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Epidemics


Epidemics Books

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
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Lists

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
Out of the Cage by Matthew LightfootThe Premonition by Michael LewisTen Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed ZakariaA State of Fear by Laura DodsworthThe Plague Year by Lawrence Wright
Coronavirus Reading List
156 books — 16 voters

The Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonThe Great Trouble by Deborah HopkinsonPandemic by Sonia ShahFilth by William A. CohenCholera by Amanda J. Thomas
Broad Street Cholera Epidemic
16 books — 7 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
131 books — 112 voters

The Stand by Stephen KingWorld War Z by Max BrooksThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsI Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Post-Apocalyptia
488 books — 401 voters
The Hot Zone by Richard PrestonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStation Eleven by Emily St. John MandelSpillover by David QuammenThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
These Books Will Kill You
356 books — 321 voters

Quotes Tagged “Epidemics”

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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Jared Diamond
“ The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas. ...more ”
― Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Groups Tagged "Epidemics"

Come join us for some illness and epi-/pandemic narratives in the time of Covid-19. Organised by…more
9 members, last active 6 years ago
Novels set in the present and future that have global warming and climate change as the stage, s…more
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