Spirit of America Bookstore U.S.  Timeline  –  2020  Coronavirus  Epidemic Books  About  Plagues  &  Epidemics This page covers details of the many plagues and pandemics prior to the worldwide Wuhan 2019-nCoV Coronavirus Epidemic of that began in 2020. 1660-2000 • 2001-2009 • 2010-2019 • 2020 • 2021 & forward U.S. Timeline – 2020 Coronavirus Epidemic Pages top of Page 1    •    epidemic history to 2019    •    2020 - epidemic begins    •    image gallery top of Page 2    •    RECENT EVENTS Spirit of America Timeline for Coronavirus Epidemic in New Mexico Page State of New Mexico Coronavirus Epidemic Information Page Dictionary.com announced in December that its Word of the Year for 2020 was ... pandemic.                                                                   Fiction  &  Non-Fiction  Books 1660-2000 {just below} • 2001-2009 • 2010-2019 • 2020 • 2021 & forward    "The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660-1669" [written 1660-69, first publn 1825] by Samuel Pepys, Esquire, FRS [1633-1703] The detailed private diary that Londoner Samuel Pepys kept is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period; it provides a combination of personal revelation and eye-witness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London (1665-66) and the Great Fire of London (Sept 1666). The first published edition of the diary, edited by Lord Braybrooke, was released in two volumes in 1825; a second transcription by Mynors Bright was published in 1875-79; Henry B. Wheatley produced a new edition in 1893-1899, revised in 1926, with extensive notes and an index. The complete, unexpurgated, and definitive edition, edited & transcribed by Robert Latham & William Matthews, was published in London, and by the University of California Press, Berkeley, in nine vol-umes, along with separate Companion and Index volumes, over the years 1970-83. Samuel Pepys entry at Wikipedia • 'Pepys Diary' entry at Wikipedia Latham in 3 volumes: Folio Society slipcover set [1997] out of print/used Latham in 3 volumes: Folio Society slipcover set [1996] out of print/used Transcription by Mynors Bright [1818-83], published in 1875-79 {2,315 pages} Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2011] for FREE ! The Samuel Pepys Club [est. 1903] is based in London, U.K. the daily 'Pepys Diary' weblog began in 2003 and has reached August 1667 (2020)    "The Diary of Samuel Pepys in Three Volumes (Everyman's Library, #53-55)" [1943] Edited by John Warrington or Richard Garnett Garnett version seems to be 1940s, Warrington version 1953 & 1967 3-volume set: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. hardcover set [1953] out of print/used Volume 1: Dent/Dutton hardcover [1943] out of print/used Volume 2: Dent/Dutton hardcover [1967] out of print/used Volume 3: Dutton Adult hardcover [10/53] out of print/used    "A Journal of The Plague Year: Being Observations or Memorials of The Most Remarkable Occurences, As Well Publick as Private, Which Happened In London During The Last Great Visitation In 1665 - Written By A Citizen Who Continued All The While In London" [1722] by Daniel Defoe [1660?-1731] Defoe was only five years old in 1665-66 when the Great Plague of London took place; the book was published under the initials H.F. and so is considered to be based on the journals of Defoe's uncle, Henry Foe, who, like 'H.F.', was a saddler who lived in the Whitechapel district of East London. Daniel Defoe entry at Wikipedia • book entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [5/2012] for FREE ! Kindle Edition from Digireads [2004 edition] for 99’ Kindle Edition from Start Publng/Simon & Schuster [4/2013] for $1.99 Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [3/2020] for 99’ Signet Classics 7x5 pb [8/60] out of print/used Alicia Editions 9x6 hardcover [6/2020] for $11.10 "A Journal of The Plague Year" [1886] with Introduction by Henry Morley [1822-94] Gale ECCO 9¼x6 hardcover [4/2018] for $25.95 available as free online etext at Internet Archive "A Journal of The Plague Year (Norton Critical Editions)" [1992] Edited by Paula R. Backscheider W.W. Norton & Co. 8½x5¼ pb [1/92] for $17.68 "A Journal of The Plague Year (Dover Thrift Editions)" [2001] Kindle Edition from Dover Publns [3/2012] for 60’ Dover Publns 8¼x5¼ pb [2/2012] for $5.00 "A Journal of The Plague Year (Penguin Classics)" [2003] Edited, Introduction & Notes by Cynthia Wall Penguin Classics 8x5¼ pb [8/2003] for $8.99 Penguin Classics 