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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating β 20,026 ratings 
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemicβand How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating β 55,259 ratings 4. 
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
by:
Jennifer Wright
4.23 avg rating β 13,612 ratings 5. 
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.20 avg rating β 5,906 ratings 6. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating β 10,688 ratings 7. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating β 42,022 ratings 8. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating β 28,863 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 β 7,614 ratings 12. 
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating β 119,597 ratings 13. 
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918
by:
Alfred W. Crosby
3.87 avg rating β 615 ratings 
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American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
by:
Nancy K. Bristow
3.63 avg rating β 259 ratings 16. 
Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19: What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today
by:
Kari Nixon
3.86 avg rating β 167 ratings 
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The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
by:
Ali S. Khan
4.01 avg rating β 1,872 ratings 
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Watch out for Toxo!: The Secret Guide to Practical Science
by:
Jaroslav Flegr
4.07 avg rating β 30 ratings 19. 
Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare 4.30 avg rating β 91 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating β 7,932 ratings 19. 
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live 4.01 avg rating β 2,789 ratings
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Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
by:
Martin J. Blaser
4.16 avg rating β 3,749 ratings 25. 
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
by:
Hillary Johnson
4.16 avg rating β 118 ratings 
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The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure
by:
Dan Werb
4.27 avg rating β 124 ratings 30. 
The Secret Life of Germs: What They Are, Why We Need Them, and How We Can Protect Ourselves Against Them 3.84 avg rating β 264 ratings
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Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases
by:
Paul A. Offit
4.30 avg rating β 2,129 ratings 
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The First Shots: The Epic Rivalries and Heroic Science Behind the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine
by:
Brendan Borrell
3.97 avg rating β 276 ratings 
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History 3.91 avg rating β 6,647 ratings
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Pox: Genius, Madness, And The Mysteries Of Syphilis
by:
Deborah Hayden
3.76 avg rating β 440 ratings 40. 
Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of Battling Hot Viruses Around the World
by:
C.J. Peters
3.98 avg rating β 2,696 ratings 40. 
The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease
by:
John Rhodes
3.66 avg rating β 65 ratings 40. 
The Panic Virus: Fear, Myth and the Vaccination Debate
by:
Seth Mnookin
4.07 avg rating β 5,764 ratings 43. 
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
by:
Lynn Margulis
4.22 avg rating β 888 ratings 43. 
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
by:
John Kelly
3.89 avg rating β 11,193 ratings 43. 
Sentinel for Health: A History of the Centers for Disease Control 4.20 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers
by:
John J. Ross
3.76 avg rating β 435 ratings 
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The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
by:
Robert D. Morris
3.87 avg rating β 315 ratings 
54. 
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
by:
Jimmy Carter
3.78 avg rating β 343 ratings 
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Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry
by:
Peter McCandless
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings 57. 
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
by:
Sonia Shah
3.90 avg rating β 1,490 ratings 57. 
Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts
by:
Bhikkhu AnΔlayo
4.51 avg rating β 53 ratings 59. 
The Devil's Flu: The World's Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It
by:
Pete Davies
3.60 avg rating β 103 ratings 59. 
The Germ Handbook: Protect your family from infectious diseases really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life
by:
James Daschuk
4.30 avg rating β 1,054 ratings 62. 
The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease
by:
Daisy HernΓ‘ndez
3.98 avg rating β 1,714 ratings 63. 
An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives
by:
Matt Richtel
4.07 avg rating β 5,809 ratings 64. 
Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive
by:
Philipp Dettmer
4.59 avg rating β 12,177 ratings 65. 
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
by:
Meghan O'Rourke
4.03 avg rating β 6,743 ratings 66. 
Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health
by:
Leana Wen
4.24 avg rating β 945 ratings 
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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
by:
Maryn McKenna
3.94 avg rating β 2,148 ratings 69. 
Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
by:
Mark Pendergrast
3.70 avg rating β 497 ratings 70. 
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.13 avg rating β 1,345 ratings 
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Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health 3.76 avg rating β 93 ratings
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Fever Season: The Story of a Terrifying Epidemic and the People Who Saved a City
by:
Jeanette Keith
3.73 avg rating β 214 ratings 
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The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics
by:
Stephen Coss
3.73 avg rating β 782 ratings 76. 
Modern Epidemics: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19
by:
Salvador Macip
3.83 avg rating β 72 ratings 77. 
When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed
by:
Howard Markel
3.90 avg rating β 355 ratings 78. 
Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America
by:
Polly J. Price
3.90 avg rating β 63 ratings 79. 
Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience
by:
Eli Saslow
4.56 avg rating β 522 ratings 80. 
Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science
by:
Peter J. Hotez
3.76 avg rating β 212 ratings 81. 
Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic
by:
Alice Quinn
3.79 avg rating β 398 ratings 82. 
Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
by:
Emma Goldberg
3.86 avg rating β 671 ratings 83. 
The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
by:
Richard D. Wolff
3.93 avg rating β 151 ratings 
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating β 20,026 ratings 86. 
Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
by:
Sonia Shah
4.07 avg rating β 4,009 ratings 87. 
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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
by:
Mark Honigsbaum
3.88 avg rating β 1,336 ratings 89. 
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 β 7,614 ratings