100 Best Viral Books of All Time

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion book cover1

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Robert B. Cialdini

5.0
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference book cover2

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Malcolm Gladwell

5.0
An alternate cover edition exists here.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in the crime rate. This widely acclaimed bestseller,
Contagious: Why Things Catch On book cover3

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Jonah Berger

4.9
New York Times bestseller and named Best Marketing Book of 2014 by the American Marketing Association

What makes things popular? Why do people talk about certain products and ideas more than others? Why are some stories and rumors more infectious? And what makes online content go viral?

If you said advertising, think again. People don't listen to advertisements, they listen to their peers. But why d
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die book cover4

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Chip Heath, Dan Heath

4.8
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The instant classic about why some ideas thrive, why others die, and how to improve your idea's chances--essential reading in the "fake news" era.

Mark Twain once observed, "A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth can even get its boots on." His observation rings true: Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus news stories circulate effortlessly. Mean
Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter book cover5

Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable--Includes new bonus chapter

Seth Godin

4.6
You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice.

What do Starbucks and JetBlue and KrispyKreme and Apple and DutchBoy and Kensington and Zespri and Hard Candy have that you don't? How do they continue to confound critics and achieve spectacular growth, leaving behind former tried-and true brands to gasp their last?

Face it, the checklist of tired '
The Hot Zone book cover6

The Hot Zone

Richard Preston

4.6
A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of r
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Virals (Virals, #1)

Kathy Reichs

4.3
Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing on a nearby island, they are exposed to an experimental strain of canine parvovirus that changes their lives for
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Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 1: Introduction and Death Counts and Estimates

Alex Berenson

4.3
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Exposure (Virals, #4)

Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs

4.3
"If you like the TV show "Bones" (I do) or "Maximum Ride, "you'll love "Virals.""--James Patterson
Another thrilling Virals adventure from "New York Times" bestsellers Kathy and Brendan Reichs.
When twin classmates are abducted from Bolton Prep, Tory and the Virals decide there's no one better equipped than them to investigate. But the gang has other problems to face. Their powers are growing wil
Fangirl book cover10

Fangirl

Rainbow Rowell

4.3
A coming-of-age tale of fan fiction, family and first love.

Cath is a Simon Snow fan.

Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan..

But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History book cover11

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

John M. Barry

4.3
At the height of WWI, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collisio
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Terminal: A Virals Novel

Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs

4.3
The gripping finale to Kathy and Brendan Reichs’ New York Times bestselling VIRALS series

The Virals are back—but they’re not the only pack in town anymore. Terminal finds Tory Brennan and the rest of the Morris Island gang tracking a pack of rogue Virals who call themselves the Trinity. The new pack was infected by a strain of supervirus created by Tory’s nemesis and sometimes-crush, Chance Clayb
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic book cover13

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen

4.3
“Science writing as detective story at its best.” —Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in wild animals and
Ninth House - Signed / Autographed Copy book cover14

Ninth House - Signed / Autographed Copy

Leigh Bardugo

4.3
The mesmerizing adult debut from #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unso
On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book cover15

On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

Anthony Fauci M.D.

4.2
Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria book cover16

Herbal Antibiotics: Natural Alternatives for Treating Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Stephen Harrod Buhner

4.2
Current information about antibiotic resistant microbes and the herbs that are effective in fighting them.
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World book cover17

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

4.2
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcolm Gladwell, The Ghost Map is a riveting page-turner about a real-life historical hero, Dr. John Snow. It's the summer of 1854, and London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure—garbage removal, clean water, sewers—necessary to support its rapid
Dissolving Illusions book cover18

Dissolving Illusions

Suzanne Humphries MD

4.2
Not too long ago, lethal infections were feared in the Western world. Since that time, many countries have undergone a transformation from disease cesspools to much safer, healthier habitats. Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing to relatively minor levels by the early 1900s. The history of that transformation involves famine, poverty
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Red Book 2018: Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases

David W. Kimberlin MDFAAP, Sarah S. Long MDFAAP, et al.

4.2
Extending an 8-decade tradition of excellence, Red Book® provides the most reliable and clinically useful information on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of more than 200 childhood infectious diseases.

The 31st edition provides evidence-based guidance to practicing clinicians on pediatric infections and vaccinations based on the recommendations of the committee a
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)

Justin Cronin

4.2
IT HAPPENED FAST.
THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the
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Stupid Gone Viral: When Science and Reality Collide

Kathy Scott Ph.D., Bridget Sarikas, et al.

