Books for the time of Pandemics
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The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases : The Effort Theory of Evolution, Chronic Diseases and Extinction
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Paul Ola
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings 3. 
The Living Medicine: How a Lifesaving Cure Was Nearly Lost―and Why It Will Rescue Us When Antibiotics Fail
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Lina Zeldovich
4.41 avg rating — 159 ratings 4. 
The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
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Gleb Tsipursky
3.93 avg rating — 272 ratings 5. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings 6. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
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Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 7. 
The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
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Ali S. Khan
4.01 avg rating — 1,872 ratings 8. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,021 ratings 9. 
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
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Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings 9. 
Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare 4.30 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
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Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings 12. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,252 ratings 
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,647 ratings
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Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
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Jeremy Brown
3.98 avg rating — 1,774 ratings 16. 
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
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Maryn McKenna
3.94 avg rating — 2,148 ratings 17. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 18. 
Epidemic: Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak
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Reid Wilson
4.11 avg rating — 235 ratings 
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Spanish Influenza: The Story of the Epidemic That Swept America From the Newspaper Reports of 1918
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Ken Rossignol
3.44 avg rating — 55 ratings 22. 
Poetry in a time of Pestilence: Perspectives on a Pandemic
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Alex Morritt
4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 22. 
The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Joe Miller
4.24 avg rating — 864 ratings 22. 
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
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David Quammen
4.20 avg rating — 2,001 ratings 
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50 Things You Should Know About the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Neenyah Ostrom
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings 28. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,063 ratings 
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Hope from Lockdown: A Collection of Pictures and Stories During the COVID-19 Pandemic in New Zealand
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Abbie McKoy
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Chronic Fatigue Story: Medical Cover-Up of the Century
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Neenyah Ostrom
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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Laurie Garrett
4.13 avg rating — 1,345 ratings 37. 
The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics 4.15 avg rating — 279 ratings
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An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
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Matt Richtel
4.07 avg rating — 5,808 ratings 38. 
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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Hillary Johnson
4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings 38. 
Burning Out on the COVID Front Lines: A Doctor's Memoir of Fatherhood, Race and Perseverance in the Pandemic
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Dhaval R. Desai
4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings 41. 
Tell Me When It's Over: An Insider's Guide to Deciphering Covid Myths and Navigating Our Post-Pandemic World
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Paul A. Offit
4.29 avg rating — 205 ratings 42. 
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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John Kelly
3.89 avg rating — 11,193 ratings 42. 
Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
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Valerie Boyd
4.33 avg rating — 48 ratings 44. 
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
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Bill Wasik
3.72 avg rating — 11,395 ratings 
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The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind
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Joe Nocera
3.91 avg rating — 312 ratings 48. 
Confined Before COVID19: A Pandemic Anthology by LGBTQ Prisoners
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Casper Cendre
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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America's Biggest Cover-Up: 50 More Things Everyone Should Know About the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic And Its Link to AIDS
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Neenyah Ostrom
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 49. 
Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 70 ratings
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What Really Killed Gilda Radner?: Frontline Reports on the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
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Neenyah Ostrom
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 52. 
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
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Simon Schama
3.58 avg rating — 505 ratings 54. 
The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
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Mark Honigsbaum
3.88 avg rating — 1,336 ratings 
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,939 ratings 56. 
Pandora's Gamble: Lab Leaks, Pandemics, And A World At Risk
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Alison Young
3.80 avg rating — 127 ratings 
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Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found During the COVID-19 Pandemic 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1: Introduction and Death Counts and Estimates
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Alex Berenson
4.59 avg rating — 3,729 ratings 61. 
Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus
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David Quammen
4.18 avg rating — 1,994 ratings 61. 
Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
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Jamie K McCallum
4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America
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Rhae Lynn Barnes
4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings 63. 
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World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
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Sanjay Gupta
4.04 avg rating — 892 ratings 66. 
The Courage to Face Covid-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex
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John Leake
4.79 avg rating — 388 ratings 68. 
Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis
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John Nichols
3.63 avg rating — 114 ratings 
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Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic
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Scott Gottlieb
4.07 avg rating — 1,135 ratings 
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The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop
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Adam Kucharski
3.86 avg rating — 2,254 ratings 72. 
Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order
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Colin Kahl
3.89 avg rating — 272 ratings 74. 
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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Sonia Shah
4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings 75. 
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head: And Other True Stories of Infectious Disease
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Pamela Nagami
4.05 avg rating — 3,191 ratings 75. 
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
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Mark Honigsbaum
3.88 avg rating — 1,336 ratings 
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The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
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Richard D. Wolff
3.93 avg rating — 151 ratings 86. 
The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It 3.67 avg rating — 455 ratings
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Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
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Emma Goldberg
3.86 avg rating — 671 ratings 88. 
Plagued: Pandemics from the Black Death to Covid-19 and Beyond
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John Froude
3.94 avg rating — 125 ratings 89. 
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Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic
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Alice Quinn
3.79 avg rating — 398 ratings 91. 
American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
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Nancy K. Bristow
3.63 avg rating — 259 ratings 92. 
Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
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Peter J. Hotez
3.76 avg rating — 212 ratings 93. 
Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience
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Eli Saslow
4.56 avg rating — 522 ratings 94. 
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
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Jack Lowery
4.50 avg rating — 708 ratings 95. 
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings 98. 
Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion
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Richard Conniff
4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings 99. 
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When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
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Howard Markel
3.90 avg rating — 355 ratings