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Books for a Pandemic
Here are the best literary and scientific works to orient ourselves in the time of contagion.
Tags: epidemic, flu, pandemic, plague, and swineflu

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The Plague
The Plague
by Albert Camus 12 people voted »
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The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
by Richard Preston 10 people voted »
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The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain
by Michael Crichton 9 people voted »
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The Stand
The Stand
by Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson (Illustrator) 8 people voted »
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The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Dead...
by John M. Barry 7 people voted »
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Death in Venice
Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann 6 people voted »
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Blindness
Blindness
by José Saramago, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 6 people voted »
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Doomsday Book
Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis 5 people voted »
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I Am Legend
I Am Legend
by Richard Matheson 5 people voted »
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman (Translator) 4 people voted »
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Outbreak
Outbreak
by Robin Cook 4 people voted »
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The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
The Last Town on Earth: A Novel
by Thomas Mullen 4 people voted »
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Angels in America:  A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Part One: Millennium Approaches Part Two:  Perestroika
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National ...
by Tony Kushner 4 people voted »
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A Distant Mirror:  The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman 4 people voted »
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Year of Wonders
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks 3 people voted »
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and t...
by Randy Shilts 3 people voted »
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chroni...
by Hillary Johnson 2 people voted »
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A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year
by Daniel Defoe 2 people voted »
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Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic
Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic
by Gina Kolata 2 people voted »
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The Decameron
The Decameron
by Giovanni Boccaccio, G. H. McWilliam (Editor, Translator, Introduction) 2 people voted »
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a...
by Laurie Garrett 2 people voted »
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terri...
by Steven Johnson 2 people voted »
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe 2 people voted »
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Forever Amber
Forever Amber
by Kathleen Winsor 2 people voted »
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The Survivors Club
The Survivors Club
by Lisa Gardner 1 person voted »
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Pandemic
Pandemic
by Daniel Kalla 1 person voted »
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25
The Brief History of the Dead
The Brief History of the Dead
by Kevin Brockmeier 1 person voted »
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The Years of Rice and Salt
The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson 1 person voted »
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Genesis
Genesis
by Bernard Beckett 1 person voted »
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O Ano da Peste Negra
O Ano da Peste Negra
by Ana Maria Magalhães, Isabel Alçada 1 person voted »
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The Third Pandemic
The Third Pandemic
by Pierre Ouellette 1 person voted »
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After the Plague: Stories
After the Plague: Stories
by T.C. Boyle 1 person voted »
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The Dress Lodger
The Dress Lodger
by Sheri Holman 1 person voted »
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The Pesthouse
The Pesthouse
by Jim Crace 1 person voted »
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Earth Abides
Earth Abides
by George R. Stewart 1 person voted »
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The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof
by Jean Giono 1 person voted »
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The Scarlet Plague
The Scarlet Plague
by Jack London 1 person voted »
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The White Plague
The White Plague
by Frank Herbert 1 person voted »
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The epidemic that never was: Policy-making and the swine flu scare
The epidemic that never was: Policy-making and ...
by Richard E Neustadt 1 person voted »
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The Doctor's Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Understanding, Treating, and Living with Cfids
The Doctor's Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:...
by David S. Bell 1 person voted »
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SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic?
SARS in China: Prelude to Pandemic?
by James D. Watson 1 person voted »
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
by Jesse A. Stoff, Charles Pellegrino 1 person voted »
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Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemi...
by Philip Alcabes 1 person voted »
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Purple Death : The Mysterious Flu of 1918
Purple Death : The Mysterious Flu of 1918
by David Getz 1 person voted »
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message 1: by Amy (new)

563794 Ha. I was just thinking this would be the pefect listopia for the times!


message 2: by Tom (new)

Nophoto-m-25x33 There's also The Horseman on the Roof, I am Legend and for non-fiction The Black Death by Philip Zengler.


message 3: by Topher (new)

234755 Tom wrote: "There's also The Horseman on the Roof, I am Legend and for non-fiction The Black Death by Philip Zengler."

You should them to the list, Tom!



message 4: by Tom (new)

Nophoto-m-25x33 Topher wrote: "Tom wrote: "There's also The Horseman on the Roof, I am Legend and for non-fiction The Black Death by Philip Zengler."

You should them to the list, Tom!
"


I would but I don't know how to do that. I'm new to this. There's also The Road by Cormac McCarthy.



message 5: by Amy (new)

563794 But The Road doesn't include a plague. It's post-apocalyptic, but there's never any clear indication of what's happened except that there was a loud noise and now all the trees are burned out. No plague.


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