This is not the time for Station Eleven or The
Road. Nor should you pick up The Stand or, heaven forbid, One
Second After. However, if you must go there, go here.
For me, turning off the news and escaping into fiction
has done wonders for my mental health – and probably irreversible damage to my
back.
Before turning to this week’s list of recommendations
of escape fiction, I’d like to give a shout out to Libby. Since my Kindle seems
to be on the fritz, I’ve relied on her more and more to access free books
from the library.
Some are light-hearted, a few are well-written, but in
all of them you’ll notice the absence of social distancing and the novelty of
well, going places. Best of all, they offer a short reprieve from real life.
Maybe in a Another Life
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Waiting for Tom Hanks
by Kerry Winfrey
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
The Confession Club
by Elizabeth Berg
The Gifted School by
Bruce Holsinger
Some Luck
by Jane Smiley
The Dutch House
by Anne Patchett
The Third Wife
by Lisa Jewell
