Thursday, February 27, 2020

Ten bone-chilling books featuring fictional pandemics

At BookRiot, Anna Gooding-Call tagged ten fictional pandemics that will make you sweat, including:
The Fireman by Joe Hill

There’s a spore going around that makes people burst into flame. Every day, something new burns: a forest, a hospital, a school, and countless people. Yet there’s a contingent that isn’t burning. They’ve solved the spore’s secret and learned to survive. Of course, that depends on the uninfected leaving them alone…
Read about the other entries on the list.

Also see Laura Spinney's best books about pandemics and Claudia Gray's five essential books about plagues and pandemics.

--Marshal Zeringue