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definityonApr 10, 2015

Some I've recently finished...

Epidemiology-focused

- Virus Hunter - C.J. Peters with Mark Olshaker

- Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science - Richard Preston

- Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries - Molly Caldwell Crosby

- The Woman With a Worm in Her Head and Other True Stories of Infectious Disease - Pamela Nagami

General good nonfiction

- Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin - Norah Vincent

- Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb - Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

- Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism - Ron Suskind

Fiction

- Funny Once - short story collection by Antonya Nelson (sad, weird, but very good)

- It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini

- Backward Compatible - Sarah Daltry

Also definitely recommend the Magic 2.0 trilogy by Scott Meyer (starting with Off to Be the Wizard).

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