This Week in Virology/ Parasitism Bookshelf
1. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,597 ratings 2. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 3. 
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 4. 
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 5. 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating — 213,239 ratings
6. 
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.20 avg rating — 5,906 ratings 7. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,022 ratings 8. 
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 9. 
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.30 avg rating — 2,129 ratings 
12. 
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
by:
Mark Pendergrast
3.70 avg rating — 497 ratings 13. 
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by:
Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,202 ratings 
16. 
Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-up and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo
by:
John Crewdson
4.38 avg rating — 39 ratings 19. 
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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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,098 ratings 23. 
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
by:
Edward R. Tufte
4.29 avg rating — 3,089 ratings 24. 
26. 
Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth
by:
Lynn Margulis
4.23 avg rating — 73 ratings 
28. 
New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People 4.11 avg rating — 409 ratings
29. 
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
by:
D.A. Henderson
4.10 avg rating — 364 ratings 30. 
Never Cry Wolf: Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
by:
Farley Mowat
4.21 avg rating — 25,556 ratings 31. 
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
by:
Graham Farmelo
4.01 avg rating — 7,385 ratings 
35. 
The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher
by:
Lewis Thomas
4.08 avg rating — 1,854 ratings 37. 
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society 3.98 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
37. 
The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It 4.03 avg rating — 335 ratings
37. 
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
by:
Annalee Newitz
3.78 avg rating — 7,116 ratings 40. 
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
by:
Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,940 ratings 42. 
Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.18 avg rating — 1,384 ratings 42. 
47. 
The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.25 avg rating — 423 ratings 
48. 
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
by:
Carl Sagan
4.29 avg rating — 78,424 ratings 
51. 
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
by:
Robert D. Morris
3.87 avg rating — 315 ratings 52. 
The Life of a Virus: Tobacco Mosaic Virus as an Experimental Model, 1930-1965 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
55. 
Listen to the Music: The Life of Hilary Koprowski
by:
Roger Vaughn
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 56. 
A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman's Immortal Legacy-And the Medical Scandal It Caused
by:
Michael Gold
4.03 avg rating — 35 ratings 
60. 
The World's Water 2008-2009: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
by:
Peter H. Gleick
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 61. 
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by:
Atul Gawande
4.28 avg rating — 51,632 ratings 62. 
Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are
by:
Marlene Zuk
3.73 avg rating — 210 ratings 
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A Genetic Switch, Third Edition: Phage Lambda Revisited
by:
Mark Ptashne
4.40 avg rating — 78 ratings 
71. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,034 ratings 
76. 
Powers of Ten (Scientific American Library Series #1)
by:
Philip Morrison
4.33 avg rating — 251 ratings 
79. 
Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell
by:
Natalie Angier
4.31 avg rating — 190 ratings 
81. 
Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys
by:
Rob Dunn
4.05 avg rating — 293 ratings 82. 
Invisible Frontiers: The Race to Synthesize a Human Gene
by:
Stephen S. Hall
3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings 83. 
The Way We Work: Getting to Know the Amazing Human Body
by:
David Macaulay
4.25 avg rating — 476 ratings 
87. 
The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat: The Story of the Penicillin Miracle
by:
Eric Lax
3.98 avg rating — 507 ratings 88. 
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
by:
Wendy Moore
4.07 avg rating — 4,148 ratings 89. 
Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
by:
Arthur Allen
3.81 avg rating — 289 ratings 
93. 
The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected
by:
Jonathan R. Cole
3.82 avg rating — 60 ratings 94. 
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
by:
David McCullough
4.25 avg rating — 18,115 ratings 95. 
Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore's Life in Science
by:
Shane Crotty
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 42 ratings 
98. 
At the Bench: A Laboratory Navigator, Updated Edition
by:
Kathy Barker
4.19 avg rating — 114 ratings 99. 
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
by:
Seth Mnookin
4.07 avg rating — 5,764 ratings 