Andrews, Michael. The Life that Lives on Man. New York: Taplinger, 1977.

Astor, Gerald. The Disease Detectives. New York: New American Library, 1984.

Barry, John. The Great Influenza: The epic story of the deadliest plague in history. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.

Bear, Greg. Darwin's Radio. New York: Ballatine Books, 1999.

Boudanis, David. The Secret House. New York: Touchstone, 1986.

Camus, Albert. The Plague. New York: Random House, 1948.

Cook, Robin. Outbreak. New York: Berkeley Publishing Group, 1988.
___________. Contagion. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1995.
___________. Chromosome 6. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1997.
___________. Toxin. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1998.
___________. Vector. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1999.
.___________. Critical. New York: G. P. Putnam, 2007.

Crichton, Michael. Andromeda Strain. New York: Knopf, 1969.
___________. Jurassic Park. New York: Knopf, 1990.

Crichton, Michael and Richard Preston. Micro. HarperCollins, 2011.

Cornwell, Patricia. Unnatural Exposure. New York: Berkley Books, 1997.

DeKruif, Paul. Microbe Hunters. New York: Harbrace, 1953.

Desowitz, Robert. The Thorn in the Starfish. New York: Norton, 1987.
___________. New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People. New York: Norton, 1981.

Dixon, Bernard. Magnificent Microbes. New York: Atheneum, 1976.
___________. Power Unseen: How Microbes Rule the World. New York: W. H. Freeman, 1994.

Garrett, Laurie. The Coming Plague. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994.

Harrison. Gordon. Mosquitoes, Malaria and Man; A History of the Hostilities Since 1880. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.

Iles, Greg. True Evil. New York: Pocket Books, 2008.

Johnson, Steven. The Ghost Map. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.

Karlen, Arno. Man and Microbes. New York: Putman Books. 1995.

Leavitt, Judith. Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health. Boston: Beason Press, 1966.

Ludlum, R. and R. Lynds. Covert One Novels such as The Hades Factor and The Ares Decision. New York: St. Matrin's Press. The hero in these thrillers is a microbiologist.

Margulis, Lynn. Early Life. Boston: Science Books International, 1982.
___________ and Dorion Sagan. Microcosmos. New York: Summit Books, 1986.

McCormick, Joseph and Susan Fisher-Hoch. Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC. Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1996.

McNeill, William. Plagues and Peoples. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, 1976.

Miller, Judith, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad. Germs: Biological weapons and America's secret war. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

O'Hern, Elizabeth M. Profiles of Women Scientists. Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, 1985. Features 20 microbiologists.

Pendergrast, M. Inside the Outbreaks: The elite medical detectives of the epidemic intelligence service. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Press, 2010.

Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone. New York: Random House, 1994.
___________. The Cobra Event. New York: Random House, 1997.

Rhodes, Richard. Deadly Feasts. New York: Touchstone.

Rosebury, Theodor. Life on Man. New York: Viking Press, 1969.

Roueché, Berton. The Medical Detectives, 2 vols. New York: Truman Talley, 1984. Other true stories of medical detection by Roueché are The Orange Man, Eleven Blue Men, and Annals of Epidemiology.

Slaughter, Frank G. Plague Ship. New York: Pocket Books, 1976.

Swigart, Rob. Toxin. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Swigart's books are mystery-thrillers with a microbiologist as the protagonist.
___________. Vector. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.

Thomas, Lewis. The Youngest Science. New York: Bantam Books, 1983.
___________. The Medusa and the Snail. New York: Viking Press, 1979.
___________. The Lives of a Cell. New York: Viking Press, 1974.

Thompson, Morton. The Cry and The Covenant. New York: Doubleday, 1949. Fictional biography of Semmelweis.

Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice, and History. New York: Bantom Books, 1934.