Viruses


Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)
The Strain (The Strain #1)
Snow Crash
A Planet of Viruses
Transmission
Brains: A Darkly Humorous Zombie Fantasy – The Sentient Professor's Memoir
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Viruses, Plagues, and History
The Fireman
The Stand
Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3)
The Demon in the Freezer
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 — 578 voters
The Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonSpillover by David QuammenThe Living Medicine by Lina Zeldovich10% Human by Alanna CollenMissing Microbes by Martin J. Blaser
Best Books about Microbiology
26 books — 13 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
History of Medicine
352 books — 159 voters
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

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse AndersonWhat Is the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19? by Michael BurganLife on the Line by Emma GoldbergThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAlone Together by Garth Stein
Staff Picks: Pandemic Reads
100 books — 6 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
246 books — 62 voters

Lish McBride
Fear, left unchecked, can spread like a virus.
Lish McBride, Necromancing the Stone

Steven Magee
The definition of ‘Summit Brain’ is a malfunctioning brain that is at high altitude and/or is hypoxic and/or is radiation exposed and/or has been exposed to Faraday cages and/or has viruses and/or has used medical oxygen and/or has used over the counter drugs and/or has been exposed to industrial pollutants and/or has been exposed to partial vacuum and/or has malnutrition and/or has long term damage from the various exposures.
Steven Magee

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