Reading Through the Pandemic: Fiction and non-fiction that look at many aspects of the past nearly two years.

Lockdown by Peter May. Written in 2005, it's the crime thriller that predicted a world in quarantine.

The End of October by best-selling author Lawrence Wright is a fictionalized account of a deadly pandemic, with the main character very similar to Dr. Fauci.

The Plague Year, a non-fiction account of "America in the time of Covid" by Pulitzer prize-winning Lawrence Wright.

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America, A Recent History by Kurt Andersen is a non-fiction political, cultural, and economic work that names names and assigns blame... both Right and Left.

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story is Michael Lewis' taut and brilliant non-fiction thriller that pits a band of medical visionaries against a wall of ignorance.

The Living Dead by George Romero and Daniel Kraus.  A work of speculative fiction, much like Stephen King's The Stand (just without the nuclear weapons) that provides lots to think about.

Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America, proves that conspiracy theories are not harmless sideshows, but are instead the dark and secret heart of American political history.

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson puts 2020 in historical perspective and seeks to explain why we're getting worse, not better, at handling disasters.