Covid in the USA

Personal narratives, descriptions, and arguments about Covid in the USA. Click on image for detailed record.

The Great Isolation: Colorado Creativity in the Time of the Pandemic
edited by Aaron A. Abeyta and others
July 2020, independently published

Presidential Takedown: How Anthony Fauci, the CDC, NIH, and the WHO Conspired to Overthrow President Trump
by Paul Elias Alexander and Kent Heckenlively
November 2022, Skyhorse Publishing

The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke
by Maximillian Alvarez
August 2022, OR Books

A Plague upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop Covid from Destroying America
by Scott W. Atlas
December 2021, Bombardier Books

East Money, Hard Time: 19-Covid PPP Loan Fraud Stories
by Bob Coleman
April 2025, independently published

Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020
by Fred D’Aguiar
August 2021, Harper

An Epidemic among My People: Religion, Politics, and Covid-19 in the United States
edited by Paul Djupe and Amanda Friesen
January 2023, Temple University Press

Plague Doctors: How Hawai’i Battled the Pandemic
by Jonathan Dworkin
December 2021, Watermark Publishing

Lavender in Your Lemonade: A Funny and Touching Covid Diary
by Chris Erskine
September 2020, The Sager Group

Memoir of a Pandemic: Fighting Covid from the Front Lines to the White House
by Brett Giroir
May 2023, Texas A&M University Press

Covid Conversations: Voices from Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts
edited by Susan Grabski, et al.
January 2023, Loom Press

Life Became Very Blurry: An Oral History of Covid-19 in Vermont
edited by Garrett M. Graff
March 2025, Vermont Historical Society

Covid Wars: America’s Struggle Over Public Health and Personal Freedom
by Ronald Gruner
March 2025, Libratum

Hope is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic
edited by B. J. Hollars
September 2021, Wisconsin Historical Society Press

The Pandemic and the Working Class: How U.S. Labor Navigated Covid-19
edited by Nick Juravich and Steve Striffler
April 2025, University of Illinois Press

Life on the Grocery Line: A Frontline Experience in a Global Pandemic
by Adam Jonathan Kaat
second edition, March 2023, Inspired Forever Books

A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and Covid: An Attack on Science and American Ideals
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
August 2022, Skyhorse Publishing

The Intimate City: Walking New York
by Michael Kimmelman
November 2022, Penguin

2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
by Eric Klinenberg
February 2024, Knopf

In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us
by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee
March 2025, Princeton University Press

Airborne: How the Liberal Media Weaponized the Coronavirus against Donald Trump
by Matt Margolis
July 2020, Bombardier Books

The Chief’s Chief
by Mark Meadows
December 2021, All Seasons Press

Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji
by Emily Mendenhall
March 2022, Vanderbilt University Press

Shattered Grief: How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America
by Natasha L. Mikles
July 2024, Columbia University Press

Pandemonium Logs: Sioux Falls, South Dakota 2020-2022
by Ben Miller
October 2024, Rutgers University Press

Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
by Jeremiah Moss
October 2022, W. W. Norton and Co.

In Other Words, Leadership: How a Young Mother’s Weekly Letter to Her Governor Helped Both Women Brave the First Pandemic Years
by Shannon A. Mullen
June 2023, Steerforth

In Trump Time: A Journal of America’s Plague Year
by Peter Navarro
November 2021, All Seasons Press

What Went Wrong: America’s Covid Response and Lessons for the Future
by Gregory E. Pence
April 2025, Rowman and Littlefield

Rebel: The Story of a Democratic State Senator Who Fought Against the Covid-19 Lockdowns
by Chap Peterson
March 2024, independently published

New York: Stilled Life
photographs by Gregory J. Peterson
February 2022, Goff Books

Saving Main Street: Small Business in the Time of Covid-19
by Gary Rivlin
released October 2022, by Harper Business

The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America
by Carol Roth
June 2021, Broadside Books

Coming of Age in 2020: Teenagers on the Year That Changed Everything
edited by Katherine Schulten
October 2022, W. W. Norton and Co.

Levi’s Unbuttoned: The Woke Mob Took My Job but Gave Me My Voice
by Jennifer Sey
November 2022, All Seasons Press

The Wedding March: A True Story
by Rob Smat
March 2024, Gaudium Publishing

Ohio Under Covid: Lessons from America’s Heartland in Crisis
edited by Katherine Sorrels, et al.
April 2023, University of Michigan Press

When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason
by John Tamny
March 2021, Post Hill Press

Theroux the Keyhole: Diaries of a Grounded Documentary Maker
by Louis Theroux
November 2021, Pan McMillan

Apocalyptic Polly: A Pandemic Memoir
by Polly Basore Wenzl
November 2021, independently published

The Mayor and The Judge: The Inside Story of the War Against Covid
by Nelson W. Wolff
May 2022, Elm Grove Publishing

An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions
by David Zweig
April 2025, MIT Press
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