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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as disease)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,552 ratings — published 1994
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as disease)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,829 ratings — published 2006
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as disease)
avg rating 4.31 — 301,623 ratings — published 2025
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as disease)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,003 ratings — published 2000
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as disease)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,453 ratings — published 2004
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as disease)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,889,171 ratings — published 2012
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as disease)
avg rating 3.70 — 13,563 ratings — published 2012
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as disease)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,774 ratings — published 2002
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as disease)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,181 ratings — published 2012
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as disease)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,332 ratings — published 2005
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as disease)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,664 ratings — published 2010
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disease)
avg rating 4.02 — 333,813 ratings — published 1947
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disease)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,800 ratings — published 1994
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,846 ratings — published 2006
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disease)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,585 ratings — published 2017
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disease)
avg rating 4.06 — 649,627 ratings — published 2014
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as disease)
avg rating 4.01 — 180,107 ratings — published 2001
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disease)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,188 ratings — published 2023
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,704 ratings — published 1999
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 277,292 ratings — published 1969
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disease)
avg rating 3.95 — 691,881 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disease)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,637 ratings — published 1997
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disease)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,147 ratings — published 1976
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disease)
avg rating 4.33 — 366,861 ratings — published 2007
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disease)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,766 ratings — published 2010
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 4.15 — 198,642 ratings — published 2016
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,335 ratings — published 2017
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,829 ratings — published 2001
Going Bovine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,389 ratings — published 2009
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.20 — 143,819 ratings — published 2003
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,036,687 ratings — published 2012
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.35 — 864,210 ratings — published 1978
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as disease)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,079 ratings — published 1992
The Family that Couldn't Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disease)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,689 ratings — published 2006
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disease)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,333 ratings — published 2007
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as disease)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,560 ratings — published 2012
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as disease)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,349 ratings — published 2001
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as disease)
avg rating 4.39 — 29,995 ratings — published 1987
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as disease)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,154 ratings — published 2005
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.95 — 250,771 ratings — published 2014
The Pull of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.95 — 92,089 ratings — published 2020
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 4.43 — 8,558 ratings — published 2019
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.44 — 103,397 ratings — published 2019
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.93 — 65,161 ratings — published 2017
A Journal of the Plague Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.55 — 12,210 ratings — published 1722
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 4.02 — 581,744 ratings — published 2006
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,185 ratings — published 2004
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,578 ratings — published 2007
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 4.23 — 164,680 ratings — published 2015
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 3.82 — 141,925 ratings — published 2014
“There's nothing more debilitating about a disability than the way people treat you over it.”
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