The Great Mortality

The Great Mortality

By
John Kelly
John Kelly
2005 • 364 pages

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12 books

Historical

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Jillian
The Vaccine Race
Between Hope and Fear
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Great Mortality
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
A Journal of the Plague Year
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital

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14 books

Science

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The Plague and I
Deadly Choices
Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
Fever 1793
A Journal of the Plague Year
Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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187 books

To Read Non Fiction

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Brittanie
Death
Getting Waisted
The Dying Game
Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths
Driving with Dead People
Jack the Ripper and black magic
The Horologicon

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85 books

On Kindle

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Empires of the Word
The Stepford Wives
All the Lies They Did Not Tell
Blood in the Garden
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
Lizzy & Jane

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57 books

History General

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Life in Ancient Egypt
The Great Depression and New Deal
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History: From 1900 to the Present Day
The Oxford companion to United States history
When We Went First Class
The Black Death
Nothing Like It in the World

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6 books

These Books Will Kill You

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Christina
The Great Mortality
The Woman with a Worm in Her Head
Strange Medicine
Blood Work
The American Plague
Rabid

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0 books

Owned

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Mary Brodd
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
1493
The Great Mortality
Heris Serrano
Galileo's Daughter
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School
How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food

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19 books

Medieval

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Eifelheim
The Pillars of the Earth
An Earthly Knight
Lords of the North
The Red Queen
The Burning Land

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104 books

Non Fiction

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Merle's door
The Waste Land, and Other Poems
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Zoo story

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1,344 books

Want To Read Do Not Own

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R.U.R.
Bitten by witch fever
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Doomsday Book

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78 books

Old School Fun

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder
Sybil
Phantoms in the Brain
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
An American Plague
The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Health Care Organizations

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14 books

Want To Read Non Fiction

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East West Street
If You Ask Me
The Trouble with Passion
The Stranger in the Woods
Racism Without Racists
Hairstyles of the Damned
The Great Mortality

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Maybe Someday

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American Psycho
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Beloved
Blindness
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Song of Solomon

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Wrong Place Wrong Time
You're Invited
Reckless Girls
Escape Room A Novel
The Island
The Plot
Hidden Pictures

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286 books

Nonfiction Gen

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Don't Shoot, We're Republicans: The True Story of the FBI Agent Who Did Things His Way
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Terrorism: A History
Danse Macabre
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
J.R.R. Tolkien
Columbine

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104 books

History Biography

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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Columbine
Che
In Cold Blood
Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire
Rasputin
Cannibal Killers: Monsters with an Appetite for Murder and a Taste for Human Flesh

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381 books

Darkling

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Beyond the Body Farm
Danse Macabre
Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
Evil Genes
The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
The Great Mortality

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124 books

Nonfiction

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The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
Lost person behavior
Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
Noopiming : The Cure for White Ladies

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168 books

Non Fiction

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Spillover: Animal Infection and the Human Pandemic
Rabid
The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug
The Knife Man
The American Plague
The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story
Dragon's Blood & Willow Bark: The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine

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1,036 books

C Unsorted

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A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
A Witch's Handbook of Kisses and Curses
Accidentally in Love with...a God?
A Gift for Kit
A Court of Mist and Fury

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99 books

History

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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Atlas Obscura
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Suburban Legends: True Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Minivans
The Devil's Cloth : A History of Stripes

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74 books

Science

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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

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163 books

Nonfiction

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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
The Botany of Desire
The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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20 books

Disease

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Get Well Soon
Vaccinated
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis

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250 books

Started But Meh

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Cruising Attitude
A God in the Shed
King Rat
The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory
The Wren Hunt