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April 09, 2025

This issue of The BookBrowse Review contains reviews and "beyond the book" articles for 14 titles, including Counting Backwards by Binnie Kirshenbaum, Audition by Katie Kitamura, and Tilt by Emma Pattee. We also bring you First Impressions picks, previews of upcoming books, and much more.

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A COVID-19 Nonfiction Reading List

Between autumn 2020 and spring 2021, lots of COVID-themed books started to appear on bookstore and library shelves in the UK, where I live. It felt like nonfiction was quicker to respond to the pandemic than fiction. Some of my favorites were too niche for US publication because they focus on the UK’s National Health Service (Intensive Care by Gavin Francis, a Scottish GP) or England’s lockdown spring (The Consolation of Nature by Michael McCarthy, Jeremy Mynott, and Peter Marren). It soon became a low-key obsession of mine to read whatever I could about COVID.

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