Fiction books on pandemics please? I just finished the Extinction Files books. ?
Fiction books on pandemics please? I just finished the Extinction Files books. ?
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Fiction books on pandemics please? I just finished the Extinction Files books. ?
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Thanks!
Seconded! Easily one of the best books Iāve read in the past few years, hands down.
Loved Station Eleven. Great book and a very different view of a pandemic.
Agree
Blindness by Saramago
Mits Grant has 2 great series
The Passage trilogy
Andromeda Strain.
A Historical Novel “The Years of Wonder” by Geraldine Brooks is a great read – in my opinion.
Oh I loved the Years of Wonder! I read it when I was sure I was going to die of mono one summer. Seemed fitting lol
@Sarah Hope you recovered well from that rotten infection – ghastly. A great book. Geraldine Brooks’s research is very thorough. Have you read any of her other works? http://geraldinebrooks.com/
Excellent recommendation
@Carol Thanks. I get a bit picky at times – ha ha.
One of my favorite authors. One of my favorite books.
@Helen I have read Calebās Crossing and hope to read her other books
The Jakarta Pandemic and The Second After. The latter is about an EMP bomb going and basically having to survive off the grid, but itās really good!
The Cobra Event by Richard Preston.
I downloaded this, thanks!
The Hot Zone is non-fiction, but it reads like a novel.
And Pandemic by A.G. Riddle, Bird Box, The Dog Stars (literary fiction).
Thanks everyone! ?
Fever 1793. Great read for adults too
The fifth wave
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks https://www.amazon.com/Year-Wonders-Plague-Geraldine-Brooks/dp/0142001430
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife. A virus kills off more 90% of the world but it affects women more than men.
This was a really good book but very hard to *take*. Very raw.
Absolutely loved
This showed up in LitFlash today as being on sale for $1.99: https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Tales-Ann-Benson-ebook/dp/B004G60FZE/ref=sr_1_1?tag=randohouseinc449-20
World Without End-Ken Folett. Bubonic plague
Ooh Station Eleven! Also Hot Zone, old but really good.
The Hot Zone is one of my all-time favorite books!
The Hot Zone is non-fiction though.
Yes! The Hot Zone by Richard Preston! True story and will scare you to death! Chronicles the horrifying Marburg virus.
As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner, The things that Keep us Here by Carla Buckley
The Things that Keep Us Here by Carla Buckley.
I loved this book!
I was going to say this one. Itās a great book.
World War Z
Love the 5th wave!
Station Eleven and World War Z!
Station Eleven is so good — literary, not just a thriller.
The Stand by Stephen King
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
The Survivors: Pandemic by Alex Burns Not the greatest piece of literature, but was a really fun 1 day quick read that had me hooked. And its free on Kindle Unlimited
The Stand, by Stephen King.
I read that one. So good!
Well i’ve found my reading list for the rest of the year. š
If you’re looking for a sort of survivalist/apocalyptic/ pandemic novel, I highly recommend Jakarta Pandemic. I read a lot of Zombie / Post Apocalyptic books and it’s one of my fave. I really like A.G. Riddle as well. J.L. Bourne has good zombie series called Day by Day if you’re into that genre. Also highly recommend trying One Second After!
I hope you put Year of Wonders on it – itās so beautifully written. Highly recommend it.
Me too!
The Last Town on Earth, by Thomas Mullen. A small town in the Pacific Northwest quarantines itself against the 1918 pandemic. But there are terrible prices to be paid….
Ooh, just sent myself a sample š
You might like Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks.
The Andromeda Strain, by Crichton
I snuck in the family room and watch the movie when my parents didn’t know I was there (I was about 9 or 10). Scared the pants off me. I watched it again as an adult and I didn’t think it was scary at all. I should read the book-thanks for the suggestion!
Oryx and Crake is a trilogy by Margaret Atwood. There is a pandemic in the first book. These books are scary, but brilliant!
Love that trilogy. Cried when I finished it.
Yes! The Madd Addam trilogy.
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Station Eleven
The passage
Can’t remember author…
Justin Cronin š
Was just gonna say that š had to Google. It’s a GREAT series tho
@Carin I haven’t read the whole series! I read The Passage right after the Stand (best plague book of all time) so I didn’t give it its due :). I’ve been meaning to pick them up again.
The Plauge by Albert Camus. I need my bookshelf in front of me to give more recs (I have at least ten that I can’t think of off the top of my head), but it’s in storage until August!
Oooooo Camus is an oldie but a goodie ?
The Stand by Stephen King
A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier. One of my favorite all time reads of any genre.
The Last Tribe by Brad Manuel.
EMP, not pandemic, but good
One Second After https://www.amazon.com/dp/0765356864/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_XXpsBbCJ14FFK
Excellent book!
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon and A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Aren’t pandemic related but, post-apocalyptic nuclear war.
Connie Willis, the Doomsday Book
Good one!
As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner is excellent, about the 1918 flu epidemic.
Loved that book!
Blindness by JosƩ Saramago
Loved this one
This author won the Nobel Prize for literature in part because of this novel. My husband and I read it together, and unfortunately we did not enjoy it. I guess it’s not for everyone.
Station 11; The Dog Stars
Station Eleven definitely
The girl with all the gifts- Carey
Madd Addam trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Also Geraldine Brooks wrote a great book about a town reacting to plague – I think it was Year of Wonders?
Station Eleven!
Yes!!
The Stand by Stephen King
Parasite by Mira Grant
The HotZone
Hot zone by Richard preston
Unfortunately, The Hot Zone is true which makes it even more scary!
The Girl with all the Gifts
I just copied all of these to my TBR list
Same!
Good Morning, Midnight is a good one
Earth Abides by George Stewart. A real classic!
Alas, Babylon – a classic but still a good read
It really is! I need to reread
It is excellent- I live in St Augustine, so it is based nearby
I live near tallahassee!
We are moving our son there August 20.
A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier. I read this over 10 years ago and I think about it often. There are a couple of sections that are as real to me as if Iād read it yesterday. Not only a book about a pandemic but a fascinating allegory on the afterlife. Unique.
The Dress Lodger about a cholera epidemic in London and the theft of bodies for medical students
The Fireman by Joe Hill enraptured me!!
Following
The White Plague? By Frank Herbert?
The Madd Addam trilogy by Margaret Atwood is excellent, as is Station Eleven.
The Last Policeman by Ben H Winters is a good end of the world trilogy series
The Stand by Stephen King
Unfortunately most of these are post apocalyptic stories. After the fact plagues, like THE ROAD, ORYX AND CRAKE, WORLD WAR Z, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS , THE PASSAGE TRILOGY. I believe some, ALAS BABYLON and THE ROAD and others are about other calamities causing the end of life as we know it. But these ARE all great books, no doubt. I did really love THE LAST TOWN ON EARTH, a novel about the 1918 flu pandemic and how a town tried to isolate itself. Excellent study of human nature in times of travail.
Oh God, I forgot about The Girl with All the Gifts. That was amazing too!
The pandemic aspect is a plus for me so loved all the reccos!
The Stand
Just found a new to me series at my goodwill. The Silo triology by Hugh Howey