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Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Night to Remember by Walter LordAlive by Piers Paul Read
Non-fiction Disaster Books
328 books — 328 voters
The Stand by Stephen KingWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonThe Hot Zone by Richard PrestonStation Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Apocalypse by Epidemic
260 books — 297 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
351 books — 158 voters
The Stand by Stephen KingI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard MathesonDoomsday Book by Connie WillisThe Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonYear of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Fiction About Epidemics
131 books — 112 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingAirborne by DiAnn MillsDisrupter by Cornelia E DavisWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Pandemic Medical Thrillers
354 books — 87 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

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 Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaMist Bound by Daryl KhoThe Hot Zone by Richard PrestonStill Alice by Lisa GenovaThe Human Trial by Audrey Gale
Books with Disease
106 books — 64 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
244 books — 61 voters
Year of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksDoomsday Book by Connie WillisWorld Without End by Ken FollettForever Amber by Kathleen WinsorThe Plague by Albert Camus
Bubonic Plague
97 books — 59 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
108 books — 37 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
96 books — 32 voters

World Without End by Ken FollettThe Great Mortality by John KellyIn the Wake of the Plague by Norman F. CantorThe Black Death in London by Barney SloaneDoomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Black Death
39 books — 28 voters
Year of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksThe Painted Veil by W. Somerset MaughamThe Pull of the Stars by Emma DonoghueAs Bright as Heaven by Susan MeissnerFever by Mary Beth Keane
Disease and Pandemics in Historical Fiction
61 books — 19 voters

The Birth of the Pill by Jonathan EigThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Living Medicine by Lina ZeldovichThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
True Medical Histories
35 books — 16 voters
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Trouble by Deborah HopkinsonPandemic by Sonia ShahFilth by William A. CohenCholera by Amanda J. Thomas
Broad Street Cholera Epidemic
15 books — 7 voters

Sam Phillips by Peter GuralnickFever Season by Jeanette KeithMemphis Rent Party by Robert GordonGoing Down Jericho Road by Michael K. HoneyThe Memphis Blues Again by Ernest C. Withers
U.S. Cities: Memphis, Tennessee (nonfiction)
77 books — 7 voters
The Stand by Stephen KingThis Time of Dying by Reina JamesSpanish Influenza by Ken RossignolPoetry in a time of Pestilence by Alex MorrittThe Rise of the Altereds by Marisa Noelle
Best Pandemic Books to Read During Quarantine
24 books — 6 voters

The Dog Stars by Peter HellerThis Time of Dying by Reina JamesThe Stand by Stephen KingStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelVixen by Rosie Garland
Pandemic Fiction
10 books — 4 voters
Heroine by Mindy McGinnisYou'd Be Home Now by Kathleen GlasgowFirekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline BoulleyWrecked by Heather HensonFix by J. Albert Mann
Opioid Epidemic in YA Fiction
12 books — 3 voters

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