4.2
Legend (Legend, #1) book cover22

Legend (Legend, #1)

Janie Chan

4.2
What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not
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Seizure (Virals, #2)

Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs

4.2
The second novel in the Virals trilogy from #1 bestselling author and inspiration for the TV series Bones - Kathy Reichs!

Ever since Tory Brennan and her friends rescued Cooper, a kidnapped wolf pup with a rare strain of canine parvovirus, they've turned from regular kids into a crime-solving pack! But now the very place that brought them together - the Loggerhead Island Research Institute - is out
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Herbal Antivirals: Natural Remedies for Emerging Resistant Viral Infections

Stephen Harrod Buhner

4.2
Current information about antibiotic resistant microbes and the herbs that are effective in fighting them.
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Code (Virals, #3)

Kathy Reichs

4.2
Tory and the rest of the Virals are put to the ultimate test when they find a geocache containing an ornate puzzle box. Shelton decodes the cipher inside, only to find more tantalizing clues left by "The Gamemaster." A second, greater geocache is within reach—if the Virals are up to the challenge. But the hunt takes a dark turn when Tory locates the other box—it contains a fake bomb, along with a
Polio: An American Story book cover26

Polio: An American Story

David M. Oshinsky

4.2
Here David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of the polio terror and of the intense effort to find a cure, from the March of Dimes to the discovery of the Salk and Sabin vaccines--and beyond. Drawing on newly available papers of Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin and other key players, Oshinsky paints a suspenseful portrait of the race for the cure, weaving a dramatic tale centered on the furious rivalry be
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The Twelve (The Passage, #2)

Justin Cronin

4.2
In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward with The Twelve.

In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Lila, a doctor and an ex
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The City of Mirrors (The Passage, #3)

Justin Cronin

4.2
The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place?

The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew—and daring to dream of a hopeful future.

But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The
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Queen Move

Kennedy Rya

4.2
The boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can't have…

Dig a little and you'll find photos of me in the bathtub with Ezra Stern.
Get your mind out of the gutter. We were six months old.
Pry and one of us might confess we saved our first kiss for each other.
The most clumsy, wet, sloppy . . . spectacular thirty seconds of my adolescence.
Get into our business and you'll see two families, clos
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Cured (Stung, #2)

Bethany Wiggins

4.1
Now that Fiona Tarsis and her twin brother, Jonah, are no longer beasts, they set out to find their mother, with the help of Bowen and a former neighbor, Jacqui. Heading for a safe settlement rumored to be in Wyoming, they plan to spread the cure along the way--until they are attacked by raiders. Luckily, they find a new ally in Kevin, who saves them and leads them to safety in his underground she
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The Idea of You

Robinne Lee

4.1
When Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious art gallery in Los Angeles, takes her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band, she does so reluctantly and at her ex-husband’s request. The last thing she expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous August Moon. But Hayes Campbell is clever, winning, confident, and posh, and the attracti
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Annihilation (Southern Reach #1)

Jeff Vandermeer

4.1
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, a
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The Game Plan (Game On, #3)

Kristen Calliha

4.1
A beard-related dare and one hot-as-hell kiss changes everything.

NFL center Ethan Dexter’s focus has always been on playing football and little else. Except when it comes to one particular woman. The lovely Fiona Mackenzie might not care about his fame, but she’s also never looked at him as anything more than one of her brother-in-law’s best friend. That ends now.

Fi doesn’t know what to make of D
Deception: The Great COVID Cover-Up book cover34

Deception: The Great COVID Cover-Up

Rand Paul

4.1

Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the COVID pandemic and shut down scientific dissent.One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America’s Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physician. Deception is his indictment of the catastrophic failures of the public health bureaucracy durin

Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases book cover35

Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Diseases

Paul A. Offit

4.1
His goal—to prevent every disease that commonly attacked children—was unattainable. But Maurice Hilleman came close.

Maurice Hilleman is the father of modern vaccines. Chief among his accomplishments are nine vaccines that practically every child gets, rendering formerly deadly diseases—including mumps, rubella, and measles—nearly forgotten. Author Paul A. Offit’s rich and lively narrative details
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End of Summer

S.M. Anderson

4.1
When a viral apocalypse kills 97% percent of the people on the planet, the survivor's humanity is hanging by a thread. Fighting over the leftovers of civilization, what's needed is a hero that's more killer than saint. The people he finds become family and that is very bad news for those who think they are running things.

