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Fever 1793 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,398 ratings — published 2000
I Am Legend and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.00 — 138,592 ratings — published 1954
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,605 ratings — published 2004
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.89 — 58,168 ratings — published 2006
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.16 — 126,230 ratings — published 1994
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.01 — 870,760 ratings — published 2000
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.06 — 656,094 ratings — published 2014
Plagues and Peoples (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,171 ratings — published 1976
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,469 ratings — published 2005
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.03 — 67,439 ratings — published 1992
The Strain (The Strain #1)
by (shelved 10 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.80 — 91,756 ratings — published 2009
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 9 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.35 — 869,918 ratings — published 1978
Year of Wonders (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.01 — 180,915 ratings — published 2001
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,263 ratings — published 2012
The Last Town on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.66 — 7,897 ratings — published 2006
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.02 — 337,847 ratings — published 1947
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,870 ratings — published 2006
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,886 ratings — published 2001
Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (Open Yale Courses)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,142 ratings — published 2019
Nemesis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.87 — 18,918 ratings — published 2010
A Journal of the Plague Year (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.55 — 12,305 ratings — published 1722
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.31 — 315,073 ratings — published 2025
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,679 ratings — published 2018
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,648 ratings — published 2017
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,925 ratings — published 2002
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.02 — 585,127 ratings — published 2006
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,707 ratings — published 1999
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.39 — 30,128 ratings — published 1987
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.19 — 369,199 ratings — published 1995
The Way We Fall (Fallen World #1)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.69 — 8,085 ratings — published 2012
Salvation City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.22 — 1,236 ratings — published 2010
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.91 — 278,200 ratings — published 1969
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.04 — 320,956 ratings — published 2022
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.32 — 44,012 ratings — published 2021
The Dreamers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.63 — 44,355 ratings — published 2019
Journals of the Plague Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.95 — 257 ratings — published 1990
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,189 ratings — published 2004
The Scourge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,894 ratings — published 2016
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,115 ratings — published 2015
Lock In (Lock In, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.92 — 74,035 ratings — published 2014
The Black Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,523 ratings — published 1969
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,816 ratings — published 1994
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.05 — 45,824 ratings — published 1978
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.04 — 162,771 ratings — published 1954
Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.70 — 7,457 ratings — published 2001
The Things That Keep Us Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,442 ratings — published 2010
Pox: An American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.69 — 881 ratings — published 2011
Rebellion 1776 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,752 ratings — published 2025
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as epidemics)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,477 ratings — published 2023
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as epidemics)
avg rating 4.53 — 156,097 ratings — published 2021
“The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas.”
― Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
― Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
“Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics; laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.”
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