To help keep our customers informed, we’ve compiled this list of print and electronic books in English, Chinese, and Spanish about the history of pandemics and the current COVID-19 crisis.
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Print Books for Adults
- The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers by Dr. Ali S. Khan with William Patrick
- Pandemic: How Climate, the Environment, and Superbugs Increase the Risk by Connie Goldsmith
- Pandemic: The Terrifying Threat of the New Killer Plagues by Pete Moore
- Understanding Coronavirus (Understanding Life) by Raul Rabadan *
* not available at Queens Public Library
eBooks for Adults
- 7 Keys to Staying Sane During the COVID-19 Crisis by Meg Meeker
- Coping with Coronavirus: How to Stay Calm and Protect Your Mental Health by Brendan Kelly
- COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One by Debora MacKenzie
- COVID-19: Everything You Need to Know about the Corona Virus and the Race for the Vaccine by Michael Mosley
- Engineering Solutions for Epidemics and Pandemics: Preparing for Disaster by Kara Rogers
- How to Survive a Pandemic by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM
- Pandemics: Deadly Disease Outbreaks by Michelle Denton
- The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris by Mark Honigsbaum
eBooks in Spanish for Adults
- Aspectos Psicológicos Del COVID-19 by Juan Moisés de la Serna
- Coronavirus Covid-19 by Bruno Del Medico
- Coronavirus Covid-19 2da Edición actualizada (Abril 2020) by Bruno Del Medico
- La incidencia de la COVID-19 en los arrendamientos urbanos by Luis Martín Contreras
- La solución Nash: La reactivación económica tras el COVID-19 by Fernando Trías de Bes
- No tocar: Ciencia contra la desinformación en la pandemia de COVID-19 by Deborah García Bello
- Padre Nuestro 2020: Orar con Jesús antes, en y después del COVID-19 by Eduardo González Oropeza
- Pandemia: Una historia desde la Gripe Española hasta el coronavirus Covid-19 by Mónica Müller
eBooks in Chinese for Adults
- 《新型冠状病毒感染防护》第二版 by 编委会
- 新型冠状病毒感染的肺炎预防手册 by 浙江省疾病预防控制中心
- 新型冠状病毒感染的肺炎公众预防指南 by 河北省疾病预防控制中心
- 新型冠状病毒肺炎预防手册 by 周旺
- 新型冠状病毒感染的肺炎心理防护指南 by 石家庄市第八医院; 石家庄市精神卫生中心
Books to Read with Children
- Amelia Bedelia Under the Weather by Herman Parish and Lynne Avril
- Coronavirus: A Book for Children by Elizabeth Jenner, Kate Wilson, Nia Roberts, and Axel Scheffler
- Germs Are Not For Sharing by Elizabeth Verdick
- Keep It Clean: Germ Free by Cecilia Minden (eBook)
- A Kids Book About COVID-19 by Malia Jones (free online)
- Kids Want to Know: What Is COVID-19? by Holly Hartman (free online)
- My Body Needs to Be Clean by Jenna Lee Gleisner (eBook)
- The Princess in Black and the Case of the Coronavirus by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and LeUyen Pham (free online)
- A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Phillip C. Stead and Rebecca E. Stead
- We’re Going to Be O.K. by Dr. Jade Ebony Hilton and Dr. Leigh-Ann Webb (free online)
