Ten books that offer lessons from past pandemics

What we don't know about the threat posed by COVID-19 vastly exceeds what we do. The works of fiction and non-fiction provide us a set of tools, both existential and intellectual, for helping us face this current health crisis. Some works also create a historical record of those who have risen above crises of this nature - as well as those, who conspicuously have not. See this article from the Globe and Mail on ten books that offer lessons from past pandemics including Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City (edited by Harris Ali and Roger Keil) which has also been made available for free by the publisher here.