Classical Dystopia fiction:
- Circe Greek Gods and such (from Austin),
Short Stories
- Pale Horse Pal Rider – Katherine Anne Porter
Dead people:
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk - Reporting on suicides
- Lincoln at the Bardo. Dead son
Murder;
- Yellow Bird, Oil , Murder… by Sierra Crane Murdoch
- The City and The City by China Miéville
Journey
- House of the Tiger King —Inca Spanish search Tahir Shah
Historical
- The Splendid and the Vile - Erik Larson on Winston Churchill
Pandemic Books:
- The End of October Pandemic
- The Great Influenza by John Barry
- Station 11 – post dystopian
- Camus the Plague,
- The Last Man by Mary Shelley