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

In Peng Shepherd's The Book of M, people mysteriously start losing their shadows — along with their memories — and society breaks into two factions: the shadowed and the shadowless. Married couple Max and Ory try to escape the Forgetting by holing up in a remote hotel in Virginia, but when Max succumbs to the plague and loses her shadow, the pair must contend with the consequences.