The 18 Best Escapist Reads For When You’re Social Distancing

Angela Lashbrook
7 min readMar 14, 2020

Sometimes, you need to lose yourself completely in a novel. These books will do the trick.

It’s a beautiful day in New York (and across much of the west coast, it’s raining — finally!), but many of us are stuck inside, social-distancing, cooking lasagna, and drowning ourselves in The Bachelor, if my Twitter feed is any indication. Once you get sick of those…

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Angela Lashbrook

I’m a columnist for OneZero, where I write about the intersection of health & tech. Also seen at Elemental, The Atlantic, VICE, and Vox. Brooklyn, NY.