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A Plague on Books - Best Literary Works About Plague

A short selection of classic works of fiction in which outbursts of plague or cholera play a significant part. I have not yet read all of these, but would like to.
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The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
1
Albert Camus
The Betrothed (Alessandro Manzoni)
The Betrothed
2
Alessandro Manzoni
Summer (Ali Smith)
Summer
3
Ali Smith
The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Masque of the Red Death
4
Edgar Allan Poe
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Secret Garden
5
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
6
Gabriel García Márquez
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
7
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Scarlet Plague (Jack London)
The Scarlet Plague
8
Jack London
Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
Day of the Triffids
9
John Wyndham
The Last Man (Mary Shelley)
The Last Man
10
Mary Shelley
I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
I Am Legend
11
Richard Matheson
Arrowsmith (Sinclair Lewis)
Arrowsmith
12
Sinclair Lewis
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Oedipus Rex
13
Sophocles
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Death in Venice
14
Thomas Mann
The Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham)
The Painted Veil
15
W. Somerset Maugham
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