8x5¼ pb [8/2003] for $8.66 "Illustrated Journal of The Plague Year: 300th Anniversary Edition" [2020] SeaWolf Press 9x6 pb [4/2020] for $8.95    "La Peste ΰ Florence" [1836] by Gustave Flaubert French-language Kindle Edition from Arvensa Editions [2/2019] for $1.99 Les Editions de Passy French-language pb [6/2013] for $15.27    "The Bombay Plague: Being A History of The Progress of Plague In The Bombay Presidency From September 1896 to June 1899" [1900] by Capt. James Knighton Condon [1867-1919] Forgotten Books 9x6 pb [11/2017] for $16.57 Forgotten Books 9x6 hardcover [11/2018] for $30.55 available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive    "The Story of The Great Plague of The 20th Century" short stories [1903] by Fred Merrick White [1859-1935] this dystopian work is a collection of six loosely-connected stories describing calamities that beset Victorian London: "The Doom of London" was followed by "The Four Days' Night", "The Dust of Death", "The Four White Days", "The Invisible Force", "The River of Death", and "A Bubble Burst"; all six can be found in the Delphi and the e-artnow ebooks and in the other editions coded here Premium Collection: 14,990-page Kindle Edition from e-artnow [12/2016] for 99’ Collected Works: 21,619-page Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [9/2019] for $2.99 163-page Kindle Edition from Halcyon Press [1/2011] for 99’ 162-page Narcissus.ME 8¼x5¾ pb [4/2017] for $8.99 162-page CreateSpace 9x6 pb [9/2016] for $9.99 138-page LULU.com 9x6 hardcover [11/2016] for $34.00    "The Plague" novel [June 1947] by Albert Camus [1913-60], Translated by Stuart Gilbert Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [8/2012] for $9.99 Vintage mass pb [5/91] for $7.22 Vintage 8x5 pb [5/91] for $9.36 French-language original "La Peste" Gallimard mass pb [2/72] for $17.34 French & European Publns mass pb [1947] for $31.30 NTC/Contemporary mass pb [6/47] out of print/used    "The Black Death" [Guild Publng 1969] by Philip Ziegler Kindle Edition from New Word City [11/2016] for 99’ Harper Perennial Modern Classics 8x5¼ pb [4/2009] for $13.59 Sutton Pubng Ltd. pb [2003] out of print/used Pelican Books mass pb [1971] out of print/used The Folio Society hardcover [2001] out of print/used Bramley Books hardcover [1998] out of print/used    "The Blade Runner" [1974] by Alan E. Nourse [1928-92] This sci-fi novel is not related to the movies of 1982 & 2017 except that the movie people purchased the title from Nourse; this prior story is set in 1999, when America is decaying under right-wing/- fascist rule and medical care is illegal; young Billy is a 'blade runner' who delivers black market medical supplies to underground physicians and surgeons, while contending with corrupt police, a race riot, and a spreading mutant virus; mass pb cover by Karl Swanson • book entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Prologue Books [4/2013] for $3.99 Ballantine Books mass pb [1975] out of print/used D. McKay Co. hardcover [1974] out of print/used    "America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918" [1976, rev 2003] by Alfred W. Crosby listed in Los Angeles Times 100 Most Important Books of 1997 Cambridge Univ Press 2nd Edition 9x6 pb [9/2003] for $22.18 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [1/90] out of print/used '1918 Spanish flu pandemic' entry at Wikipedia    "Blade Runner (a movie)" [1979 novella] by Beat poet Wm. S. Burroughs [1914-97] Burroughs was paid to write a treatment (not screenplay) adaptation of a novel by Alan E. Nourse [1928-92] called "The Bladerunner". The makers of the "Blade Runner" [1982] movie paid Burroughs & Nourse for use of the term as the title of their adaptation of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" [1968] by Philip K. Dick [1928-82]. This prior story is set in 1999, when America is decaying under right-wing/fascist rule and medical care is illegal; young Billy is a 'blade runner' who delivers black market medical supplies to underground physicians and surgeons, while contending with corrupt police, a race riot, and a spreading mutant virus • book entry at Wikipedia Blue Wind Press 6¾x5 pb [5/86] for $8.95 Blue Wind Press pb [6/79] out of print/used    "The White Plague: A Novel By The Author of Dune" [1982] by Frank Herbert [1920-86] When his wife and children are killed by a terrorist bomb in Dublin, an Irish-American molecular biologist unleashes a genetically-carried plague Kindle Edition