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Post Pandemic Reading List!!!
I'm going to use this space to keep a list of not-yet-published books that I know will someday exist and will want to read, because I can't figure where else on GR to make a list like this. Suggestions encouraged!
- In-depth investigation about early testing failures/lack
- Fauci memoir
- Field-level memoir by someone who works for the CDC, exposing institutional fails (cont below)
— Nov 04, 2020 12:44PM
I'm going to use this space to keep a list of not-yet-published books that I know will someday exist and will want to read, because I can't figure where else on GR to make a list like this. Suggestions encouraged!
- In-depth investigation about early testing failures/lack
- Fauci memoir
- Field-level memoir by someone who works for the CDC, exposing institutional fails (cont below)
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- In-depth investigative accounting of WTF happened at the postal service, hopefully including historical background, esp the thing about the mail trucks exploding all the time- Summary of all the weird, brief cultural obsessions (this will probably be a web page, not a book)
- The pandemic through the lens of gender (ideally more than just disparities in how the pandemic affected people, but also how gender expression changed during this time), hopefully written from an incisive feminist viewpoint- Success story biography of someone who managed to turn this situation into a personal win, ideally an artist
- A decade or few down the line, a retrospective of art during the period, and its place in art history
- The most popular rom com set during quarantine
- Things about the racial justice happenings, but that's sort of own list, also stuff about the intense class disparities
- One of the many comparisons with past pandemics/disasters, written by either the nerdiest or funniest author
- Something attempting to learn lessons and warn for the future (I'm hoping for something ala Laurie Garrett, but less pop-y more science-y)
- If Armand Marie Leroi wrote something even tangentially touching the pandemic, I'd be over the moon
- An underdog 2020 heist-type thriller-comedy. This might be a movie, but maybe it'll be a book first.
- An ultra-punishing read about racial disparities during COVID, and I'll probably watch the 6-hour Spike Lee documentary, too
- Trauma-focused memoir about a health care workers journey through PTSD and efforts to help others, coming out a couple years after most of these (it will be my favorite and I will recommend it to you at least twice)
- Several YA, middle grade, and picture books about the pandemic for kids, esp anything that tries to draw lessons for the future
Will keep adding as things come to me!