I just finished The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker. By that I mean I just now, after having stayed up late reading and then lolling in bed reading and then carrying it into the kitchen to read while feeding the cats, finished this book and then rushed right here to tell everyone.
It was published in 2019, and it’s listed as science fiction, but this is a book about an epidemic of people falling asleep and staying asleep, and in 2023, it doesn’t feel like science fiction the way it would have in 2019. It’s focused as much on the internal lives of the people in a small college town where the illness strikes as on the external action, and that puts it right up my alley.