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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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A House of Tailors by Patricia Reilly GiffRed Madness by Gail JarrowFatal Fever by Gail JarrowWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsPatient Zero by Marilee Peters
Medical Mystery for Children
16 books — 4 voters
As Bright as Heaven by Susan MeissnerIn the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat WintersThe Pull of the Stars by Emma DonoghueA Death-Struck Year by Makiia LucierThe Birth House by Ami McKay
1918 Flu Pandemic
98 books — 66 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
History of disease
165 books — 69 voters
The Stand by Stephen KingThe Hot Zone by Richard PrestonWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Books for a Pandemic
705 books — 579 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLab Girl by Hope JahrenStiff by Mary RoachSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Science Writing By People of Marginalized Genders
257 books — 91 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

Quotes Tagged “Epidemics”

Jared Diamond
“ The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas. ...more ”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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T.K. Naliaka
“ Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics; laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls. ”
― T.K. Naliaka
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Groups Tagged "Epidemics"

Come join us for some illness and epi-/pandemic narratives in the time of Covid-19. Organised by…more
9 members, last active 6 years ago
Novels set in the present and future that have global warming and climate change as the stage, s…more
169 members, last active 19 days ago