During these challenging times, it may be hard to imagine anything like this happening before. It is important to use this time to learn about the history and stories of a pandemic. These are some of our top picks for books to read about a pandemic
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The Great Mortality is an extraordinary account of one of the worst natural disasters recorded in European history. A time of misery, madness, and desperatality takes over Europe and is portrayed perfectly through this book.
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider, written by Katherine Anne Porter, is set in the time during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The book is focused on a young girl falling in love with a soldier, with problems of influenza and WWI in their way.
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The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton is written under the viewpoint of a group of scientists investigating the potential outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona. This story is an interesting take on our normal "pandemic", but is an intense thriller read for all.
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Spinrad uses this short novel , Journals of the Plague Years, to critique views on HIV and AIDS in 1980s, believing that the urgency of these viruses are overlooked. He uses a widespread fictional virus to promote his concerns and the story follows the questions of life and death.
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Ryman's The Child Garden takes place in a futuristic society where cancer has been cured, but life spans have shortened. People use viruses as tool to benefit humans with drastic drawbacks. The novel deals with issues of selfishness, sickness, and mortality as the story unfolds itself to be a brilliant description about the horrors of humankind.