SAN ANTONIO – The 2020 San Antonio Book Festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 crisis, but they are encouraging people to read while at home.
To that end, the festival released two lists with suggested reads, one for kids and one for adults.
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Here are the recommended books for adults:
If You Feel Like Confronting the Pandemic Head-On:
Fiction:
- Cold Storage by David Koepp
- The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
- Severance by Ling Ma
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Nonfiction:
- Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney
If You'd Rather Be Distracted:
Fiction:
- The Jetsetters by Amanda Eyre Ward
- A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
- Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
Nonfiction:
- The Hunt for History by Nathan Raab
- The Falcon Thief by Joshua Hammer
- The Rumi Prescription by Melody Moezzi
Here are the recommended books for kids and teens:
Kids:
- Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar
- Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
- Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeeed
Teens:
- Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry
- The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
- Bull by David Elliot
The San Antonio Book Festival unites readers and writers in a celebration of books, ideas, and literary culture.
The 2020 festival was supposed to take place in April but has since been canceled.
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