Here is a list of books about plague. Spend time isolated reading a good book! 🙂 You can read non-fiction, fiction based on true events, or fiction based on the present or future virus. You can read about zombies, viruses or even E.T. diseases with sci-fi elements. Whatever you fancy, here is a list for your reading pleasure! Happy reading, Book Nerds!
- “Fever 1793” by Laurie Halse Anderson (Yellow Fever)
- “Journal of Plague Years” by Norman Spinrad (HIV/AIDS)
- “A Journal of the Plague Year” by Daniel Defoe (bubonic plague)
- “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” by Katherine Anne Porter (Spanish Flu)
- “The Plague” by Albert Camus (Cholera 1849)
- “The Andromeda Strain” by Michael Crichton (ET microorganism)
- “The Stand” by Stephen King (virus)
- “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- “The Child Garden” by Geoff Ryman (futurist society with virus)
- “”Ammonite” by Nicola Griffith (Future epidemic)
- “Beauty Salon” by Mario Bellatin (only men die of disease)
- “Blindness” by Jose Saramago (everyone becomes blind)
- “The Years of Rice and Salt” by Kim Stanley Robinson (Bubonic plague)
- “Bird Box” by Josh Malerman (disease)
- “Oryx and Crake” by Margaret Atwood (Plague)
- “The Children’s Hospital” by Chris Adrian
- “The Transmigration of Bodies” by Yuri Herrera
- “Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandrel
- “Find me” by Laura Van Den Berg (erases memory)
- “Severance” by Ling Ma
- “The Book of M” by Pong Shepherd
- “The Old Drift” by Namwali Serpell (Zambia AIDS/HIV)
- “World War of Z” by Max Brooks
- “Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks
- “The Walking Dead” by Robert Kirkman
- “Cabin at the End of the World” by Paul G. Tremblay
- Y: The Last Man” by Brian K. Vaughan
- “Cold Storage” by David Koepp
- “The Champions” by Katie M. Flynn
- “The End of October” by Lawrence Wright
- “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allen Poe
- “The Passage” by Justin Cronin (Vampires)
- “Zone One” by Colson Whiteheard
- “The Last Man” by Mary Shelley
- “I am Legend” by Richard Matheson
- “Wilder Girls” by Rory Power
- “Cherry” by Nico Walker
- “Feed” by Sean McGuire
- “Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies” by Seth Grahame-Smith
- Earth Abides” by George R. Stewart