This is the first book in new series from the author of the Eden Chronicle's
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age

Nathan Wolfe

4.1
Dynamic young Stanford biologist Nathan Wolfe reveals the surprising origins of the world's most deadly viruses, and how we can overcome catastrophic pandemics.

In The Viral Storm, award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe tells the story of how viruses and human beings have evolved side by side through history; how deadly viruses like HIV, swine flu, and bird flu almost wiped us out in the past; and w
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story book cover38

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

Michael Lewis

4.1
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A Prince on Paper (Reluctant Royals, #3)

Alyssa cole

4.1
The Reluctant Royals series returns with a good girl searching for the life that’s not too big, and not too small, and the bad boy prince who might be just right for her…

Nya Jerami fled Thesolo for the glitz and glamour of NYC but discovered that her Prince Charming only exists in her virtual dating games. When Nya returns home for a royal wedding, she accidentally finds herself up close and perso
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Viral Hero: How to Build Viral Products, Turn Customers Into Marketers, and Achieve Superhuman Growth

Travis Steffen

4.1
If you think “viral marketing” only refers to making videos or memes to get shares on social media, there’s a reason you’ve found it difficult to grow your business. In Viral Hero, serial entrepreneur and growth engineer Travis Steffen reveals his comprehensive, battle-tested strategy for building products capable of true viral growth. Developed over years of research and more than a decade of sta
Microbe Hunters book cover41

Microbe Hunters

Paul de Kruif

4.1
“It manages to delight, and frequently to entrance, old and new readers [and] continues to engage our hearts and minds today with an indescribably brand of affectionate sympathy.”—F. Gonzalez-Crussi, from the Introduction

An international bestseller, translated into eighteen languages, Paul de Kruif’s classic account of the first scientists to see and learn about the microscopic world continues to
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The Fireman

Joe Hill

4.1
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.

The fireman is coming. Stay cool.

No one knows exactly when it began or whe
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs book cover43

Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

Michael T. Osterholm

4.1
A world-leading epidemiologist shares his stories from the front lines of our war on infectious diseases and explains how to prepare for epidemics that can challenge world order.

Every new development--from exploding human and animal populations to trade and travel--intensifies our susceptibility to a devastating epidemic. Ironically, a pandemic on the scale of the 1918 flu that killed perhaps a hu
Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences book cover44

Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

Nancy Duarte

4.1
Reveals the underlying story form of all great presentations that will not only create impact, but will move people to action Presentations are meant to inform, inspire, and persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time? All too often, presentations don't resonate with the audience and move them to transformative action.

Just as the author's first
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Social Media Marketing in 2019 and into 2020: A Step-By-Step How-To Guide to Make Your Business or Product Go Viral

Steven Miller Russel Matthews

4.1
Social media marketing is one of the most effective and low-cost ways to promote your business. If you aren't already doing it, you're falling behind. One thing that can be guaranteed is that your competition is either on social media already or they are making plans to make the transition. Are you going to sit back and let them take the lead? Or are you going to get your business online now and c
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The Girl With All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)

Carey.M.R

4.1
Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius."

Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.

Melanie loves school. She loves learning about sp
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The Dragon Factory (Joe Ledger, #2)

Jonathan Maberry

4.1
Joe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists. One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenary armies; the other is using 21st century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Josef Mengele. Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they've drawn first blood. Neither side is prep
The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility book cover48

The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility

Lisa Hendrickson-Jack

4.1
MENSTRUATION ISN'T JUST ABOUT HAVING BABIESYour menstrual cycle is a vital sign, just like your pulse, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pressure. And it provides you with essential information about your health. The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles and Optimize Your Fertility brings together over 1,000 meticulously researched scientific references in a textbook-quality guide to unders
No One’s Coming: The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There’s Nowhere Else to Turn book cover49

No One’s Coming: The Rogue Heroes Our Government Turns to When There’s Nowhere Else to Turn

Kevin Hazzard

4.1

From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten infected. The virus kills in just over a week and they’re trapped in a hot zone with the clock ticking. If the

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The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, Newsjacking, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly

David Meerman Scott

4.1
The international bestseller--now in a new edition When it comes to marketing, anything goes in the Digital Age, right? Well, not quite. While marketing and public relations tactics do seem to change overnight, every smart businessperson knows that it takes a lot more than the 'next big thing.'

