The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter HeatherThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward GibbonThe Later Roman Empire by Ammianus MarcellinusEmpires and Barbarians by Peter HeatherHow Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
Books on the Later Roman Empire
13th out of 166 books — 45 voters
The Secret History by ProcopiusFourteen Byzantine Rulers by Michael PsellusByzantium by Judith HerrinThe Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven RuncimanThe Alexiad by Anna Comnena
Medieval Roman Empire
11th out of 251 books — 30 voters

My Name Is Red by Orhan PamukSnow by Orhan PamukIstanbul by Orhan PamukBirds Without Wings by Louis de BernièresThe Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
Mediterranean Melting Pot (III): Byzantium and Turkey
44th out of 165 books — 211 voters
The Histories by HerodotusA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanTHE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR by Ahmed AlshuwaikhatJohn Adams by David McCulloughThe Trigger by Tim Butcher
History as Literature
239th out of 739 books — 608 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
67th out of 96 books — 32 voters
Spillover by David QuammenThe Great Mortality by John     KellyRabid by Bill  WasikFlu by Gina KolataEbola by David Quammen
Scourges, Plagues and Epidemics (nonfiction)
23rd out of 144 books — 17 voters

Inferno by Dan    BrownScarlett by Alexandra RipleyThe Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. AuelJustinian’s Flea by William RosenBen-Hur by Lew Wallace
Endless info dumping and exposition
4th out of 65 books — 19 voters

The Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonSpillover by David QuammenThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul Ola
Pathogens and Disease
69th out of 108 books — 37 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneMad Love by Lynessa LayneThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
An Eclectic Booklist
141st out of 197 books — 51 voters

Inside the Hot Zone by Mark G. KortepeterPale Rider by Laura SpinneyThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryCrisis in the Red Zone by Richard   PrestonFlu by Gina Kolata
Plague And Pandemic Books Fact And Fiction
99th out of 105 books — 22 voters
Caine's Reckoning by Sarah McCartyKilling Time by Cindy GerardCinder by Marissa MeyerBy the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha ChristieSlightly Wicked by Mary Balogh
Average Books
12th out of 87 books — 9 voters

Anatomy of COVID Calamity by Widad AkreyiThe Pendulum has Swung too far by Karl WigginsThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich NietzscheThe Decameron by Giovanni BoccaccioThe Healthiest Diet on the Planet by John A. McDougall
The Anatomy of COVID-19
64th out of 87 books — 23 voters
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
173rd out of 356 books — 319 voters

On Learning to Heal by Ed CohenThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Wounded Storyteller by Arthur W. FrankThe Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun WangIllness by Havi Carel
Illness As Narrative
182nd out of 228 books — 19 voters
World Without End by Ken FollettThe Great Mortality by John     KellyIn the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. CantorDoomsday Book by Connie WillisThe Black Death in London by Barney Sloane
The Black Death
40th out of 44 books — 29 voters

The Trigger by Tim ButcherThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankA Distant Mirror by Barbara W. TuchmanPostwar by Tony JudtThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
European History
781st out of 788 books — 160 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
153rd out of 165 books — 69 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. RowlingThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best Books Ever
48981st out of 77,831 books — 290,382 voters

A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master by K.  RitzThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
All-Time Awesome Books
8284th out of 12,640 books — 8,340 voters