The Plague
1947 · 308 pages
Rats die in the streets of an Algerian port, the gates shut, and a doctor named Rieux keeps working. Camus meant the German occupation, and every epidemic since has proved him right.
★ 8.6
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The Emperor of all Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
2010 · 571 pages
Cancer gets a full biography, traced from an Egyptian physician's papyrus to the leukemia ward where Mukherjee treats a young kindergarten teacher. He makes the invention of chemotherapy read like a war.
★ 5.5