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Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,182 ratings — published 2000
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.01 — 180,470 ratings — published 2001
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.16 — 125,886 ratings — published 1994
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.19 — 367,024 ratings — published 1995
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,994 ratings — published 2006
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.02 — 335,706 ratings — published 1947
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.06 — 652,550 ratings — published 2014
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.91 — 277,716 ratings — published 1969
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,510 ratings — published 2004
The Pull of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.95 — 92,291 ratings — published 2020
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,234 ratings — published 1992
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.02 — 583,278 ratings — published
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.35 — 866,694 ratings — published 1978
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.92 — 8,350 ratings — published 2017
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,849 ratings — published 2002
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,231 ratings — published 2012
Feed (Newsflesh, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.85 — 62,368 ratings — published 2010
A Prayer for the Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,699 ratings — published 1999
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.04 — 318,735 ratings — published 2022
The Fall (The Strain #2)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.83 — 41,146 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 — 4,827 ratings — published 2003
The Way We Fall (Fallen World #1)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.69 — 8,079 ratings — published 2012
The Painted Veil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.98 — 53,989 ratings — published 1925
The Dreamers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.63 — 44,269 ratings — published 2019
As Bright as Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.12 — 43,352 ratings — published 2018
Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.06 — 98,365 ratings — published 2017
The Program (The Program, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.04 — 62,428 ratings — published 2013
Company of Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.87 — 17,359 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 — 6,855 ratings — published 2006
I Am Legend and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.00 — 138,363 ratings — published 1954
The Last Town on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,881 ratings — published 2006
In the Shadow of Blackbirds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.85 — 13,569 ratings — published 2013
The Strain (The Strain #1)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.80 — 91,576 ratings — published 2009
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.07 — 136,312 ratings — published 2009
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.00 — 296,145 ratings — published 2003
Biological War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,232 ratings — published 2026
Rebellion 1776 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,688 ratings — published 2025
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.31 — 307,761 ratings — published 2025
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,310 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 4.43 — 8,612 ratings — published 2019
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.44 — 103,673 ratings — published 2019
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.87 — 141,750 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 — 1,842 ratings — published 2018
The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.22 — 63,257 ratings — published 2016
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,109 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 — 251,299 ratings — published 2014
Nemesis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,867 ratings — published 2010
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.82 — 144,299 ratings — published 2014
The Living (The Living, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,312 ratings — published 2013
Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.10 — 27,853 ratings — published 2011
“Our bodies are a collection of adaptations, evolutionary legacies that have helped us survive and reproduce in the face of uncertainty and risk. That does not mean that adaptations are perfect; far from it.”
― The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
― The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic
“The concept of an imported epidemic laying wast to vulnerable native inhabitants works just as well applied to the British, and other colonial nations, as it does to fungal spores.”
― The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History
― The Triumph of the Fungi: A Rotten History
