We owe you—our readers, our community in Montréal and beyond—a huge THANK YOU for your support of your neighborhood bookstore(s) in the year since the pandemic was declared. We’ve had our ups and downs and challenges but are so grateful for the many ways we’ve felt your support over the past year. 

Here are some Fiction titles for folks who find reading novels about pandemics is their jam, even one year in:

Severance by Ling Ma

“Severance is the best work of fiction I’ve read yet about (...) the alienation and cruelty that comes with being a functional person under advanced global capitalism (...) In this novel, doom is inevitable, and yet it comes so slowly you might not even notice it.” —Jia Tolentino

The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai

"A compelling read about ostracization, disease, technology, tolerance, and survival in a society facing extinction from a horrific pandemic." -The Advocate 

Songs for the End of the World by Saleema Nawaz

A coronavirus sweeps the world in 2020. Written in the five years preceding 2020. Montrealer Saleema Nawaz wrote this book in the five years leading up to our current pandemic. Once she submitted the manuscript, her imagined pandemic gave way to an actual one. This book is a must-read novel and we nominate it for most uncanny work of literature to read during the pandemic! 

Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Beautiful illustrated edition.

Zone One by Colson Whitehead

A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected.

The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay

As disturbing news arrives of a pandemic sweeping the country, Jean realizes this is no ordinary flu: its chief symptom is that its victims begin to understand the language of animals.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

A darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse.

A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen.

Six years after a virus wiped out most of the planet’s population, former pop star Moira is living under a new identity to escape her past.

 "...too relatable, and perhaps even disturbing (...) [but] the beauty of Chen’s novel is that it doesn’t dwell in the darkness." -BookTrib

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Although technically not a pandemic novel, this one is certainly relatable for many of us:  

The story of a year spent at home under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be.

 We ship Canada wide, offer bike deliveries in Montreal, prepaid pickups and socially distanced in store shopping. 

Thanks so much!