Jenn Martin and Jennifer Wong discuss Jennifer’s litmus test for a novel likely to be a comforting read and Jenn shares her thoughts on reading a recent dystopian novel, Severance, that may be enjoyed by fans of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.

Authors and books mentioned in this episode 

• Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• Zero History by William Gibson
• Far From the Madding Crowd - film adaptation directed by Thomas Vinterberg 
• The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
• After the Plague by T. C. Boyle
• The Terranauts by T. C. Boyle
• The Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang
• The Left Hand Darkness by Ursula Le Guin 
• Severance by Ling Ma
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Dawn of the Dead directed by George Romero
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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