Fiction featuring the Black Plague
Explore gripping fiction books featuring the Black Plague. Dive into historical novels, dark tales, and thrilling stories set during the deadly pandemic. Discover must-read plague fiction now!
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A Journal of the Plague Year
by Daniel Defoe
âThe surprise âmust-readâ for people facing the Covid-19 epidemic.â âThe Telegraph In 1665 the plague swept through London, claiming over 97,000 lives. Daniel Defoe was âŚ
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The Plague
by Albert Camus
âIts relevance lashes you across the face.â âStephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times ⢠âA redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even âŚ
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Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of âŚ
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The Years of Rice and Salt
by Kim Stanley Robinson
With the same unique vision that brought his now classic Mars trilogy to vivid life, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson boldly imagines an alternate history âŚ
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Company of Liars
by Karen Maitland
Maitland writes the stories of nine characters trying to escape the Black Death in her novel inspired by Chaucer's Canterbury tales.
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The Plague Tales
by Ann Benson
âPart historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense.ââEntertainment Weekly It is history's most feared disease. It âŚ
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Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
"When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine âŚ
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Eifelheim
by Michael Flynn
The alien world of medieval Europe lives again, transformed by the physics of the future, by a winner of the Heinlein Award Over the centuries, âŚ