249 books
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62 voters
Epidemic Books
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Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,262 ratings — published 2000
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.01 — 178,631 ratings — published 2001
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.16 — 124,256 ratings — published 1994
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.18 — 351,796 ratings — published 1995
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,272 ratings — published 2006
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.02 — 326,476 ratings — published 1947
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.06 — 637,258 ratings — published 2014
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.91 — 275,328 ratings — published 1969
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,162 ratings — published 2004
The Pull of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.95 — 91,104 ratings — published 2020
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.02 — 576,635 ratings — published 2006
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.35 — 854,597 ratings — published 1978
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.03 — 66,258 ratings — published 1992
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.91 — 8,276 ratings — published 2017
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,947 ratings — published 2012
Feed (Newsflesh, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.85 — 62,019 ratings — published 2010
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,562 ratings — published 2002
A Prayer for the Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,624 ratings — published 1999
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.05 — 309,771 ratings — published 2022
The Fall (The Strain #2)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.83 — 40,894 ratings — published 2010
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,790 ratings — published 2003
The Way We Fall (Fallen World #1)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.69 — 8,076 ratings — published 2012
The Painted Veil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.98 — 53,062 ratings — published 1925
The Dreamers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.63 — 43,902 ratings — published 2019
As Bright as Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.12 — 42,710 ratings — published 2018
Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.06 — 97,516 ratings — published 2017
The Program (The Program, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.04 — 61,991 ratings — published 2013
Company of Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,097 ratings — published 2008
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,804 ratings — published 2006
I Am Legend and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.00 — 137,574 ratings — published 1954
The Last Town on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,836 ratings — published 2006
In the Shadow of Blackbirds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.85 — 13,530 ratings — published 2013
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.07 — 135,020 ratings — published 2009
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.00 — 292,916 ratings — published 2003
Rebellion 1776 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,191 ratings — published 2025
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.94 — 12,580 ratings — published 2023
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.42 — 8,295 ratings — published 2019
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.45 — 102,290 ratings — published 2019
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.87 — 137,663 ratings — published 2018
Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,830 ratings — published 2018
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,086 ratings — published 2015
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.95 — 248,879 ratings — published 2014
Nemesis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,592 ratings — published 2010
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.82 — 135,650 ratings — published 2014
The Living (The Living, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,294 ratings — published 2013
Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.10 — 27,703 ratings — published 2011
Partials (Partials Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.93 — 60,306 ratings — published 2012
Wickett's Remedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.26 — 2,128 ratings — published 2005
The Cobra Event (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.02 — 16,789 ratings — published 1991
The Strain (The Strain #1)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.80 — 91,045 ratings — published 2009
“The bathhouses weren’t open because the owners didn’t understand they were spreading death. They understood that. The bathhouses were open because they were still making money.”
― And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
― And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
“in the run-up to South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, Nelson Mandela was reportedly advised not to make AIDS into a campaign issue for fear of offending culturally conservative constituencies. ‘I wanted to win,’ said Mandela, ‘and I did not talk about AIDS.”
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet
― AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet












