Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Epidemics and public health

Medicine and Biology

Books on plagues, pandemics, vaccines, tropical disease, global health programmes and the tobacco fight.

Books 35Experts 3Recommenders 15

Start here

  1. Plagues and PeoplesWilliam H. McNeill, 1976
  2. Smoke ScreenPhilip J. Hilts, 1996
  3. Golden HolocaustRobert N. Proctor, 2011
  4. Dirt and DiseaseNaomi Rogers, 1992
  5. The Hot ZoneRichard Preston, 1994
Plagues and PeoplesPlagues and Peoples
T2 Plagues and Peoples
William H. McNeill · 1976
Open LibraryGoodreads

How plague, cholera, malaria and smallpox shaped history.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Paul Graham

Smoke ScreenSmoke Screen
T3 Smoke Screen
Philip J. Hilts · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

The truth behind the tobacco industry's cover-up.

Golden HolocaustGolden Holocaust
T3 Golden Holocaust
Robert N. Proctor · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

How tobacco chemists engineered cigarettes, drawn from the industry's own documents.

Dirt and DiseaseDirt and Disease
T4 Dirt and Disease
Naomi Rogers · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

The Hot ZoneThe Hot Zone
T4 The Hot Zone
Richard Preston · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

Investigations into Ebola and other African viruses, their strains and outbreaks.

Recommended by: Safi Bahcall, Sophie Bakalar

FluFlu
T4 Flu
Gina Kolata · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan

Tropical Infectious DiseasesTropical Infectious Diseases
T4 Tropical Infectious Diseases
Richard L. Guerrant · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Mountains Beyond MountainsMountains Beyond Mountains
T4 Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

Paul Farmer, the doctor who co-founded Partners In Health, treating the poor.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates, Daniel Burka and 2 others

The Great InfluenzaThe Great Influenza
T4 The Great Influenza
John M. Barry · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1918 flu: how it spread from a Kansas army camp and killed up to 100 million.

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Balaji S. Srinivasan

PolioPolio
T4 Polio
David M. Oshinsky · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

The American fear of polio and the race for a cure, from the March of Dimes to Salk.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Priorities in HealthPriorities in Health
T4 Priorities in Health
Dean T. Jamison · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

The main findings on disease-control priorities for developing countries.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most TeThe Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
T4 The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Steven Johnson · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Making of a Tropical DiseaseThe Making of a Tropical Disease
T4 The Making of a Tropical Disease
Randall M. Packard · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

VaccineVaccine
T4 Vaccine
Arthur Allen · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

The FeverThe Fever
T4 The Fever
Sonia Shah · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

House on FireHouse on Fire
T4 House on Fire
William H. Foege · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
T4 The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
Nathan Wolfe · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

On ImmunityOn Immunity
T4 On Immunity
Eula Biss · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg

Epic Measures
T4 Epic Measures
Jeremy N. Smith · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Patrick Collison

Pale RiderPale Rider
T4 Pale Rider
Laura Spinney · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

The 1918 Spanish flu, which killed 50 to 100 million, through history and science.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan

Outbreak CultureOutbreak Culture
T4 Outbreak Culture
Pardis Sabeti · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why key information failed to reach doctors in West Africa's Ebola epidemic.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Pandemic 1918Pandemic 1918
T4 Pandemic 1918
Catharine Arnold · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Guy Spier

Plagues and the Paradox of ProgressPlagues and the Paradox of Progress
T4 Plagues and the Paradox of Progress
Thomas J. Bollyky · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg

The MosquitoThe Mosquito
T4 The Mosquito
Timothy C. Winegard · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

WellWell
T4 Well
Sandro Galea · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Arianna Huffington

A Shot to Save the WorldA Shot to Save the World
T4 A Shot to Save the World
Gregory Zuckerman · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

The PremonitionThe Premonition
T4 The Premonition
Michael Lewis · 2021
Open LibraryGoodreads
The Big FailThe Big Fail
T4 The Big Fail
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera · 2023
Open LibraryGoodreads
A Civil ActionA Civil Action
T4 A Civil Action
Jonathan Harr
Goodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the LaBiohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
T4 Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World--Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

EradicationEradication
T4 Eradication
Nancy Leys Stepan
Goodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Everything Is TuberculosisEverything Is Tuberculosis
T4 Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green
Goodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Global Health
T4 Global Health
Ann Lindstrand
Goodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

Jim GrantJim Grant
T4 Jim Grant
Peter Adamson
Goodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

SmallpoxSmallpox
T4 Smallpox
D.A. Henderson
Goodreads

Recommended by: Bill Gates

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