from Tor Books/Macmillan [2007 edition] for $7.99 Tor Books 8½x5½ pb [10/2007] for $22.45 Berkley 7x5 pb [12/83] out of print/60+ used G.P. Putnam's Sons 9¾x6½ hardcover [9/82] out of print/60+ used    "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases In A World Out of Balance" [1994] New York Times bestseller by medical journalist Laurie Garrett Author presents a history of epidemiology and skillfully illustrates the role of ecology, politics, and economics in worldwide healthcare, using numerous examples to emphasize the need for a global perspective in the management of disease – yellow fever, malaria, ebola, lassa fever, AIDS, legionnaires' disease, toxic shock syndrome – an in-depth discussion of the search for the causes of these and many other diseases. The tranquil days following the discovery of antibiotics are gone as drug-resistant strains of disease-causing organisms continue to reappear; the message is clear: we must drop our complacency and learn from past epidemics or face dire consequences Kindle Edition from FS&G/Macmillan [1994 edition] for $7.99 Penguin 9x6 pb [10/95] for $19.00 Farrar, Straus & Giroux 9½x6¾ hardcover [10/94] out of print/used    "Plagues of The Mind: The New Epidemic of False Knowledge" [1999] by Bruce S. Thornton this book was not coded here by mistake (because it has 'epidemic' in the title): it is very relevant because of all the misinformation still actively being spread about the Wuhan coronavirus . . . Kindle Edition from I.S.I. Books [5/2014] for $9.99 I.S.I. Books mass pb [4/2004] out of print/used I.S.I. Books 9x6 pb [8/2002] for $14.95 Intercollegiate Studies Institute 9½x6¼ hardcover [11/99] for $11.96    "In The Wake of The Plague: The Black Death and The World It Made" [2001] New York Times bestseller by Norman F. Cantor [1929-2004] Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [10/2014] for $12.99 Pocket Books mass pb [4/2002] out of print/used Pocket Books mass pb [2/2002] out of print/used Simon & Schuster/Perennial Library 8x5frac12 pb [4/2001] for $28.65 Free Press 8¾x5¾ hardcover [4/2001] for $47.50    "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" [2003] by Jim Murphy book won Sibert Medal & Newbery Honor awards Kindle Edition from Clarion Books [9/2014] for $10.84 Scholastic. Inc. pb [8/2003] out of print/used Scholastic. Inc. pb [8/2003] out of print/used Clarion Books Illustrated Edition 9½x7 hardcover [6/2003] for $19.52 'Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic' entry at Wikipedia    "The Great Influenza: The Story of The Deadliest Pandemic In History" [2004] New York Times bestseller by John M. Barry – with a new Afterword on avian flu Kindle Edition from Penguin Books [2005 edition] for $13.99 Penguin Books 8½x5½ pb [10/2005] for $12.08 Paw Prints 8½x5½ hardcover [5/2008] for $26.00 Viking Adult 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2004] out of print/used '1918 Spanish flu pandemic' entry at Wikipedia    "The Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year" [2004] by historian A. Lloyd Moote and microbiologist Dorothy C. Moote "Through letters and diaries, [the authors] offer fresh interpretations of key issues in the history of the Great Plague: how different communities understood and experienced the disease; how medical, reli-gious, and government bodies reacted; how well the social order held together; the economic and moral dilemmas people faced when debating whether to flee the city; and the nature of the material, social, and spiritual resources sustaining those who remained" Kindle Edition from Johns Hopkins Univ Press [2006 edition] for $21.19 {sic} Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $22.31 Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [3/2004] for $39.00    "Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of SARS" [2004] by Thomas Abraham Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 pb [5/2007] for $20.82 Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [11/2004] out of print/used '2002-2004 SARS pandemic' entry at Wikipedia    "The Black Death: The Great Mortality of 1348-1350: A Brief History With Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)" [2005] by John Aberth Kindle Edition from Bedford/St. Martin's [2nd edition 12/2016] for $13.99 Kindle Edition from Palgrave Macmillan [4/2016] for $69.42 {sic} Bedford/St. Martin's 2nd edition 8¼x5½ pb [12/2016] out of print/used Bedford/St. Martin's 8½x5½ pb [2/2005] out of print/used