Books for a Pandemic

1.
The Stand
The Stand 4.35 avg rating — 814,380 ratings
2.
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus 4.16 avg rating — 119,587 ratings
3.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 4.02 avg rating — 556,661 ratings
4.
The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 300,380 ratings
5.
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 267,317 ratings
6.
Station Eleven
Station Eleven 4.07 avg rating — 590,349 ratings
7.
Blindness
Blindness 4.18 avg rating — 324,719 ratings
8.
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 63,446 ratings
9.
I Am Legend and Other Stories
I Am Legend and Other Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 135,100 ratings
10.
Year of Wonders
Year of Wonders 4.01 avg rating — 171,894 ratings
11.
The Masque of the Red Death
The Masque of the Red Death 4.06 avg rating — 44,772 ratings
12.
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 3.98 avg rating — 42,021 ratings
13.
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281,958 ratings
14.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera 3.94 avg rating — 535,620 ratings
15.
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 4.04 avg rating — 445,069 ratings
16.
The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 42,708 ratings
17.
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings
18.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic 4.42 avg rating — 20,025 ratings
19.
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 130,994 ratings
20.
The Passage (The Passage, #1)
The Passage (The Passage, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 220,301 ratings
21.
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 240,833 ratings
22.
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden 4.16 avg rating — 1,263,176 ratings
23.
The Day of the Triffids
The Day of the Triffids 4.01 avg rating — 115,111 ratings
24.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,254 ratings
25.
Earth Abides
Earth Abides 3.95 avg rating — 33,030 ratings
26.
Ibil
Ibil 4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings
27.
Fever 1793
Fever 1793 3.93 avg rating — 131,296 ratings
28.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,237 ratings
29.
Death in Venice and Other Tales
Death in Venice and Other Tales 3.92 avg rating — 16,075 ratings
30.
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance 4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings
31.
A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year 3.56 avg rating — 11,578 ratings
32.
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales 4.17 avg rating — 74,601 ratings
33.
Angels in America
Angels in America 4.30 avg rating — 22,975 ratings
34.
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It 3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings
35.
Swan Song
Swan Song 4.30 avg rating — 73,992 ratings
36.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,637 ratings
37.
The Last Town on Earth
The Last Town on Earth 3.66 avg rating — 7,609 ratings
38.
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic 4.49 avg rating — 105 ratings
39.
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time 3.89 avg rating — 11,193 ratings
40.
The Demon in the Freezer
The Demon in the Freezer 4.15 avg rating — 17,727 ratings
41.
Outbreak (Dr. Marissa Blumenthal, #1)
Outbreak (Dr. Marissa Blumenthal, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 57,424 ratings
42.
The Cobra Event
The Cobra Event 4.03 avg rating — 16,372 ratings
43.
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 269,026 ratings
44.
I Am Legend
I Am Legend 4.05 avg rating — 147,545 ratings
45.
Company of Liars
Company of Liars 3.86 avg rating — 16,326 ratings
46.
The Scarlet Plague
The Scarlet Plague 3.75 avg rating — 13,571 ratings
47.
12 Monkeys
12 Monkeys 3.73 avg rating — 680 ratings
48.
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made 3.41 avg rating — 5,388 ratings
49.
The White Plague
The White Plague 3.69 avg rating — 6,800 ratings
50.
Severance
Severance
by: Ling Ma
3.89 avg rating — 122,971 ratings
51.
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating — 6,647 ratings
52.
The Pesthouse
The Pesthouse
by: Jim Crace
3.52 avg rating — 2,630 ratings
53.
The Last Man
The Last Man 3.38 avg rating — 6,561 ratings
54.
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus 3.72 avg rating — 11,395 ratings
55.
Anatomy of COVID Calamity
Anatomy of COVID Calamity 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
56.
The Dress Lodger
The Dress Lodger 3.56 avg rating — 8,048 ratings
57.
Plagues and Peoples
Plagues and Peoples 3.87 avg rating — 4,936 ratings
58.
MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 81,094 ratings
59.
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World 3.91 avg rating — 7,932 ratings
60.
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1)
Moloka'i (Moloka'i, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 138,230 ratings
61.
Mirage
Mirage 4.44 avg rating — 136 ratings
62.
Grass (Arbai, #1)
Grass (Arbai, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 13,135 ratings
63.
The Last One
The Last One 3.62 avg rating — 17,328 ratings
64.
Black Death
Black Death 3.71 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
65.
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum (Sign of the Sugared Plum, #1)
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum (Sign of the Sugared Plum, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 3,452 ratings
66.
The Brief History of the Dead
The Brief History of the Dead 3.67 avg rating — 12,561 ratings
66.
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them 4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings
68.
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,368 ratings
69.
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond 4.07 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
70.
The Years of Rice and Salt
The Years of Rice and Salt 3.76 avg rating — 15,184 ratings
71.
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox 4.02 avg rating — 1,536 ratings
72.
In The Devil's Own Words
In The Devil's Own Words 4.42 avg rating — 185 ratings
72.
The Memory of Animals
The Memory of Animals 3.58 avg rating — 5,240 ratings
74.
Unfit
Unfit 4.24 avg rating — 79 ratings
75.
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 3.83 avg rating — 4,661 ratings
76.
The Pull of the Stars
The Pull of the Stars 3.95 avg rating — 87,018 ratings
77.
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1)
Illuminae (The Illuminae Files, #1) 4.24 avg rating — 159,083 ratings
78.
The Dreamers
The Dreamers 3.63 avg rating — 42,689 ratings
79.
Lockdown 2020: 5 Minute Poems
Lockdown 2020: 5 Minute Poems 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
80.
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere, #1)
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 25,627 ratings
81.
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,519 ratings
82.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Pale Horse, Pale Rider 3.96 avg rating — 4,803 ratings
83.
Lock In (Lock In, #1)
Lock In (Lock In, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 70,465 ratings
84.
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned 4.08 avg rating — 118,309 ratings
85.
Agnes at the End of the World
Agnes at the End of the World 3.72 avg rating — 3,776 ratings
85.
The End of October
The End of October 3.75 avg rating — 19,672 ratings
87.
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 205,154 ratings
88.
A Thief of Time (Leaphorn & Chee, #8)
A Thief of Time (Leaphorn & Chee, #8) 4.13 avg rating — 15,023 ratings
89.
Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund 4.22 avg rating — 69,821 ratings
90.
The Dream of Scipio
The Dream of Scipio 3.76 avg rating — 4,459 ratings
91.
TWAS The Year 2020
TWAS The Year 2020 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
92.
In a Perfect World
In a Perfect World 3.38 avg rating — 2,737 ratings
93.
Gunfight at the Old Leake Canal
Gunfight at the Old Leake Canal
by: G.B. Hope
4.51 avg rating — 59 ratings
94.
The Pendulum has Swung too far
The Pendulum has Swung too far 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
95.
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic 4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings
96.
Running Out of Time (Out of Time #1)
Running Out of Time (Out of Time #1) 3.99 avg rating — 28,231 ratings
97.
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come 4.42 avg rating — 7,444 ratings
98.
Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History
Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History 3.98 avg rating — 1,774 ratings
99.
Forever Amber
Forever Amber really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19,447 ratings
99.
The Gate to Women's Country
The Gate to Women's Country 4.06 avg rating — 13,951 ratings
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