The New Rules of Marketing & PR is an international bestseller with more than 375,000 copies sold in twen
Healing Lyme: Natural Healing of Lyme Borreliosis and the Coinfections Chlamydia and Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis book cover51

Healing Lyme: Natural Healing of Lyme Borreliosis and the Coinfections Chlamydia and Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis

Stephen Harrod Buhner, Dr. Neil Nathan M.D.

4.1
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Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done

Andrea Gonzales

4.1
Perfect for aspiring coders everywhere, Girl Code is the story of two teenage tech phenoms who met at Girls Who Code summer camp, teamed up to create a viral video game, and ended up becoming world famous. The book also includes bonus content to help you get started coding!

Fans of funny and inspiring books like Maya Van Wagenen’s Popular and Caroline Paul’s Gutsy Girl will love hearing about Andre
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Fragments (Partials Sequence, #2)

Dan Wells

4.1
Author Dan Wells is back with the sequel to the sci-fi blockbuster Partials, which Pittacus Lore called a "thrilling sci-fi adrenaline rush, with one of the most compelling and frightening visions of Earth's future I've seen yet."

After discovering the cure for RM, Kira Walker sets off on a terrifying journey into the ruins of postapocalyptic America and the darkest desires of her heart in order to
Plagues and Peoples book cover54

Plagues and Peoples

William H. McNeill

4.1
Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to the typhoid epidemic i
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Sever (The Chemical Garden, #3)

Lauren DeStefano

4.1
Time is running out for Rhine in this conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Chemical Garden Trilogy.

With the clock ticking until the virus takes its toll, Rhine is desperate for answers. After enduring Vaughn’s worst, Rhine finds an unlikely ally in his brother, an eccentric inventor named Reed. She takes refuge in his dilapidated house, though the people she left behind refuse to stay in t
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis book cover56

The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

Maria Smilios

4.1
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Inhuman (Fetch, #1)

Kat Falls

4.1
In a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father’s life is forfeit.

America has been ravaged by a war that has left the eastern half of the country riddled with mutation. Many of the people there exhibit varying degrees of animal traits. Even the plantlife has gone feral.

Crossing from west to east is supposed to be for
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The Tapper Twins Go Viral

Geoff Rodkey

4.1
Told as a series of interviews, photos, texts, social media hits, and videogame screenshots, The Tapper Twins Go Viral is a laugh-a-page story about online fame and shame, with internet pro-tips and a serious lesson about digital citizenship.

Claudia Tapper just doesn't get it: How is it possible that the video of the best breakup song she's ever written is watched by virtually nobody, when her b
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Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age

Miriam Felton-Dansky

4.1
Digital culture has occasioned a seismic shift in the discourse around contagion, transmission, and viral circulation. Yet theater, in the cultural imagination, has always been contagious. Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters rethink the Living
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Ruins (Partials Sequence, #3)

Dan Wells

4.1
Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans in the gripping final installment in the Partials Sequence, a series that combines the thrilling action of The Hunger Games with the provocative themes of Blade Runner and The Stand.

There is no avoiding it—the war to decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold in their possession a weapon th
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease book cover61

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

Dr. Sharon Moalem, Jonathan Prince

4.1
Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to the tanning salon help lower your cholesterol? Why do we age? Why are some people immune to HIV? Can your genes be turned on -- or off?

Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally
Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives book cover62

Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

Alex Berenson

4.1
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The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture

Darrel W. Ray

4.1
Dr. Darrel Ray, psychologist and lifelong student of religion, discusses religious infection from the inside out. How does guilt play into religious infection? Why is sexual control so important to so many religions? What causes the anxiety and neuroticism around death and dying? How does religion inject itself into so many areas of life, culture, and politics? The author explores this and much mo
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time book cover64

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

John Kelly

4.1
The Great Plague is one of the most compelling events in human history, even more so now, when the notion of plague—be it animal or human—has never loomed larger as a contemporary public concern

The plague that devastated Asia and Europe in the 14th century has been of never-ending interest to both scholarly and general readers. Many books on the plague rely on statistics to tell the story: how man
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Partials (Partials Sequence, #1)

Dan Wells

4.1
Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save
Requiem (Delirium, #3) book cover66

Requiem (Delirium, #3)

Lauren Oliver

4.0
Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. The nascent rebellion that was underway in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight. After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven. Pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the
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Patient Zero (Joe Ledger, #1)

Jonathan Maberry

4.0
When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills... and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems tha
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Viral Misery: Miracles (Book 2)

Thomas A. Watson, Tina D. Watson, et al.