Palgrave US 8½x5½ hardcover [3/2005] out of print/used    "China Syndrome: The True Story of The 21st Century's First Great Epidemic" [2006] by Karl Taro Greenfeld Kindle Edition from HarperCollins e-books [2/2009] for $8.99 HarperPerennial 8x5¼ pb [1/2007] for $14.99 Harper 9x6 hardcover [3/2006] for $25.99 '2002-2004 SARS pandemic' entry at Wikipedia    "False Alarm: The Truth About The Epidemic of Fear" [2006] by Dr. Marc Siegel according to nationally renowned health commentator Dr. Marc Siegel, we live in an artificially-created culture of fear - this book is itself alarmist tripe Kindle Edition from Wiley [5/2008] for $10.99 Wiley 9x6 pb [9/2006] for $13.35 Wiley 9x6 hardcover [9/2006] for $28.99    "The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and The Modern World" [2006] by science writer Steven Johnson National bestseller and New York Times Notable Book; the story of physician John Snow's heroic efforts to contain the Summer 1854 cholera outbreak while also researching and defining its cause Kindle Edition from Riverhead Books [2006 edition] for $13.99 Riverhead Books 8¼x5½ pb [10/2007] for $11.29 Riverhead Books 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2006] for $19.19    "The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever - The Epidemic That Shaped Our History" [2006] by Molly Caldwell Crosby author provides details of the 1878 epidemic in Memphis and of the heroic 1903 U.S. Army expedition to Cuba to find a cure for yellow fever Kindle Edition from Berkley Books [2007 edition] for $4.99 Berkley Books 8¼x5½ pb [9/2007] for $13.98 Berkley Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2006] for $19.90 'Mississippi River Valley yellow fever epidemic' entry at Wikipedia    "Viruses, Plagues, & History: Past, Present and Future, Revised & Updated" [2009] by Michael B.A. Oldstone, MD Kindle Edition from Oxford Univ Press [11/2009] for $8.92 Oxford Univ Press 8x5½ pb [11/2009] for $15.07    "Pox: An American History" [2011] by award-winning historian Michael Willrich A riveting tale about the clash of modern medicine, civil liberties, and government power at the turn of the last century; many of the questions first raised by the Progressive-era smallpox anti-vaccination movement are still with us – how far should the government go to protect us from peril? what happens when the interests of public health collide with religious beliefs and personal conscience? – questions that clearly resonate powerfully today Kindle Edition from Penguin Books [3/2011] for $10.99 Penguin Books 8½x5½ pb [3/2012] for $19.00 Penguin Books pb [3/2012] for $33.38 Penguin Books 10x6¾ hardcover [3/2011] for $21.97 Penguin Books hardcover [3/2011] for $52.68 {sic}    "Viral: An International Thriller" novel [2012] by James Lilliefors 'a terrifying espionage thriller': the Mallory brothers discover a political mastermind's massive bioterrorist plot and enter into a complex game of wits with an enemy they can’t see, a brilliant, elusive tactician who believes that ends justify means Kindle Edition from Soho Crime [4/2012] for $7.99 Soho Crime 7½x5 pb [2/2013] for $15.95 Soho Crime 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2012] for $18.35    "The Great Plague: A People's History, Illustrated" [2014] by Evelyn Lord Kindle Edition from Yale Univ Press [4/2014] for $11.99 Yale Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2014] for $56.00    "Escape From New York" short story [New Yorker Magazine June 2015] by Zadie Smith “He could not get over how well he was handling the apocalypse so far.” read story online at New Yorker Magazine website included in "Grand Union: Stories" short story collection [2019] by Zadie Smith Kindle Edition from Penguin Press [10/2019] for $13.99 Penguin Books 8½x5½ pb [10/2020] for $14.19 Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2019] for $18.39    "Station Eleven: A Novel" [2015] by Emily St. John Mandel After civilization collapses from a virus pandemic, a troupe of actors roam the Great Lakes region to educate the scattered survivors on what has been lost; national bestseller, finalist for the National Book Award, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in U.K. • author's official website Kindle Edition from Vintage/Random House [9/2014] for $11.99 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [6/2015] for $11.29 Knopf 8½x6 hardcover [9/2014] for $25.95 "Estaciσn Once" [2015] Translated by Puerto Barruetabeρa Dνez