Books like The Hot Zone? I read it in 2019 and have yet to read a book that made me anxious, scared, yet completely enthralled. The thing is, I have bad health anxiety, but in a way, I feel like these types of books are a sort of "exposure therapy" for me.
Does anyone have suggestions of books (can be non-fiction or fiction) like The Hot Zone or about diseases/viruses? Even books about medical nonfiction about outbreaks, pathology, and death science, areas like that. Anything except COVID (already know a lot about that lol) or rabies!
For reference, I've also read:
- Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come – Richard Preston
- The Cobra Event – Richard Preston
- Working Stiff – Judy Melinek (loved!!)
- Stiff – Mary Roach (didn't really enjoy…I liked Melinek's better)
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes + Will My Cats Eat My Eyeballs? – Caitlin Doughty
- Unnatural Causes – Dr. Richard Shepherd
- The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir – Steffanie Strathdee (intense!)
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