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

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker revolves around a small college town in Southern California, where an inexplicable illness triggers perpetual sleep, first targeting the students of the local college, and later, the members of the town itself. Though doctors can't seem to rouse the patients, they notice that the dreamers are displaying unusual levels of brain activity — but what they're dreaming about is a mystery.