14. The Dreamers

By Karen Thompson Walker (299 pp)

My sister-in-law gave me this book for Xmas because she wanted to give me a book but I complained already have too much to read. She picked this because it was short. It's also about a pandemic. A college student falls asleep and doesn't wake up and then others in her dorm fall sick. There is a quarantine. The town is cut off. The book follows a number of characters trying to navigate the disorder.