Pathogens and Disease
1. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 2. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,580 ratings 
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
by:
Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings 5. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 6. 
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
by:
Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings 7. 
The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
by:
Ali S. Khan
4.01 avg rating — 1,872 ratings 
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Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
by:
C.J. Peters
3.98 avg rating — 2,696 ratings 10. 
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
by:
Maryn McKenna
3.94 avg rating — 2,148 ratings 11. 
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,929 ratings 12. 
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
by:
Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating — 13,609 ratings 
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings 16. 
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
by:
John Kelly
3.89 avg rating — 11,192 ratings 
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Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory 3.76 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
by:
Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 
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Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare 4.30 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
by:
Ken Alibek
4.11 avg rating — 2,766 ratings 
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Essential Epidemiology: An Introduction for Students and Health Professionals
by:
Penny Webb
4.11 avg rating — 47 ratings 31. 
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
by:
Mark Pendergrast
3.70 avg rating — 497 ratings 
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Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
by:
Sonia Shah
4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings 
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,648 ratings
38. 
The Sick Rose: Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration
by:
Richard Barnett
4.42 avg rating — 1,002 ratings 
40. 
Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
by:
Richard Preston
3.75 avg rating — 5,026 ratings 
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The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It 4.03 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague
by:
Dorsey Armstrong
4.32 avg rating — 1,537 ratings 49. 
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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History
by:
Kyle Harper
4.19 avg rating — 645 ratings 55. 
The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis 3.82 avg rating — 807 ratings
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
by:
Jim Murphy
3.83 avg rating — 4,661 ratings 
58. 
The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All
by:
Elinor Levy
3.80 avg rating — 102 ratings 
60. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings 60. 
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
by:
Norman F. Cantor
3.41 avg rating — 5,388 ratings 
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
by:
Marilyn Chase
3.83 avg rating — 1,102 ratings 
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Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health
by:
Richard Rhodes
4.01 avg rating — 1,460 ratings 69. 
Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
by:
William Rosen
3.67 avg rating — 2,466 ratings 
72. 
Microbiology: The Laboratory Experience
by:
Steven Keating
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
by:
Martin J. Blaser
4.16 avg rating — 3,749 ratings 76. 
Disease: The extraordinary stories of history's deadliest killers
by:
Mary Dobson
4.13 avg rating — 449 ratings 
78. 
Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism
by:
Marion Nestle
3.89 avg rating — 272 ratings 79. 
The New Plagues: Pandemics and Poverty in a Globalized World
by:
Stefan Kaufmann
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 79. 
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The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
by:
Meredith Wadman
3.96 avg rating — 1,031 ratings 
85. 
The Health of Nations: The Campaign to End Polio and Eradicate Epidemic Diseases
by:
Karen Bartlett
3.88 avg rating — 52 ratings 
88. 
Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry
by:
Peter McCandless
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 89. 
Viruses Vs. Superbugs: A Solution to the Antibiotics Crisis?
by:
T. HÄUSLER
4.10 avg rating — 49 ratings 
91. 
Cholera, Chloroform and the Science of Medicine: A Life of John Snow 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
by:
Jimmy Carter
3.78 avg rating — 343 ratings 93. 
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The Antibiotic Paradox: How the Misuse of Antibiotics Destroys Their Curative Powers
by:
Stuart B. Levy
3.80 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
by:
Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,393 ratings 