4.0
Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple: Spiral Bound Color Edition book cover69

Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple: Spiral Bound Color Edition

Mark T. Gladwin M.D., William Trattler M.D., C. Scott Mahan M.D.

4.0

NEW COLOR EDITION!!!Excellent for USMLE Board Review!A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable updated approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from Ebola to AIDS to flesh-eating bacteria; to mad cow disease, hantavirus, anthrax, smallpox, botulism, Clostridium difficile diagnosis and treatment; treatment of gonorrhea in light of gro

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Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves

Adam Penenberg

4.0
Here's something you may not know about today's Internet. Simply by designing your product the right way, you can build a flourishing business from scratch. No advertising or marketing budget, no need for a sales force, and venture capitalists will flock to throw money at you. Many of the most successful Web 2.0 companies, including MySpace, YouTube, eBay, and rising stars like Twitter and Flickr,
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GOD Plague (Viral Thrillers)

Phoenix Sullivan

4.0
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Stung (Stung, #1)

Bethany Wiggins

4.0
There is no cure for being stung.

Fiona doesn’t remember going to sleep. But when she awakens, her world no longer exists. Her house is abandoned and broken. Her neighborhood is barren and dead. And there is a tattoo on her right hand. A tattoo Fiona doesn’t remember getting…but somehow she must conceal at any cost. Because humanity has been divided.

Those bearing the tattoo have turned into mindles
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The Demon in the Freezer

RICHARD PRESTON

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The first major bioterror event in the United States-the anthrax attacks in October 2001-was a clarion call for scientists who work with “hot” agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon in the Freezer, his first nonfiction book since The Hot Zone, a #1 New York Times bestseller, Richard Preston takes us into the heart of Usamriid, the United Sta
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The Wedge: Evolution, Consciousness, Stress and the Key to Human Resilience

Scott Carney

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From the New York Times Bestselling author of "What Doesn't Kill Us"

"Crazy good writing" - Wim Hof

Thrive or die: That's the rule of evolution. Despite this brutal logic, some species have learned to survive in even the most hostile conditions. Others couldn't—and perished. While incremental genetic adaptations hone the physiology of nearly every creature on this planet, there's another evolutiona
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House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox

William H. Foege

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A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a man who was one of the architects of a radical vaccination scheme that became a key strategy in ending th
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Shock (Virals, #0.5)

Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reich

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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them book cover77

Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

Jennifer Wright

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A humorous book about history's worst plagues—from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio—and the heroes who fought them

In 1518, in a small town in France, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn’t stop. She danced herself to her death six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had died from the mysterious dancing plague. In late-ninet
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Unleashing the Ideavirus

Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell

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Counter to traditional marketing wisdom which tries to count, measure and manipulate the spread of information, bestselling author Seth Godin argues that the information can spread most effectively from customer to customer, rather than from business to customer. Godin calls this powerful customer-to-customer dialogue the ideavirus and cheerfully eggs markets on to create an environment where thei
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Tweet Cute

Emma Lord

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A fresh, irresistible rom-com from debut author Emma Lord about the chances we take, the paths life can lead us on, and how love can be found in the opposite place you expected.

Meet Pepper, swim team captain, chronic overachiever, and all-around perfectionist. Her family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming ― mainly thanks to Pepper, who is barely managing to juggle r
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Why Can't I Get Better?: Solving the Mystery of Lyme & Chronic Disease

Richard I. Horowitz

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The Tennis Partner

Abraham Verghese

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An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone.

When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addiction, and th
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Instinct (Chess Team Adventure, #2)

Jeremy Robinson

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The president of the United States is dead—assassinated by a weaponized strain of the Brugada Syndrome, a genetic disease that kills without symptom. Without warning. The infected fall over dead, their healthy hearts stopped. Thankfully, the fast actions of the Secret Service revive the President. But the assassination attempt was just the beginning. The contagious new strain spreads silently acro
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Spike (Virals, #5.5)

Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reich

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The pack is back on the prowl in this Virals adventure set after the events of Terminal.

