How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDSModern · Nonfiction, History, Science
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
2016 · 640 pages · Nonfiction
59
Modern
★ 4.44 on Goodreads · 5K ratings
≈ 16 hours to read · about 5 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Baillie Gifford Prize winner (2017). 4.44★ from 5K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
59Must-Read Score
- Critics44 out of 100 · counts 35%+18
- Readers70 out of 100 · counts 50%+40
- Buzz5 out of 100 · counts 15%+1
Where it ranks
- #22 of the 100 science and ideas books we rank
- #73 of the 220 history books we rank
- #102 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #298 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Baillie Gifford Prize winner (2017)
Reads as
True story, Thought-provoking
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