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Epidemics


Epidemics Books

Fever 1793
I Am Legend and Other Stories
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Ghost Map
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)
The Stand
Year of Wonders
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Last Town on Earth
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The Hot Zone by Richard PrestonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelSpillover by David QuammenThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
These Books Will Kill You
356 books — 319 voters
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

Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad YunusDebunking Holocaust Denial Theories by James MorcanField Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
Wicked Problems
3 books — 2 voters
The Premonition by Michael LewisTen Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed ZakariaOut of the Cage by Matthew LightfootA State of Fear by Laura DodsworthThe Plague Year by Lawrence Wright
Coronavirus Reading List
156 books — 15 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonDoomsday Book by Connie WillisThe Hot Zone by Richard PrestonStation Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Best Popular Pandemic Books on Goodreads
96 books — 32 voters
A House of Tailors by Patricia Reilly GiffRed Madness by Gail JarrowFatal Fever by Gail JarrowPatient Zero by Marilee PetersTerrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Medical Mystery for Children
15 books — 3 voters

Quotes Tagged “Epidemics”

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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“ [From Spillover- Zika, Ebola, and Beyond, 2016] - Lina Moses, Epidemiologist, Sierra Leone One of the tragedies of Ebola is that it spreads through LOVE and through people taking care of who they care about. Once people start to understand how its transmitted, they learn that they can't take care of the people that they love, and that's how the disease slows down and stops. ...more ”
― Lina Moses
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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
166 members, last active 33 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