The most popular pandemics books of 2025

Books about pandemics show what happens when disease sweeps through a society. Histories of plague and influenza sit beside novels of outbreak, quarantine and survival. They are about fear and rumor, and also about the doctors, neighbors and strangers who rise to the moment. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

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Dream Count
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Dream Count

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2025 · 2026 edition

464 pages

Moonsick
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Moonsick

Tom O'Donnell

Published 2025

346 pages

In Covid's Wake
Cover of In Covid's Wake

In Covid's Wake

Frances Lee, Stephen Macedo

2025 · 2026 edition

344 pages