Disease

A disease is a particular abnormal condition, a disorder of a structure or function, that affects part or all of an organism. The causal study of disease is called pathology. Disease is often construed as a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs.

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
The End of My Life Is Killing Me: The Unexpected Joys of a Cancer Slacker
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases
You Won't Believe Me
Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World (Turning Points in Ancient History)
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
Aniana del Mar Jumps In
Child Zero
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Ghost Map
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Fever 1793
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Fault in Our Stars
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
The Demon in the Freezer
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Plague
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
Station Eleven
The Stand by Stephen  KingThe Hot Zone by Richard   PrestonWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Plague by Albert CamusThe Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Books for a Pandemic
707 books — 586 voters
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
329 books — 333 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
358 books — 165 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
132 books — 113 voters


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