📚 Epidemics

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with epidemics on their catalogue record, first published between 1531 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject epidemics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,670 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Black Death	Philip Ziegler	1969	34
Hippocrates	Hippocrates	1531	30
Rats, lice and history	Hans Zinsser	1934	26
The Great Influenza	John M. Barry	2004	20
Flu	Gina Kolata	1999	18
Plagues and Peoples	William Hardy McNeill	1976	15
The Ghost Map	Steven Johnson	2006	13
Spillover	David Quammen	2012	11
The Great Mortality	John Kelly	2005	9
Pandemic!	Slavoj Žižek	2020	9
Pale rider	Laura Spinney	2017	8
Doom	Niall Ferguson	2021	8
America's Forgotten Pandemic	Alfred W. Crosby	1989	7
The speckled monster	Jennifer Lee Carrell	2003	7
Epidemic	Brian R. Ward	2000	6
Dissolving Illusions	Suzanne Humphries MD	2013	6
COVID-19	Debora MacKenzie	2020	6
Syllabus of complete dentures	Heartwell, Charles M.	1968	4
Purple death	David Getz	2000	4
In the Wake of the Plague	Norman F. Cantor	2001	4
Epidemic Modelling	D. J. Daley	2001	3
Plagues	Christopher Wills	1997	2
Deadly Diseases (Horrible Science)	Nick Arnold	2000	2
Outbreak!	Beth Skwarecki	2016	2
Epidemics and society	Frank M. Snowden	2019	2
Virology	Joseph Osmundson	2022	2
Healing codes for the biological apocalypse	Leonard G. Horowitz	1999	1
Y The Last Man, Vol. 9	Brian K. Vaughan	2007	1
Viral Storm	Wolfe	2012	1
Pandemics	Christian W. McMillen	2016	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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