[Updated February 2024]Looking for something interesting to read in this spare time? We all have some extra time because of lockdown, now is the perfect time to finally read a few interesting books that will bind you for a while. We’ve rounded up five of the best books to read in self-isolation – a combination of thrillers, criminal dramas, love stories, etc.
The Top 5 Best Books you can Read during Self-Isolation
| Image | Title | Price | Prime | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel | Prime | Buy Now | |
 | After Me Comes the Flood: A Novel | Prime | Buy Now | |
 | The Glass Hotel: A novel | Prime | Buy Now | |
 | Last Couple Standing: A Novel | Prime | Buy Now | |
 | Victim 2117: A Department Q Novel | Prime | Buy Now |
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After Me Comes the Flood: A Novel
- A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one.” —Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests
- Deeply creepy and startlingly well-written. -- Times Literary Supplement
- Sarah Perrys first novel, After Me Comes the Flood, was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Folio Prize, and won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award. She was born in Essex and lives in Norwich, England.
The Glass Hotel: A novel
- The Glass Hotel may be the perfect novel for your survival bunker. --Ron Charles, The Washington Post
- A New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Newsweek, Bustle, Buzzfeed, GoodReads, Houston Chronicle, Writers Digest, Medium, Washington Independent Review of Books, The Millions, Boston Globe, USA Today, and Womens Day Most Anticipated Book of 2021
- From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events-a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea.
Last Couple Standing: A Novel
- A couple determined not to end up like their divorced friends try a radical experiment—and get in way over their heads—in this hilarious, heartfelt novel from the author of We’re All Damaged.
- “This warm and witty tale of a devoted couple willing to throw out that pesky ‘forsaking all others’ rule in order to stay together crackles with fierce energy and emotional truth.”—Judy Blundell, New York Times bestselling author of The High Season
- “The funniest book Ive read in a long time. In Last Couple Standing, Matthew Norman has written a heartfelt, perceptive, and thoroughly entertaining novel.” —Richard Roper, author of How Not to Die Alone
Victim 2117: A Department Q Novel
- In the heart-pounding next installment of the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Department Q series, a terrifying international investigation reveals the complex backstory of one of the departments own—the enigmatic Assad.
- “Adler-Olsen supplies everything you could possibly want from a thriller and much, much more.”—Kirkus
- “Scandinavian crime novels don’t get much darker than Jussi Adler-Olsen’s Department Q police procedurals.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
- “It can be hard to distinguish Scandinavian crime writers... but Jussi Adler-Olsen is a name to know. In a crowded genre, Adler-Olsen is an outlier.”—GQ.com
- “Thrilling, clever, and driven by a rough-hewn protagonist.”—Paste Magazine
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