Polio


Nemesis
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (Anniversary Edition)
We Are All Welcome Here
Polio: An American Story
Chasing Orion
Blue (Ann Fay Honeycutt, #1)
The Giant-Slayer
The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio
The Polio Pioneer: Dr. Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
The Golden Age
Crossing to Safety
I'll Watch the Moon
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
To Stand On My Own: The Polio Epidemic Diary of Noreen Robertson, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1937 (Dear Canada)
Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
The Coming Plague by Laurie GarrettInferno by Steven HatchThe Great Mortality  by John     KellyFlu by Gina KolataThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Terrifying Plagues
36 books — 9 voters
Small Steps by Peg KehretJubilee by KT JohnstonRisking Exposure by Jeanne MoranHero of Lesser Causes by Julie JohnstonIn the Clear by Anne Laurel Carter
Polio
54 books — 14 voters

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
703 books — 578 voters
ALS Saved My Life ... until it didn't by Jenni Kleinman BerebitskyHyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldEl Deafo by Cece Bell
Books Written by Disabled Authors
405 books — 170 voters

Philip Roth
Though I'd never forgotten Alan, I hadn't uttered his name aloud in the many years since he'd died, back in that decade when it seemed that the greatest menaces on earth were war, the atomic bomb, and polio. ...more
Philip Roth, Nemesis

Carl Sagan
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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