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A list of novels and short stories to read while quarantined and social distancing. Books in this list are all related to pandemics, isolation, or social distancing.
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Don't Close Your Eyes
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Lynessa James (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 609 ratings
score: 496,
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Complicated Moonlight (DCYE, #2)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 311 ratings
score: 493,
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5 people voted
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Mad Love (DCYE, #3)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 215 ratings
score: 398,
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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3.92 avg rating — 279,694 ratings
score: 382,
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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4.07 avg rating — 344,813 ratings
score: 299,
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3 people voted
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Beauty Beyond Death
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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The Masque of the Red Death
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4.06 avg rating — 45,313 ratings
score: 197,
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Year of Wonders
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 173,104 ratings
score: 193,
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2 people voted
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The Strain (The Strain #1)
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3.80 avg rating — 89,740 ratings
score: 189,
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 234,270 ratings
score: 189,
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 36,722 ratings
score: 189,
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Room
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 828,693 ratings
score: 187,
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,144,522 ratings
score: 185,
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A Rose for Emily
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3.82 avg rating — 13,389 ratings
score: 182,
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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4.21 avg rating — 10,707 ratings
score: 178,
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,191 ratings
score: 178,
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,633 ratings
score: 178,
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Last Light (Restoration, #1)
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Terri Blackstock (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 13,491 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Alchemist's Cat (The Deptford Histories, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 962 ratings
score: 100,
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The Dawn of Evil (The Wages of Sin, #5)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 49 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Desert Rose
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K. Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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This Time of Dying
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3.34 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Poetry in a time of Pestilence: Perspectives on a Pandemic
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Alex Morritt (Goodreads Author)
4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Unadjusteds (The Unadjusteds, #1)
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Marisa Noelle (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 264 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Death of the Cosset
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Kimberly Jane Oswald (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Deadly Illusion (Secrets and the City Book 1)
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Kathy Lockheart (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 15,857 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Misery
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 825,785 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Night Light (Restoration, #2)
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Terri Blackstock (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 13,238 ratings
score: 99,
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The Birth of Death (The Wages of Sin, #4)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Dark Dead Stars
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Cassie Sharp (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 51 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Painted Veil
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3.97 avg rating — 50,869 ratings
score: 99,
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The Rise of the Altereds (The Unadjusteds, #2)
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Marisa Noelle (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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True Light (Restoration, #3)
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Terri Blackstock (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 7,425 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Fall of Innocence (The Wages of Sin, #3)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Dark Hollow Lake Collection One
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4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Fever
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Mary Beth Keane (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 16,166 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Secrets of the Deep (Mermaid Chronicles, #1)
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Marisa Noelle (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 527 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 560,270 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Dawn's Light (Restoration, #4)
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Terri Blackstock (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 7,081 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Wrath of Truth (The Wages of Sin, #2)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 191,765 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Vixen
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3.50 avg rating — 517 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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The Shadow Keepers
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Marisa Noelle (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 227 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Dangerous Games (DCYE, #4)
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Lynessa Layne (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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I Am Legend
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4.05 avg rating — 149,391 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Devil's Advocate (The Wages of Sin, #1)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 80 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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Emma
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4.05 avg rating — 960,761 ratings
score: 96,
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The Romanov Cross
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Robert Masello (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,766 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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The Stand
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 821,365 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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The Plague
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4.02 avg rating — 305,423 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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New York
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Edward Rutherfurd (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 43,554 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address
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3.58 avg rating — 4,851 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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3.89 avg rating — 1,795,236 ratings
score: 88,
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