Big Books of 2026
Genres

Epidemics


Epidemics Books

I Am Legend and Other Stories
Fever 1793
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Station Eleven
Plagues and Peoples
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
The Strain (The Strain #1)
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Stand
The Plague
Year of Wonders
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 1 by Robert KirkmanInstauration by Sarah Lyons FlemingThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsLock In by John Scalzi1984 by George Orwell
Apoca-tips: Post-Apocalyptic Jaw Droppers
15 books — 1 voter
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryGet Well Soon by Jennifer WrightAmanda Gorman Book by University PressHistory Smashers by Kate Messner
Staff Picks: Pandemic Reads
100 books — 5 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Post-Apocalyptia
489 books — 403 voters
A Shot to Save the World by Gregory ZuckermanThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettOwning the Sun by Alexander ZaitchikAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Plagues, Pandemics and Epidemics
31 books — 7 voters

Quotes Tagged “Epidemics”

“ In times of stress and danger such as come about as the result of an epidemic, many tragic and cruel phases of human nature are brought out, as well as many brave and unselfish ones. ”
― William Crawford Gorgas, Sanitation in Panama
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Sarah Kendzior
“ There is a kinship, between the climate scientists and the epidemiologists and the scholars of authoritarian states. The people who research worst-case scenarios are stuck breaking bad news while protectors of profit margins and purveyors of institutionalist mythologies market false assurances. The later remain successful not in spite of evidence, but to spite the evidence. ”
― Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
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Groups Tagged "Epidemics"

Novels set in the present and future that have global warming and climate change as the stage, s…more
162 members, last active 7 days ago
Come join us for some illness and epi-/pandemic narratives in the time of Covid-19. Organised by…more
9 members, last active 5 years ago