Big Books of 2026
Genres

Polio


Polio Books

Nemesis
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (Anniversary Edition)
We Are All Welcome Here
Polio: An American Story
Chasing Orion
Blue (Ann Fay Honeycutt, #1)
The Giant-Slayer
The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio
The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
The Golden Age
Crossing to Safety
I'll Watch the Moon
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
To Stand On My Own: The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937 (Dear Canada)
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
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Lists

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)
124 books — 14 voters
Building Social Business by Muhammad YunusStarting From Scratch by John BarfieldThe Overstory by Richard PowersThe Promise of World Peace by Universal House of JusticeParis Talks by Abdu'l-Bahá
Books that model Rotarian values
27 books — 4 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
698 books — 577 voters
The Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettInferno by Steven HatchThe Great Mortality by John KellyFlu by Gina KolataThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Terrifying Plagues
36 books — 9 voters

Quotes Tagged “Polio”

Carl Sagan
“ If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science. ”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Philip Roth
“ Though I'd never forgotten Alan, I hadn't uttered his name aloud in the many years since he'd died, back in that decade when it seemed that the greatest menaces on earth were war, the atomic bomb, and polio. ...more ”
― Philip Roth, Nemesis
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Videos Tagged “Polio”

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