📚 Plague

Books with plague on their catalogue record, first published between 1577 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject plague in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,430 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Black Death	Philip Ziegler	1969	34
	History of the Plague in London	Daniel Defoe	1908	20
	The coming plague	Laurie Garrett	1994	14
	The black death	Johannes Nohl	1924	12
	Partisan warfare	Otto Heilbrunn	1962	12
	The plague in India, 1896, 1897	R. Nathan	1898	9
	The Great Mortality	John Kelly	2005	9
	The Plague and the Fire	James Leasor	1961	8
	Horror of the Bubonic Plague	Claire Throp	2017	7
	The wonderful year [etc.] and selected writings	Thomas Dekker	1967	6
	The plague at Marseilles consider'd	Richard Bradley	1721	5
	Morový sloup	Jaroslav Seifert	1973	5
	Plague ports	Myron J. Echenberg	2007	5
	Die Pest in Wien	Hilde Schmölzer	1985	4
	In the Wake of the Plague	Norman F. Cantor	2001	4
	Sweet Tooth	Jeff Lemire	2010	4
	The Plague	Steven G. Kellman	1993	3
	One Flea Spare	Naomi Wallace	1997	3
	Images of Plague and Pestilence	Christine M. Boeckl	2000	3
	Plague	Edward Marriott	2003	3
	Plague	Wendy Orent	2004	3
	The plague in the early Medieval Near East	Lawrence I. Conrad	1981	2
	The Black death	Rosemary Horrox	1994	2
	In the Wake of the Plague	Norman Cantor	2002	2
	The Plague and Medicine in the Middle Ages (World Almanac Library of the Middle Ages)	Fiona MacDonald	2005	2
	Dve libri di Fabritio Boido Trotto ... del modo di cognoscere, preservarsi, et cvrarsi, della febbre pestilente.	Fabritio Boido	1577	1
	The Black Death	Johannes Nohl	1961	1
	Life during the black death	Dunn, John M.	2000	1
	Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire	William Rosen	2008	1
	The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt	Michael G. Vann	2018	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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