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A darkly hilarious and surprisingly uplifting romp through the most devastating plagues in human history. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Get well soon.
- morbidly fascinating
- lighthearted
- curious
- 01
Pale rider
Laura Spinney
A sweeping, sobering journey through a forgotten global trauma that reshaped the modern world.
- 02
Plagues and Peoples
William Hardy McNeill
A sweeping, sobering exploration of how microscopic biological forces have repeatedly rewritten the story of human civilization.
- 03
The Dirt on Clean
Katherine Ashenburg · 2007
A fascinating, unsanitized tour through the surprising history of human hygiene and the shifting cultural anxieties hidden behind a bar of soap.
- 04
The Great Influenza
John M. Barry
A sweeping, dread-soaked chronicle of humanity's collision with an invisible, apocalyptic force.
- 05
Flu
Gina Bari Kolata · 1999
A chilling, high-stakes medical mystery that unearths the devastating history and lingering threat of the 1918 pandemic.
- 06
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
Thomas Morris
A morbidly hilarious stroll through the bizarre, gruesome, and baffling trial-and-error history of Victorian medicine.
- 07
The Ghost Map
Steven Johnson · 2006
A gripping, grimy descent into Victorian London that reads like a medical detective thriller where science races against a deadly, invisible clock.
- 08
The coming plague
Laurie Garrett · 1994
A meticulously researched, dread-inducing journey into the invisible wars between humanity and microbes that reads like a prophetic thriller.
- 09
How to Survive a Plague
David France
An urgent, intimately reported chronicle of the fierce defiance and grassroots science that fought back against a devastating epidemic.
- 10
Rabid
Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
A morbidly fascinating descent into the medical and mythological history of humanity's most terrifying virus.
- 11
The Great Mortality
John Kelly
A visceral, ground-level descent into an apocalyptic past that feels terrifyingly immediate.
- 12
The End of October
Lawrence Wright
A dread-soaked medical thriller that races against time as a deadly virus unravels the modern world.
