Plagues


The Plague
Year of Wonders
The Stand
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Station Eleven
The Ghost Map
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Fever 1793
Plagues and Peoples
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
A Journal of the Plague Year
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Spillover by David QuammenThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsGet Well Soon by Jennifer   WrightPandemic by Sonia Shah
Pandemics and Epidemics (nonfiction)
125 books — 15 voters
The Stand by Stephen  KingThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonDoomsday Book by Connie Willis
Infection Novels
126 books — 29 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 — 61 voters
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingGone by Michael  GrantThe Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. NelsonThe Maze Runner by James DashnerThe Enemy by Charlie Higson
No Adults
84 books — 43 voters

#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawFracking by Kathryn   Hulick#SayHerName by Kimberlé CrenshawUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Cynthia Kennedy HenzelViewpoint Diversity by John Tomasi
Special Reports series
45 books — 10 voters

Larry Kramer
Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me

Ben Witherington III
Verse 12 [of Ex. 12) tells us that the judgment of Yahweh is not only on the Egyptians but also on their deities. This is probably an allusion to the fact that Egyptians would often pray for the safety of their firstborn, particularly firstborn sons, as was the custom in many ancient patriarchal cultures. The death of the firstborn would be seen as a sign of the anger or perhaps the impotence of their gods. This is worth pondering when it comes to the death of Jesus as God’s only begotten, or be ...more
Ben Witherington III, Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper

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