3. Read Sea of Tranquility

The Station Eleven author’s new novel. Knopf, April 5.

In 1912 England, an aristocrat is exiled to Canada; 300 years later, an author leaves the moon for a book tour. Their stories (and others over the centuries) reduplicate in subtle and sci-fi ways. Emily St. John Mandel also riffs on today, as a pandemic rattles the novel’s universe.