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The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 17,943 ratings — published 2002
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as smallpox)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,543 ratings — published 2003
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,821 ratings — published 2001
Pox: An American History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 863 ratings — published 2011
Code Orange (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.62 — 7,236 ratings — published 2005
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as smallpox)
avg rating 4.10 — 370 ratings — published 2009
Angel of Death: The Story of Smallpox (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 4.00 — 69 ratings — published 2010
The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,690 ratings — published 1999
Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 4.42 — 650 ratings — published 2015
The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.74 — 792 ratings — published 2016
The Fever Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,081 ratings — published 2012
The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as smallpox)
avg rating 3.52 — 52 ratings — published 1983
Bleak House (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.02 — 113,284 ratings — published 1853
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.04 — 255 ratings — published 2022
Rebellion 1776 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,499 ratings — published 2025
The Life and Death of Smallpox (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.41 — 34 ratings — published 2004
Smallpox: A History 1st Edition by S.L. Kotar, J.E. Gessler (2013) Paperback
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Vaster Wilds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 42,212 ratings — published 2023
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.35 — 195,842 ratings — published 2023
The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.55 — 16,013 ratings — published 2006
Vaccination Investigation: The History and Science of Vaccines (Library Binding)
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avg rating 3.81 — 57 ratings — published
The Eradication of Smallpox: Edward Jenner and The First and Only Eradication of a Human Infectious Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.44 — 9 ratings — published 2000
The Robber Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.99 — 323 ratings — published 2021
Hope's Highest Mountain (Hearts of Montana, #1)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3,208 ratings — published 2019
The Grace Year (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 232,315 ratings — published 2019
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13,871 ratings — published 2017
The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the Epidemic That Changed America's Destiny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.30 — 140 ratings — published 2010
The Raven Prince (Princes Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 24,784 ratings — published 2006
Caroline's Comets: A True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.81 — 385 ratings — published 2017
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,066 ratings — published 2017
The 1959 Yellowstone Earthquake (Disaster)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.94 — 434 ratings — published 2016
Pox: Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.76 — 444 ratings — published 2003
The Pursuit (Fox and O'Hare, #5)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,011 ratings — published 2016
Frog Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.20 — 26,730 ratings — published 2014
Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as smallpox)
avg rating 3.83 — 532 ratings — published 2001
Een schitterend gebrek (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 16,224 ratings — published 2003
Catch the Wind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.36 — 14 ratings — published 1987
River of Sky (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.46 — 54 ratings — published 1994
The Great Death (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 284 ratings — published 2009
I Am Pilgrim (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 196,935 ratings — published 2013
Imperial Woman (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 9,179 ratings — published 1956
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (ebook)
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avg rating 3.89 — 45,750 ratings — published 2006
Thuggin In Miami (The Family Is Made : Part 1)
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avg rating 3.62 — 333 ratings — published 2012
The Smallpox Genocide of the Odawa Tribe at L'Arbre Croche, 1763: The History of a Native American People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2007
“Ask the Aztecs and the Incas whether or not they would have liked to have access to vaccines. Oh, wait, you can't. They're dead. Vaccination is one of the best things that has happened to civilization. Empires toppled like sandcastles in the wake of diseases we do not give a second thought to today. If taking a moment to elaborate on that point will make this book unpopular with a large group of antivaxxers, that’s okay. This feels like a good hill to die on. It’s surely a better one than the Incas got.”
― Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
― Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
“They were as good and as strong as Rome. Historical fluke the Spanish ever managed to get the better of them.’
‘How did they?’ I said, wanting suddenly and badly to know.
‘Smallpox,’ he said. ‘It wasn’t strategy or anything like that. The Spanish brought smallpox with them when they landed in Mexico. It arrived in Peru before they did. And the Inca had built a wonderful, efficient road system for it to travel on. The royal family was obliterated in five years, the administration of the empire collapsed, and Pizarro took the whole thing with five thousand men. One of the most ridiculous confluences of bad luck in history.”
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‘How did they?’ I said, wanting suddenly and badly to know.
‘Smallpox,’ he said. ‘It wasn’t strategy or anything like that. The Spanish brought smallpox with them when they landed in Mexico. It arrived in Peru before they did. And the Inca had built a wonderful, efficient road system for it to travel on. The royal family was obliterated in five years, the administration of the empire collapsed, and Pizarro took the whole thing with five thousand men. One of the most ridiculous confluences of bad luck in history.”
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