Epidemics


Fever 1793
I Am Legend and Other Stories
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Ghost Map
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Station Eleven
Plagues and Peoples
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
The Strain (The Strain #1)
The Stand
Year of Wonders
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
The Last Town on Earth
Year of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksDoomsday Book by Connie WillisWorld Without End by Ken FollettForever Amber by Kathleen WinsorThe Plague by Albert Camus
Bubonic Plague
97 books — 59 voters

Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad YunusDebunking Holocaust Denial Theories by James MorcanField Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
Wicked Problems
3 books — 2 voters
The Premonition by Michael   LewisTen Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed ZakariaOut of the Cage by Matthew LightfootA State of Fear by Laura DodsworthThe Plague Year by Lawrence Wright
Coronavirus Reading List
156 books — 15 voters

Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Living Medicine by Lina ZeldovichThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAnd the Band Played On by Randy Shilts
Books for the time of Pandemics
138 books — 37 voters
The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsThe Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
History of disease
165 books — 69 voters

Jared Diamond
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. ...more
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

T.K. Naliaka
Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics; laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.
T.K. Naliaka

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