Epidemic


Fever 1793
Year of Wonders
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Blindness
The Ghost Map
The Plague
Station Eleven
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Pull of the Stars
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The Stand
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Heroine by Mindy McGinnisYou'd Be Home Now by Kathleen GlasgowFirekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline BoulleyWrecked by Heather HensonFix by J. Albert Mann
Opioid Epidemic in YA Fiction
12 books — 3 voters

The Stand by Stephen  KingI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonDoomsday Book by Connie WillisThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonYear of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Fiction About Epidemics
131 books — 112 voters
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson BurnettChasing Secrets by Gennifer CholdenkoAt the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary HooperA Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier
YA & Middle Grade Epidemics/Pandemics
245 books — 62 voters

The Dog Stars by Peter HellerThis Time of Dying by Reina JamesThe Stand by Stephen  KingStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelVixen by Rosie Garland
Pandemic Fiction
10 books — 4 voters
Year of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksDoomsday Book by Connie WillisWorld Without End by Ken FollettForever Amber by Kathleen WinsorThe Plague by Albert Camus
Bubonic Plague
102 books — 60 voters

in the run-up to South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, Nelson Mandela was reportedly advised not to make AIDS into a campaign issue for fear of offending culturally conservative constituencies. ‘I wanted to win,’ said Mandela, ‘and I did not talk about AIDS.
Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet

Nicholas P. Money
The concept of an imported epidemic laying wast to vulnerable native inhabitants works just as well applied to the British, and other colonial nations, as it does to fungal spores.
Nicholas P. Money, The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History

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