The Greatest Books of All Time on Disease

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
121 Bleak House Charles Dickens 1852 British English
166 Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez 1985 Colombian Spanish
274 The Stand Stephen King 1978 American English
1384 Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond 1997 American English
1760 Desperate Characters Paula Fox 1970 American English
2015 A Journal Of The Plague Year Daniel Defoe 1722 British English
2086 The Sheep Look Up John Brunner 1972 British English
2181 Blue of Noon Georges Bataille 1957 French French
2263 The Crystal World J. G. Ballard 1966 British English
3396 Cities of the Red Night William S. Burroughs 1981 American English
4679 Of Love And Other Demons Gabriel García Márquez 1994 Colombian Spanish
5264 The Great Influenza John Barry 2004 American English
5531 The White Disease Karel Čapek 1937 Czech Czech
6482 Year Of Wonders Geraldine Brooks 2001 Australian English
6654 Beauty Salon Mario Bellatin 1994 Mexican Spanish
6657 Organon Of The Rational Art Of Healing Samuel Hahnemann 1989 German German
6896 Doomsday Book Connie Willis 1992 American English
7024 Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers Robert Sapolsky 1994 American English
7143 Black Hole Charles Burns 1995 American English
7216 The Scarlet Plague Jack London 1912 American English
7943 The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever Stephen R. Donaldson 1977 American English
9047 Death as a Side Effect Ana María Shua 1997 Argentinian Spanish
9976 Legend Marie Lu 2011 American English
11844 The Fate Of Rome Kyle Harper 2017 American English
12251 Needles Andie Dominick 1998 American English
13533 The Path Between The Seas David McCullough 1977 American English
13600 Rabevel Ou Le Mal Des Ardents Lucien Fabre French French
14011 Dirt And Disease Naomi Rogers 1992 American English
14435 The Making Of A Tropical Disease Randall M. Packard 2007 American English
14520 The Fever Sonia Shah 2010 American English
14680 Epic Measures Jeremy N. Smith 2015 American English
14815 Old Yeller Fred Gipson 1956 American English
14834 Nine Pints Rose George 2018 British English
14985 Chasm City Alastair Reynolds 2001 British English
15567 The Mosquito Timothy C. Winegard 2019 Canadian English
17162 The Child Garden Geoff Ryman 1989 British English
17162 Xenocide Orson Scott Card 1991 American English
17162 Living With Risk the British Medical Association Board of Science 2003 British English
17162 Plague's Progress Arno Karlen 1995 American English
17162 Plagues And People William H. McNeill 1976 American English
17162 The Medical Detectives Berton Roueché 1980 American English
17162 Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2000 American English
17162 The Epidemic Hani al-Raheb 1981 Syrian Unknown
17162 The Ghost Map Steven Johnson 2006 American English
17162 Hocus Pocus Kurt Vonnegut 1990 American English
17162 In The Wake Of The Plague Norman F. Cantor 2001 American English
16955 The Masque Of The Red Death Edgar Allan Poe 1842 American English
17162 Hansen’s Children Ognjen Spahić 2004 Montenegrin Montenegrin
17162 Molokai O.A. Bushnell 1960 Unknown English
17162 Foreign Bodies Simon Schama 2023 British English
17162 The Plague Jacqueline Rose 2023 Unknown Unknown
17162 The Living Death Stefan Wul French French
17162 Strange Practice Vivian Shaw 2017 American English