Tory and the Virals have untangled the most twisted mysteries and proven no crime is too complex for them to solve…now they just need to make it through Kit and Whitney’s wedding day. As the daughter of the groom and maid-of-honor it’s up to Tory to make sure everything goes off without a hitch. She expected to
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Words Wound: Delete Cyberbullying and Make Kindness Go Viral

Justin W. Patchin

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Cyberbullying among teens happens every day. Harsh words and damaging photos exchanged through texts, email, or social media can result in humiliation, broken friendships, punishment at school, and even legal prosecution. In some cases, online harassment has contributed to suicide. Faced with this frightening problem, parents, educators, and teens are looking for information and advice. But few cy
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V is for Virgin (V is for Virgin, #1)

Kelly Ora

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When Val Jensen gets dumped for her decision to stay a virgin until marriage, the nasty breakup goes viral on YouTube, making her the latest internet sensation.

After days of ridicule from her peers, Val starts a school-wide campaign to rally support for her cause. She meant to make a statement, but she never dreamed the entire nation would get caught up in the controversy.

As if becoming national
Unlocking Lyme: Myths, Truths, and Practical Solutions for Chronic Lyme Disease book cover86

Unlocking Lyme: Myths, Truths, and Practical Solutions for Chronic Lyme Disease

William Rawls MD

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Reboot (Reboot, #1)

Amy Tintera

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Five years ago, Wren Connolly was shot three times in the chest. After 178 minutes she came back as a Reboot: stronger, faster, able to heal, and less emotional. The longer Reboots are dead, the less human they are when they return. Wren 178 is the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Now seventeen years old, she serves as a soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation).

W
How Can I Get Better?: An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme & Chronic Disease book cover88

How Can I Get Better?: An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme & Chronic Disease

Richard Horowitz

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Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple

Mark T. Gladwin, William Trattler, et al.

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Infected (Infected, #1)

Scott Sigler

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Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.

Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya rac
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Fever (The Chemical Garden, #2)

Lauren DeStefano

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Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind.

Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - su
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Healing Lyme Disease Coinfections: Complementary and Holistic Treatments for Bartonella and Mycoplasma

Stephen Harrod Buhner

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A guide to the natural treatment of two of the most common and damaging coinfections of Lyme disease--Bartonella and Mycoplasma

• Reveals how these conditions often go undiagnosed, complicate Lyme treatment, and cause a host of symptoms--from arthritis to severe brain dysfunction

• Outlines natural treatments for both infections, with herbs and supplements for specific symptoms and to combat overr
Plague: One Scientist's Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases book cover93

Plague: One Scientist's Intrepid Search for the Truth about Human Retroviruses and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Autism, and Other Diseases

Kent Heckenlively

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On July 22, 2009, a special meeting was held with twenty-four leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health to discuss early findings that a newly discovered retrovirus was linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), prostate cancer, lymphoma, and eventually neurodevelopmental disorders in children. When Dr. Judy Mikovits finished her presentation the room was silent for a moment, then one
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The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

Kyle Harper

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How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire

Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome's power--a story of nature's triumph over human ambition. Interwea
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World) book cover95

Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

Kyle Harper

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Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History book cover96

Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History

Paul Farmer

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Man Hands (Man Hands, #1)

Andrea Pinkney and Brian Pinkney

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He puts the "screw" in screwball comedy...

BRYNN

At thirty-four, I’m reeling from a divorce. I don’t want to party or try to move on. I just want to stay home and post a new recipe on my blog: Brynn’s Dips and Balls.

But my friends aren’t having it. Get out there again, they say. It will be fun, they say. I’m still taking a hard pass.

Free designer cocktails, they say. And that’s a game-changer.

Too
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Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)

Lauren DeStefano

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By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and youn
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Free Prize Inside!: The Next Big Marketing Idea

Seth Godin

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Swipe (Virals, #3.5)

Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reich

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Tory Brennan and her great aunt Tempe join forces to investigate a crime at Comic-Con in this exclusive direct-to-digital short story from Kathy Reichs, author of Bones of the Lost and Virals.

A valuable Terminator replica disappears from the nerd nirvana of Comic-Con. Tory Brennan and her great aunt Tempe are on the scene, and join forces to investigate. Surely the Terminator can't have just vani