15 must-read science books like The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright

Cover of The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright

The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

By: Lawrence Wright

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, whose best-selling thriller The End of…

If you liked the science plot in The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus by Matt Taibbi, Victor Juhasz

1. Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus

By: Matt Taibbi , Victor Juhasz

3.44

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER - Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take … read more

Similar categories in Matt Taibbi's Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

By: Emily Monosson

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more

Similar categories in Emily Monosson's Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

3. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

Similar categories in Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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4. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

By: Michael Lewis

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the … read more

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's The Premonition: A Pandemic Story book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

5. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey by Peter R. Breggin

6. COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey

By: Peter R. Breggin

4.40

Format: 1013 pages, Kindle Edition

COVID-19 and the Global Predators is much more than an analysis of the current exploitation of huma… read more

Similar categories in Peter R. Breggin's COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin

7. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Toobin's Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright

8. The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

By: Lawrence Wright

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, whose best-selling thriller The End of… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • audiobook
  • american history
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • historical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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9. Big Time

By: Ben H. Winters

3.43

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Ben Winters, whom critics attest  "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's Big Time book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • audiobook
Cover of The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell

10. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

By: Jeff Goodell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the gl… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen

11. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

By: David Quammen

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to deciphe… read more

Similar categories in David Quammen's Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
"The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer …"

-David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

Cover of King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy by Michael  Dobbs

12. King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy

By: Michael Dobbs

4.25

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic la… read more

Similar categories in Michael Dobbs's King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response by Andy Slavitt

13. Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response

By: Andy Slavitt

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

* NATIONAL BESTSELLER * “Painfully good. The book could have been called, ‘Outrageous.’ The story … read more

Similar categories in Andy Slavitt's Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
"You can fix a lot of things, but you can't un-die people."

-Andy Slavitt, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response

Cover of Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System by Ryan J. Reilly

14. Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System

By: Ryan J. Reilly

3.95

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

The January 6th attack is an unprecedented crime in American history. Sprawling and openly politica… read more

Similar categories in Ryan J. Reilly's Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic by Scott Gottlieb

15. Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic

By: Scott Gottlieb

4.08

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

Physician and former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb asks: Has America’s COVID-19 catastrophe taugh… read more

Similar categories in Scott Gottlieb's Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine by Nicola Twilley

16. Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

By: Nicola Twilley

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley trace the history and the future of quarantine methods and tactics… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Twilley's Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • historical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic by Joe Miller

17. The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Joe Miller

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic story of the married scientists who founded BioNTech and developed the first vaccine a… read more

Similar categories in Joe Miller's The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Dünya Sağlık Örgütü'nün koronavirüs salgınını pandemi ilan etmesine altı hafa, Donald Trump'ın Beyaz Saray'ının ''Son Hız Operasyonu'' aşı geliştirme programını başlatmasına dört ay vardı. Henüz Çin …"

-Joe Miller, The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cover of The Courage to Face Covid-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex by John Leake

18. The Courage to Face Covid-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex

By: John Leake

4.81

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of doctors who developed a safe and effective early treatment for COVID-19 and their batt… read more

Similar categories in John Leake's The Courage to Face Covid-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live by Nicholas A. Christakis

19. Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

By: Nicholas A. Christakis

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A piercing and scientifically grounded look at the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic and how it… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas A. Christakis's Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
"We know from subsequent leaks that the president was indeed presented with information about the seriousness of the virus and its pandemic potential beginning at least in early January 2020. And yet,…"

-Nicholas A. Christakis, Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

Cover of Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report by Covid Crisis Group

20. Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report

By: Covid Crisis Group

3.99

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

This powerful report on what went wrong—and right—with America’s Covid response, from a team of 34 … read more

Similar categories in Covid Crisis Group's Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nicked by M.T. Anderson

21. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

  • historical

18 must-read audiobook books like The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright

Transform Your Habits

Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus

Matt Taibbi , Victor Juhasz

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Emily Monosson

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Michael Lewis

4.34

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25 must-read audiobook books like Lessons from the Covid War: An Investigative Report by Covid Crisis Group

Transform Your Habits

Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction

Tony Hope

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

4.60

Transform Your Habits

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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