Recs if you like The White Plague...

forced into unending sleep or perilous insomnia, repeating tedious daily routines until your body rots, watching as your skin starts to glow or your hands sprout scales - these novels feature illnesses that are far from typical

if you enjoyed / find yourself enjoying my strange plagues quest, you’ll find even more suggestions for further reading within the niche here!!!

Fiction (and some non-fiction) across genres featuring plagues, poisons, palace physicians, healers, and pre-antibiotic chaos. If it involves herbs, plagues, questionable remedies, court intrigue, or a morally complex healer experimenting in the corner, I want it.

Oh no! All the men turned into zombies! Or all the women fell into an eternal slumber! Or other similar sex & gender-based afflictions!

These stories range from feminist to sexist and from trans-inclusive to TERFy; reader beware. Inclusion on the list is not an endorsement.