Fiction
Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939) by Katherine Ann Porter is a short novel set during the influenza pandemic of 1918, which killed five times as many Americans as did World War I. Its main character, Miranda, is a young reporter who falls in love with a soldier; the book's fever-dream style captures the experience of the disease.
The Andromeda Strain (1969) by Michael Crichton is a bestselling techno-thriller that begins when a military satellite crashes to earth and releases an extraterrestrial organism that kills almost everyone in a nearby small town. Then things get bad.
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) by Gabriel García Márquez is the great Colombian author's beguiling tale of a 50-year courtship, in which lovesickness is as debilitating and stubborn as disease.
The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood, which includes Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009) and MaddAddam (2013), is a masterwork of speculative fiction by the author of The Handmaid's Tale. Set in a near future in which genetic engineering causes a plague that almost destroys humanity, it's savagely satirical, thrilling and moving.
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy is a bleak, beautifully written, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set after an unspecified extinction event has wiped out most of humanity. An unnamed man and boy travel on foot toward a southern sea, fending off cannibals and despair.
Nemesis (2010) by Philip Roth is the author's 31st and last novel, a sorrowful story set in Newark, N.J., in 1944, as the United States is in the grip of the polio epidemic that killed and disabled thousands of children.
 
Station Eleven (2014) by Emily St. John Mandel is a bestselling novel about a group of actors and musicians traveling through the Great Lakes region in future years after a mysterious pandemic called the Georgian influenza has killed almost everyone.
Nonfiction
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1995) by Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's clear-eyed look at how rapidly the modern world has changed the nature of disease, how important preparedness is and how endangered we are without it.
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (2013) by David Quammen is the great science writer's fascinating look at zoonotic diseases, such as AIDS and Ebola (and now coronavirus), that jump from animal species to ours.
8. Which book is about a sad story of children who were killed or disabled?
A. Pale Horse, Pale Rider B. Love in the Time of Cholera
C. The Andromeda Strain D. Nemesis
9. Which book is Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ?
A. Pale Horse, Pale Rider B. The Coming Plague
C. Station Eleven D. The Road
10. How many books refer to influenza?
A Only one B Two C Three D More than three
11. Which book refers to diseases that jump from animal species to ours?
A. Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
B. The Coming Plague
C. Love in the Time of Cholera
D. The MaddAddam Trilogy
    keys 8-11DDBA