10 Top science books like The World’s Deadliest Plagues: The History and Legacy of the Worst Global Pandemics by Charles River Editors

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The World’s Deadliest Plagues: The History and Legacy of the Worst Global Pandemics

By: Charles River Editors

3.86

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further…

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1. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC

By: Leslie Alan Horvitz , Joseph B. McCormick , Susan Fisher-Hoch

3.99

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC, is a memoir by America's most famous virus researchers. "Level 4… read more

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  • history
  • science
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2. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

By: David Quammen

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New Y… read more

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  • history
  • science

3. Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service

By: Maryn McKenna

3.72

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

IN THE WAR AGAINST DISEASES, THEY ARE THE SPECIAL FORCES. They always keep a bag packed. They seldo… read more

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  • history
  • science
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4. Viruses, Plagues and History

By: Michael B.A. Oldstone

4.11

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

The story of viruses and the story of humanity have been intertwined since the dawn of history. The… read more

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  • history
  • science
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5. When We Were Animals

By: Joshua Gaylord

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

A small, quiet Midwestern town, which is unremarkable save for one fact: when the teenagers reach a… read more

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6. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

By: Jim Murphy

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an … read more

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  • history
  • science

7. Virus X

By: Frank Ryan

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1980s our comforting illusion that we had conquered plagues through our discovery of vaccine… read more

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8. The Demon in the Freezer

By: Richard Preston

3.06

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

"The bard of biological weapons captures the drama of the front lines." -Richard Danzig, former sec… read more

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9. Girl One: Murder (Maya Gray #1)

By: Molly Black

4.11

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

FBI Special Agent Maya Gray, 39, has seen it all. She’s one of BAU’s rising stars and the go-to age… read more

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10. These Fleeting Shadows

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, ca… read more

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11. Murder in the Hollows (Jake Cashen #1)

By: Declan James

4.41

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

One small town’s dark secrets lay hidden in the hollows… Rumors have swirled around Jake Cashen … read more

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12. Kill Season (Jake Cashen #2)

By: Declan James

4.53

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

There's a killer on the loose deep in the backwoods of Blackhand Hills. When someone close to Detec… read more

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13. Bones of Echo Lake (Jake Cashen #3)

By: Declan James

4.58

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

The discovery of human bones on the idyllic shores of Echo Lake forces Detective Jake Cashen to exp… read more

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14. Her Last Moment (Jake Cashen #5)

By: Declan James

4.62

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

When Detective Jake Cashen’s new partner is found brutally slain, Jake must choose between justice … read more

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15. The Rust Maidens

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.72

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street. It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio,… read more

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"It was the most beautiful and horrible thing I’d ever seen, watching her become all that she was meant to be."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Rust Maidens

"He’s almost sixty, practically an old man, his eyes crinkled at the edges and his hair faded to gray. Yet nothing about him feels old to me. He feels exactly the same. I shouldn’t still want him. Aft…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Rust Maidens

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16. The Bone Forest (Wren Delacroix, #1)

By: V.J. Chambers

3.98

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

Can an FBI Academy dropout catch a vicious serial killer? It’s been fifteen years since Vivian De… read more

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17. Disease & History: From ancient times to Covid-19

By: Frederick F. Cartwright

3.87

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

A newly updated edition of a classic in the history of medicine with information on Covid-19. Arisi… read more

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  • history
  • science
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18. Seed of Evil

By: Greig Beck

4.01

Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition

There’s something growing deep in the old Angel Mine – Something the Native Americans warned us abo… read more

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19. Night of the Demons: Scares in Scotland

By: Christopher Artinian

4.31

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Seb and Summer Richards thought they’d found their perfect home.What they got was a horror they cou… read more

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20. The Fireside Book of Deadly Diseases

By: Robert Wilkins

3.90

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

The author & doctor chronicles the impact of deadly diseases on individuals, nations and the develo… read more

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21. The World’s Deadliest Plagues: The History and Legacy of the Worst Global Pandemics

By: Charles River Editors

3.86

Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition

*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts *Includes a bibliography for further… read more

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  • history
  • science
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22. The Flesh Eaters: The World's Deadliest Flesh-Eating Diseases

By: J.D. Sherwood

4.31

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever heard of the term necrotizing fasciitis? If you haven’t, then brace yourself for an e… read more

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23. Gut Health Pure & Simple: An Empowering Guide to Achieving Optimal Health & Vitality Through Nourishing Your Gut

By: Claudia Miller

4.00

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you cope with frequent abdominal discomfort, bloating, heartburn, weight gain, and frequent toil… read more

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24. Outbreak!: 50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorized the World

By: Beth Skwarecki

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From ancient scourges to modern-day pandemics! Throughout history--even recent history--highly con… read more

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  • history
  • science
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25. The Atlas of Disease: Mapping Deadly Epidemics and Contagion from the Plague to the Zika Virus

By: Sandra Hempel

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Behind every disease is a story, a complex narrative woven of multiple threads, from the natural hi… read more

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  • history
  • science
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26. Crimson Moon (Dalton Savage #5)

By: L.T. Ryan

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

In the heart of Hawk's Landing, the truth will be unearthed...As the Spring Equinox Festival paints… read more

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27. Arctodus (The Predation Series Book 2)

By: L.J. Vitanza

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

It has always lived among us, its existence unknown or long forgotten. After a long and brutal wint… read more

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28. Saurian

By: Michael Cole

4.23

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

For millions of years, it drifted through space. For millions of years, it has slept. For millions … read more

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29. Monster of the Loch

By: Lucas Pederson

4.33

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

During the chaos of World War I, a renegade Soviet scientist defies nature, splicing together the D… read more

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30. Tuberculosis: the Greatest Story Never Told: The Human Story of the Search for the Cure for Tuberculosis and the New Global Threat

By: Frank Ryan

4.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tuberculosis is the greatest infectious killer in history. Over the last three centuries it was res… read more

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  • history
  • science
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31. SABER

By: Jim Fender

4.31

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

In the quiet town of Hollow Creek, an unassuming factory hides a dark secret. Dean Laboratories, a … read more

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3.99

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3.10

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Maryn McKenna

3.72

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4.11

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4.27

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