Spanish-language Kindle Edition from Kailas Editorial, SL [11/2015] for $6.49 Kailas Editorial, SL Spanish-language 8x5½ pb [10/2016] for $18.39    "Diseases Without Borders: Boosting Your Immunity Against Infectious Diseases From The Flu and Measles To Tuberculosis" [2016] by Michael Savage ebook pamphlet presents solid information on the benefits of using specific nutrients to boost the human immune system which, in turn, increases the odds of surviving a viral infection as well as defending your body against many deadly diseases - 'potentially life-saving advice' 68-page Kindle Edition from Center Street [2/2016] for $2.99 not available in paperback or hardcover editions (2021)    "The Fever of 1721: The Epidemic That Revolutionized Medicine and American Politics" [2016] by Stephen Coss Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [3/2016] for $13.99 Simon & Schuster 8½x5½ pb [3/2017] out of print/SOLD OUT ! Simon & Schuster 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2016] for $20.72 'Boston smallpox outbreak' entry at Wikipedia    "Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America" [grades 5-12; 2016] by Gail Jarrow Kindle Edition from Calkins Creek [4/2016] for $11.99 Calkins Creek 10¼x8½ hardcover [5/2016] for $13.39    "Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs" [2017] New York Times bestseller by Michael T. Osterholm & Mark Olshaker 'high scientific drama, a chronicle of medical mystery & discovery, a reality check, and a practical plan of action; paperback & Kindle editions have New Preface on COVID-19 Kindle Edition from Little, Brown Spark/Hachette [3/2017] for $14.99 Little, Brown Spark 8¼x5½ pb [5/2020] for $14.79 Little, Brown Spark 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2017] for $16.79    "Pandemic (Extinction Files Book 1)" novel [2017] by A.G. 'Gerry' Riddle 'filled with real science and history' . . . 'takes you inside the CDC and WHO response to a global outbreak' Kindle Edition from Legion Books [5/2017] for $3.99 Legion Books 6x9 pb [5/2017] for $9.99 Legion Books 6x9 hardcover [5/2017] for $14.99    "Year of The Flu: A Doctor's True Story of 1918" [2017] by Millys Altman True tale of a newly-graduated medical doctor who accepts a job at the coal mining village of Revere in southwestern Pennsylvania 56-page Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [11/2017] for 99’ 54-page CreateSpace 8x5 pb [9/2017] for $5.99 '1918 Spanish flu pandemic' entry at Wikipedia    "Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed The World" [2017] by science journalist Laura Spinney Kindle Edition from PublicAffairs [9/2017] for $12.99 PublicAffairs 8¼x5½ pb [9/2018] for $13.72 PublicAffairs 9¾x6½ hardcover [9/2017] out of print/used    "The Junior Disease Detectives: Operation Outbreak" graphic novel [2018] from Centers for Disease Control (CDC/NCIRD) A work of fiction, but real public health threats and diseases are presented; intended to raise youth awareness of infectious diseases and of the public health risks that they pose graphic novel resource page free .PDF file direct download [8/2018] of 20.3MB    "Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts From The Greatest Medical Holocaust In Modern History" [2018] by Catharine Arnold a 'gripping narrative marking the 100th anniversary of an epidemic that altered world history' Kindle Edition from St. Martin's Press [8/2018] for $12.99 St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [5/2020] for $12.99 St. Martin's Press 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2018] for $20.99    "Superbugs: The Race To Stop An Epidemic - A Tale of Human Ingenuity" [2019] by Matt McCarthy, MD The story of cutting-edge science and the front lines of medicine and the race to find new treatments in the fight against the lethal bacteria known as 'superbugs' that have built up resistance to the life-saving drugs in our rapidly-dwindling arsenal - the results will impact nothing less than the future of humanity Kindle Edition from Avery/Penguin [5/2019] for $5.49 Avery 9x6 pb [6/2020] for $16.99 Avery 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2019] for $16.99    "Black Death At The Golden Gate: The Race To Save America From The Bubonic Plague, Illustrated" [2019] by David K. Randall Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton & Co. [5/2019] for $9.99 W.W. Norton & Co. 8¼x5½ pb [7/2020] for $11.99 W.W. 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