2018 ASR

A National Book Award finalist and winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Station Eleven, a novel by Emily St. John Mandel, was voted Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, NPR, Entertainment Weekly,Time, and many others.

The novel focuses on the events leading up to a devastating flu pandemic that wipes out 99% of the world’s population and follows several characters whose lives are intertwined before and after this cataclysmic event. In imagining a post-apocalyptic world, the book implores readers to consider the fleeting beauty of life as we know it and ask themselves, "What would I miss?" This and many other questions will linger long after the last page is turned.