2026 Reading Challenge
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Bacteria


Bacteria Books

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
Clean: The New Science of Skin
Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria
44 Poems on Being with Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Collection
Take It from Me: An Agent's Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch
Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau Visionary
The Boundaries of Her Body: A Shocking History of Women's Rights in America
The Post-Office Girl
The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos
On Freedom
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Lithium for Medea
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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 Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettThe Hot Zone by Richard Preston
History of disease
163 books — 68 voters

Never Home Alone by Rob DunnWeeds by Alexander C. MartinA Weed by Any Other Name by Nancy GiftThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettParasite Rex by Carl Zimmer
Weeds, pests, invasives, and diseases
132 books — 5 voters
A Shot to Save the World by Gregory ZuckermanOwning the Sun by Alexander ZaitchikThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Plagues, Pandemics and Epidemics
31 books — 7 voters

A House of Tailors by Patricia Reilly GiffFatal Fever by Gail JarrowRed Madness by Gail JarrowPatient Zero by Marilee PetersTerrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Medical Mystery for Children
15 books — 3 voters
The Hot Zone by Richard PrestonSpillover by David QuammenThe Living Medicine by Lina Zeldovich10% Human by Alanna CollenMissing Microbes by Martin J. Blaser
Best Books about Microbiology
26 books — 13 voters

Quotes Tagged “Bacteria”

“ I was born in a dumpster, in an alley behind a dive bar. A wee speck of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, baptized by saliva from a hospital orderly, clinging to a wedge of pizza crust. Honestly, I didn’t want to hurt anyone—certainly not the Norwegian rat who gobbled me with his yellowed fangs, feeding me a banquet of liquefied refuse. We’d both gotten a bad rap, MRSA and rats. ”
― Alicia Hilton, Rigor Morbid: Lest Ye Become
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Thomm Quackenbush
“ The human body is infinitely intricate, systems within systems that must work in consort if death isn't going to claim it at once. One needed an ecosystem of bacteria to maintain homeostasis. Evolution was lazy when something else could shoulder that burden. ...more ”
― Thomm Quackenbush, The Lifecycle of Suns
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