Kyle Harrison
to-read
The Plague
- Author
- Albert Camus
- Published
- 1947
- Pages
- 308
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Camus’s novel of an epidemic sealing off the Algerian city of Oran, and the people who choose to fight it with no promise that it means anything.
Where I heard about it
- @athenaeumbc — one of ~35 old books in a stack photographed by Athenaeum Book Club (October 2026) under the line “One of the hidden benefits of reading old books is that they rescue you from the arrogance of the present.” The full stack is listed on One of the hidden benefits… (tweet).
Connections
- Albert Camus — author.
- The Stranger — Camus’s earlier novel, already on the anti-library.
- One of the hidden benefits… (tweet) — the stack it came from.