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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as disease)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,670 ratings — published 1994
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as disease)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,885 ratings — published 2006
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as disease)
avg rating 4.31 — 303,729 ratings — published 2025
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as disease)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,064 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 — 43,482 ratings — published 2004
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as disease)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,893,047 ratings — published 2012
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as disease)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,602 ratings — published 2012
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as disease)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,798 ratings — published 2002
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as disease)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,200 ratings — published 2012
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as disease)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,355 ratings — published 2005
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as disease)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,774 ratings — published 2010
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disease)
avg rating 4.02 — 334,415 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 — 10,804 ratings — published 1994
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,847 ratings — published 2006
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disease)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,597 ratings — published 2017
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disease)
avg rating 4.06 — 650,587 ratings — published 2014
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as disease)
avg rating 4.01 — 180,203 ratings — published 2001
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disease)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,237 ratings — published 2023
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 — 7,704 ratings — published 1999
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 277,434 ratings — published 1969
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disease)
avg rating 3.95 — 692,190 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disease)
avg rating 4.04 — 474,070 ratings — published 1997
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disease)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,151 ratings — published 1976
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disease)
avg rating 4.33 — 367,005 ratings — published 2007
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disease)
avg rating 4.13 — 830,583 ratings — published 2010
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 4.15 — 199,022 ratings — published 2016
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,341 ratings — published 2017
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,932 ratings — published 2001
Going Bovine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,394 ratings — published 2009
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.20 — 143,904 ratings — published 2003
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,037,338 ratings — published 2012
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.35 — 865,059 ratings — published 1978
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as disease)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,139 ratings — published 1992
The Family that Couldn't Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disease)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,693 ratings — published 2006
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disease)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,339 ratings — published 2007
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as disease)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,724 ratings — published 2012
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as disease)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,350 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 — 30,018 ratings — published 1987
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as disease)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,158 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 — 250,956 ratings — published 2014
The Pull of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.95 — 92,165 ratings — published 2020
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 4.43 — 8,576 ratings — published 2019
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.44 — 103,497 ratings — published 2019
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,226 ratings — published 2017
A Journal of the Plague Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.55 — 12,220 ratings — published 1722
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 4.02 — 582,222 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 — 2,186 ratings — published 2004
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,578 ratings — published 2007
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 4.23 — 164,763 ratings — published 2015
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 3.82 — 142,558 ratings — published 2014
“In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.”
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“but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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