351 books
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158 voters
Epidemic Books
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Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.93 — 132,747 ratings — published 2000
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.01 — 174,814 ratings — published 2001
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.18 — 335,838 ratings — published 1995
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,166 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 26 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,087 ratings — published 2006
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.02 — 312,597 ratings — published 1947
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.07 — 608,965 ratings — published 2014
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.91 — 270,860 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 — 42,497 ratings — published 2004
The Pull of the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,831 ratings — published 2020
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.02 — 565,333 ratings — published 2006
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.35 — 831,418 ratings — published 1978
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.03 — 64,593 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 3.92 — 8,113 ratings — published 2017
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,397 ratings — published 2012
Feed (Newsflesh, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.85 — 61,423 ratings — published 2010
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,035 ratings — published 2002
A Prayer for the Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,428 ratings — published 1999
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.05 — 293,808 ratings — published 2022
The Fall (The Strain #2)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.83 — 40,477 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 — 4,717 ratings — published 2003
The Way We Fall (Fallen World #1)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.69 — 8,061 ratings — published 2012
The Painted Veil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,524 ratings — published 1925
The Dreamers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.63 — 43,166 ratings — published 2019
As Bright as Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.11 — 41,280 ratings — published 2018
The Program (The Program, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.04 — 61,077 ratings — published 2013
Company of Liars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,636 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 — 6,717 ratings — published 2006
I Am Legend and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.00 — 136,199 ratings — published 1954
Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.06 — 95,724 ratings — published 2017
The Last Town on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,696 ratings — published 2006
In the Shadow of Blackbirds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.85 — 13,434 ratings — published 2013
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,665 ratings — published 2009
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.00 — 286,470 ratings — published 2003
Rebellion 1776 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,649 ratings — published 2025
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,021 ratings — published 2023
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.45 — 99,791 ratings — published 2019
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.88 — 129,769 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 — 1,795 ratings — published 2018
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,045 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 — 244,365 ratings — published 2014
Nemesis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,142 ratings — published 2010
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.83 — 124,493 ratings — published 2014
The Living (The Living, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,266 ratings — published 2013
Deadline (Newsflesh, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.10 — 27,407 ratings — published 2011
Partials (Partials Sequence, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.93 — 59,947 ratings — published 2012
Wickett's Remedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.26 — 2,124 ratings — published 2005
The Cobra Event (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.03 — 16,534 ratings — published 1991
The Strain (The Strain #1)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemic)
avg rating 3.80 — 90,194 ratings — published 2009
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as epidemic)
avg rating 4.37 — 172,206 ratings — published 2025
“The disease moves within human suffering”
― Belly Woman
― Belly Woman
“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












