Books about plagues & pandemics

Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

Michael Osterholm,Mark Olshaker

A World-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for epidemics that can challenge world order.

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On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus

David Waltner-Towes

Written by a leading epidemiologist, this engrossing book answers our questions about animal diseases that jump to humans - called zoonoses - including why they have become more common in…

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The End of Epidemics

Jonathan D. Quick,Bronwyn Fryer

It’s the dystopian nightmare pandemic experts have warned about. But it’s happening right now.

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How to Survive a Pandemic

Michael Greger

A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Die.

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The Pandemic Century

Mark Honigsbaum

The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19.

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Virusphere

Frank Ryan

A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses - from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history.

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Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love in the Time of Cholera is a brilliantly crafted, beautifully written story of love and the love-sick.

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Severance

Ling Ma

Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny…

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Influenza

Jeremy Brown

Dr Jeremy Brown, America’s highest medical authority on emergency care research, offers Australians some enlightening, entertaining and unnerving advice on the flu.

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The Great Believers

Rebecca Makkai

The Carnegie Medal-winning novel of hope and heartbreak amidst the AIDs crisis, for fans of A Little Life and The Lacuna.

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A Journal of the Plague Year

Daniel Defoe

This work follows Daniel Defoe’s fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets of London. Here we see a city transformed - some of…

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The Road to Winter

Mark Smith

Mark Smith’s The Road to Winter tells a thrilling, primal, twenty-first century story of courage and survival in the Australian wilderness.

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The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood

An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world.

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Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘March’ and ‘People of the Book’. A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when…

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Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel

What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have…

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The Animals in That Country

Laura Jean McKay

Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks.

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The Plague

Albert Camus

Presents a book translated by Stuart Gilbert.

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Books about plagues & pandemics

Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus

The End of Epidemics

How to Survive a Pandemic

The Pandemic Century

Virusphere

Love in the Time of Cholera

Severance

Influenza

The Great Believers

A Journal of the Plague Year

The Road to Winter

The Year of the Flood

Year of Wonders

Station Eleven

The Road

The Animals in That Country

The Plague