Pandemic fiction books
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New to the genre? These 5 are the books to read first.
Station Eleven
Emily St. John MandelDepicts a traveling Shakespeare troupe navigating the Great Lakes region twenty years after a flu wipeout.
The Stand
Stephen KingFollows the social collapse after an accidental military bioweapon leak and the survivors who regroup in competing camps.
The Andromeda Strain
Michael CrichtonEstablishes the procedural scientific thriller model through a military laboratory investigating an extraterrestrial pathogen.
Earth Abides
George Rippey StewartFocuses on ecological recovery and the decline of technical knowledge among survivors across generations.
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I Am LegendRichard Matheson - The Plague
The PlagueAlbert Camus - Doomsday Book
Doomsday BookConnie Willis - Oryx and Crake
Oryx and CrakeMargaret Atwood - Blindness
BlindnessJosé Saramago - Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Pale Horse, Pale RiderKatherine Anne Porter - Zone One
Zone OneColson Whitehead - Where Two Seas Met
Where Two Seas MetLynn Morris2001 - Marco and the Devil's Bargain
Marco and the Devil's BargainCarla Kelly2014