12 Sci-Fi Books About Pandemics That You Won't Be Able to Put Down

Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven tells the story of a global swine-flu pandemic, known as the Georgia Flu, which takes out most of the world's population. Twenty years after Year Zero, a group of traveling thespians move between populated settlements in the Great Lakes region, attempting to provide entertainment to those who remain — that is, until they encounter a mysterious prophet who threatens the group's existence.