Hi there! It has been a while since I updated my blog. I will be now regularly updating the same quite often from now on!
So, I would like to ask you all one question in particular. Are you interested in reading books beyond the ones which are recommended in the syllabus?
If yes, you are about to get a list of books, which I think should be in collection of and read by everyone, who is passionate for Virology, Immunology & Infectious Diseases. I will also be reviewing all these books on my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj0m4bnQb6P27fjtcZirrkg):
Sr. No. | Name | Author |
1 | Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World–Told from the Inside by the Man Who Ran It | Ken Alibek & Stephen Handelman |
2 | Cancer Virus: The Story of Epstein-Barr Virus | Dorothy H. Crawford, Alan Rickinson |
3 | Ebola: The Natural and Human History | David Quammen |
4 | Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government’s Secret Germ Laboratory | Michael C. Carroll |
5 | Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC | Joseph B. McCormick & Susan Fisher-Hoch |
6 | Microbe Hunters | Paul de Kruif |
7 | No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses | Peter Piot |
8 | Outbreak: 50 Tales of Epidemics that Terrorised the World | Beth Skwarecki |
9 | Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Ebola & beyond | Sonia Shah |
10 | Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong | Paul A. Offit |
11 | Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus | Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy |
12 | Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic | David Quammen |
13 | The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance | Laurie Garrett |
14 | The Demon in the Freezer | Richard Preston |
15 | The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History | John M. Barry |
16 | The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak | Richard Preston |
17 | The Next Pandemic: On the front against Humankind’s gravest dangers | Ali S. Khan |
18 | The Origins of AIDS | Jacques Pepin |
19 | The Vaccine Race: How Scientists used Human Cells to combat Killer Viruses | Meredith Wadman |
20 | The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age | Nathan Wolfe |
21 | Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases | Paul A. Offit |
22 | Virolution: The most important evolution book since Dawkins’ Selfish Gene | Frank Ryan |
23 | Virus Ground Zero: Stalking the Killer Viruses with the Centers for Disease Control | Ed Regis |
24 | Virus Hunter: Thirty Years of battling Hot Viruses around thw world | C.J.Peters & Mark Olshaker |
25 | Viruses, Plagues & History: Past, Present & Future | Michael B.A. Oldstone |
26 | Zika: The Emerging Epidemic | Donald G. McNeil Jr |
P.S.: The books in the picture above are the books I own and have read (proud owner of 23 books now). Some of them were kind donations from the authors and some of them were kind gifts from my parents, friends….and some of them form myself (:-P). I will review all the books in the list above soon! Please subscribe to my blog and YouTube channel for future updates!
Thanks!