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

Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake is the first novel in a trilogy, telling the story of Jimmy — now known as Snowman — who mourns the deaths of his best friend, Crake, and his crush, Oryx, while navigating a new world leveled by a plague. When Snowman encounters a group of primitive green-eyed creatures whom he calls the Crakers, he embarks on a foraging expedition with their help, and the story of how the global pandemic came about is slowly revealed.