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These are Margaret Atwood's reads for while on lockdown

Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood's recommended reads for a pandemic. Image: ActuaLitté

Kaya Bülbül
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    Cover art for Agatha Christie's books Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot
    Margaret Atwood recommends Agatha Christie detective novels for anyone looking for a comforting read.
    Cover art for Edna O'Brien’s trilogy The Country Girls, Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
    Margaret Atwood's recommended romantic reads for a pandemic
    Cover art for Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant, and The Snooty Bookshop by Tom Gauld
    Margaret Atwood's recommended comic books if you need a laugh.
    Cover art for the books 1491 by Charles Mann, Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, and Rats, Lice, and History by Hans Zinnser.
    Margaret Atwood recommends three historical non-fiction books for anyone seeking more information about plagues.
    Cover art for Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood has written about pandemics, too.
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