Novels and stories, poems and personal essays. Most challenge or lampoon the Official Narrative of Covid, but I have included works by true Covidians when they capture the confused spirit of our age. Click on image for detailed record.
The Vapor, the Hot Hat, and the Witches’ Potion: A Fairy Story
by Margaret Anna Alice
September 2021, independently published
The Corona Monologues: Auditioning Monologues Based on the Covid-19 Pandemic
by Darrell Bartell
February 2022, Progressive Rising Phoenix Press
Killing Time
by Alan Bennett
November 2024, Faber and Faber
Uncomfortability
by Roxanna Bennett
September 2023, Gordon Hill Press
Year of the Murder Hornet
by Tina Cane
May 2022, Veliz Books
I Love You All, Please Leave: Essays on Covid Lockdowns and Psych Lockups
by Victoria Carlisle
September 2023, independently published
A Needle For a Needle: A Mother’s Covid Revenge
by Vernon Coleman
September 2023, independently published
Life Sucks: Memories and Introspections During the Great Covid Lockdown
by P. S. Conway
March 2025, Fictional Cafe Press
Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies from the Plague Year
by Chad Davidson
January 2024, LSU Press
A Sad Collection of Short Stories, Cheap Parables, Amusing Anecdotes, Covid-Inspired Bad Poetry
by Sean Dempsey
May 2024, independently published
Kissing the Coronavirus
by M. J. Edwards
October 2020, independently published
Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco
by Karen Finley
March 2025, City Lights
The Unvaccinated
by Jean Grandbois
December 2022, independently published
Covid / Corvid
by Alyson Hallett and Penelope Shuttle
September 2021, Broken Sleep Books
The Colour Yellow and The Number 19: Negative Thoughts That Helped One Man Mostly Retain His Sanity During 2020
by Kevin Higgins
November 2020, independently published
Zone 23
by C. J. Hopkins
July 2025, Arcade
Pandemonium: Some Verses on the Current Predicament
by Armando Iannucci
November 2021, Little, Brown
A Book About Myself Called Hell
by Jaren Joseph
February 2022, Kernpunkt Press
Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis
by Laura Kipnis
February 2022, Pantheon Books
Stay Safe: A Novel
by Michael Lacoy
September 2023, Monteverdi Press
After the Before Times
by Jan Leland
June 2023, Austin Macauley
Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story
by John C. A. Manley
April 2022, Blazing Pine Cone
Yankee Doodle Soup for the Fringy, Tin Foil Hat-Wearing Conspiracy Theorist’s Soul
edited by Jenna McCarthy
June 2024, Bella Luna Press
A Friendship in Twilight: Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life
by Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor
July 2022, Columbia University Press
Are You There God? It’s Me Covid-19
by Travis Ruso Milton
November 2021, Liferich
The Corona Verses
by Tim O’Leary
April 2024, Rare Bird Books
Abiden
by Aviel Oppenheim
September 2024, LibertyWorks
Careful-ish: A Ridiculous Romp Through Covid-Living As Seen Through The Eyes Of Ridiculous People
by Honey Parker
October 2020, Slow Burn Marketing
Edge of Safety: A Future Tale of Arbitrary Lockdowns and the Deeply Caring Citizens Who Love Them
by Neal Pollack
June 2022, Bombardier Books
Banksia Close
by C. L. Rowe
December 2023, Liberty Moth
Letters Apart
by Ed Schad and Liat Yossifor
September 2023, DoppelHouse Press
Paranoic in the Age of Stupid
by Alan Forrest Smith
January 2022, independently published
I Yelled at a Cucumber: Pandemic Tales from the Edge of Sanity
by Carianne Smith
May 2025, independently published
Haptic, Covid, Philosophy
by Alan Sondheim
September 2024, Broken Sleep Books
The Time We Have: Essays on Pandemic Living
by Michele Weldon
July 2024, Northwestern University Press
Ali’s Well That Ends Well: Tales of Desperation and a Little Inspiration
by Ali Wentworth
May 2022, Harper
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