Start with high-confidence illness & injury books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
The Big One
Michael T. Osterholm PhD MPH, Mark Olshaker
Braced
Alyson Gerber
The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet
Jake Maia Arlow
History Smashers: Plagues and Pandemics
Kate Messner, Falynn Koch
Booster Shots
Adam Ratner MD MPH, Adam Ratner
Wonder: Illustrated Edition
R. J. Palacio
Crisis Averted
Caitlin Rivers PhD, Caitlin Rivers
Dancing in the Storm
Amie Darnell Specht, Shannon Hitchcock
The Great Shadow
Susan Wise Bauer
Smile: a Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Dusti Bowling
The Truth About Contagion
Thomas S. Cowan, Sally Fallon Morell
Maria and the Plague
Natasha Bacchus-Buschkiel, Francesca Ficorilli
Plague-busters!
Lindsey Fitzharris, Adrian Teal
Patient Zero
Marilee Peters
