There are two non-fiction books that haunt me in the pandemic. The first is The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in History (originally subtitled The Epic Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History) by John M. Barry, about the 1918-1920 Spanish Flu pandemic.
It has made me feel particularly Cassandra-like in our own pandemic, because we absolutely know how pandemics work, how to manage them, and what goes wrong when we don't. 1/n