15 best-selling nonfiction books like The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah

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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

By: Sonia Shah

3.46

Format: 103 pages,

In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause celebre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bo…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

By: Mary Roach

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • 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
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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3. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • health
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4. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

By: Mary Roach

4.36

Format: 352 pages,

"Equal parts Groucho Marx & Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening & entertaining."--Sunday Denver Po… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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5. The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

By: Sonia Shah

3.46

Format: 103 pages,

In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause celebre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bo… read more

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  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science

6. The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

By: John Kelly

4.25

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

La moria grandissimabegan its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, le… read more

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7. This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society

By: Kathleen McAuliffe

3.76

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Based on a wildly popular Atlantic article: an astonishing investigation into the world of microbes… read more

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8. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more

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9. Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease

By: Sharon Moalem , None

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Read it. You're already living it. Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a dea… read more

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10. The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

By: Samantha Power

4.34

Format: 592 pages, ebook

Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rig… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The world is filled with broken places. Pick your battles, and go win some."

-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

"Agency. Self-determination. Dignity. Solidarity. We could not discount the potential impact of even one such altered perspective on a young girl, her family, and, eventually, on an entire community."

-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

"The ugly political winds in the United States contrasted sharply with the earnest gravity of the occasion. Donald Trump had launched his campaign for president on a platform that blatantly stoked fea…"

-Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

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11. The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having―or Being Denied―an Abortion

By: Diana Greene Foster

4.58

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without t… read more

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  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

12. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

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  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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13. Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

By: J.W. Ocker

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated compendium that reveals the true stories behind the most infamous, creepy, and bizar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

By: Ben Westhoff

4.02

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illici… read more

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  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop

By: Adam Kucharski

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From ideas and infections to financial crises and "fake news," why the science of outbreaks is the … read more

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  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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16. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

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17. We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

By: Sally Adee

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that ru… read more

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  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • biology
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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18. Bitch: On the Female of the Species

By: Lucy Cooke

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more

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  • biology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
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19. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

By: Molly McGhee

3.50

Format: 304 pages, None

Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more

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20. Red Island House

By: Andrea Lee

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Shay is surprised when her husband Senna declares his intention to build her a spectacular dream ho… read more

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21. The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America

By: Nikesh Shukla

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like … read more

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  • nonfiction

11 must-read history books like The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah

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Mary Roach

4.28

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David Quammen

3.10

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4.36

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Cristina Rivera Garza

4.35

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4.50

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Tanya Selvaratnam

3.70

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Jess Hill

4.66

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