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Disease Books
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as disease)
avg rating 4.16 — 122,246 ratings — published 1994
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as disease)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,626 ratings — published 2006
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as disease)
avg rating 3.93 — 134,021 ratings — published 2000
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as disease)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,805 ratings — published 2004
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as disease)
avg rating 4.34 — 222,659 ratings — published 2025
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as disease)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,761,375 ratings — published 2012
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as disease)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,576 ratings — published 2012
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as disease)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,255 ratings — published 2002
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as disease)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,808 ratings — published 2005
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disease)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,616 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as disease)
avg rating 4.34 — 115,234 ratings — published 2010
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disease)
avg rating 4.02 — 318,885 ratings — published 1947
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disease)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,749 ratings — published 1994
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,744 ratings — published 2006
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disease)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,160 ratings — published 2017
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disease)
avg rating 4.07 — 621,662 ratings — published 2014
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as disease)
avg rating 4.01 — 176,398 ratings — published 2001
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,678 ratings — published 1999
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 272,774 ratings — published 1969
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disease)
avg rating 3.96 — 681,401 ratings — published 2015
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disease)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,659 ratings — published 2023
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disease)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,038 ratings — published 1997
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disease)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,024 ratings — published 1976
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disease)
avg rating 4.32 — 361,962 ratings — published 2007
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disease)
avg rating 4.13 — 810,142 ratings — published 2010
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,190 ratings — published 2017
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.71 — 222,015 ratings — published 2001
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 4.35 — 841,376 ratings — published 1978
Going Bovine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,287 ratings — published 2009
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.20 — 141,156 ratings — published 2003
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.16 — 189,089 ratings — published 2016
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,017,164 ratings — published 2012
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as disease)
avg rating 4.03 — 65,165 ratings — published 1992
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disease)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,132 ratings — published 2007
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as disease)
avg rating 4.09 — 239,037 ratings — published 2012
The Family that Couldn't Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as disease)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,515 ratings — published 2006
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as disease)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,231 ratings — published 2001
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as disease)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,455 ratings — published 1987
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as disease)
avg rating 3.45 — 100,807 ratings — published 2019
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as disease)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,023 ratings — published 2005
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.95 — 246,252 ratings — published 2014
The Pull of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.95 — 89,765 ratings — published 2020
A Journal of the Plague Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.55 — 11,937 ratings — published 1722
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 4.02 — 570,246 ratings — published 2006
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,173 ratings — published 2004
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,535 ratings — published 2007
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,957 ratings — published 2019
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 3.93 — 63,200 ratings — published 2017
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 4.24 — 161,996 ratings — published 2015
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 3.40 — 5,477 ratings — published 2001
“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”
― Prometheus Bound
― Prometheus Bound
“You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer."
"Did he show you slides?"
We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.”
― VALIS
"Did he show you slides?"
We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.”
― VALIS
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