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Disease Books
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as disease)
avg rating 4.16 — 122,512 ratings — published 1994
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as disease)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,726 ratings — published 2006
Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as disease)
avg rating 3.93 — 134,213 ratings — published 2000
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as disease)
avg rating 4.34 — 230,416 ratings — published 2025
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as disease)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,847 ratings — published 2004
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as disease)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,770,564 ratings — published 2012
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as disease)
avg rating 3.71 — 12,675 ratings — published 2012
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as disease)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,301 ratings — published 2002
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as disease)
avg rating 3.88 — 11,865 ratings — published 2005
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disease)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,653 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as disease)
avg rating 4.34 — 115,465 ratings — published 2010
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disease)
avg rating 4.02 — 319,929 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 — 10,754 ratings — published 1994
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,752 ratings — published 2006
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disease)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,191 ratings — published 2017
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disease)
avg rating 4.07 — 623,804 ratings — published 2014
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as disease)
avg rating 4.01 — 176,695 ratings — published 2001
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 — 7,680 ratings — published 1999
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as disease)
avg rating 3.91 — 273,135 ratings — published 1969
Everything, Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disease)
avg rating 3.96 — 682,192 ratings — published 2015
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disease)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,776 ratings — published 2023
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disease)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,912 ratings — published 1997
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disease)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,037 ratings — published 1976
Still Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disease)
avg rating 4.32 — 362,366 ratings — published 2007
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disease)
avg rating 4.13 — 811,674 ratings — published 2010
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,203 ratings — published 2017
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.71 — 222,209 ratings — published 2001
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 4.35 — 842,942 ratings — published 1978
Going Bovine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disease)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,294 ratings — published 2009
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.20 — 141,359 ratings — published 2003
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.16 — 189,977 ratings — published 2016
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as disease)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,018,684 ratings — published 2012
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as disease)
avg rating 4.03 — 65,267 ratings — published 1992
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disease)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,148 ratings — published 2007
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as disease)
avg rating 4.09 — 239,420 ratings — published 2012
The Family that Couldn't Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as disease)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,528 ratings — published 2006
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as disease)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,233 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 — 29,489 ratings — published 1987
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as disease)
avg rating 3.45 — 101,019 ratings — published 2019
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as disease)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,037 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 — 246,578 ratings — published 2014
The Pull of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.95 — 89,956 ratings — published 2020
A Journal of the Plague Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.55 — 11,957 ratings — published 1722
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 4.02 — 571,051 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 — 2,173 ratings — published 2004
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as disease)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,536 ratings — published 2007
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 4.42 — 7,981 ratings — published 2019
The Lost City of the Monkey God (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 3.93 — 63,331 ratings — published 2017
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 4.24 — 162,131 ratings — published 2015
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as disease)
avg rating 3.40 — 5,486 ratings — published 2001
“There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.”
― The Pickwick Papers
― The Pickwick Papers
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
― River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
― River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
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