from witty to tragic.