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

In Blindness by José Saramago, an unnamed city is struck by a mass epidemic of blindness, affecting nearly everyone and forcing authorities to confine the blind to an overcrowded asylum. When the patients trapped in the hospital find themselves victim to looters and rapists, the one person who has managed to keep her sight attempts to lead a small band of strangers to safety.