Books recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC (by Joseph B McCormick). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- Virus: An Illustrated Guide to 101 Incredible Microbes (by Marilyn J. Roossinck). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America: (by Jon L. Dunn). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- A Planet of Viruses: (by Carl Zimmer). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World–Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It (by Ken Alibek). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (by David Quammen). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History (by Catharine Arnold). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen , Balaji Srinivasan
- Microbe Hunters: (by Paul de Kruif). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (by Laurie Garrett). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- The Eleventh Plague: The Politics of Biological and Chemical Warfare (by Leonard A. Cole). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- Beating Back the Devil: (by Maryn McKenna). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen
- Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It (by Gina Kolata). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen , Balaji Srinivasan
- The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (by Richard Preston). Recommended by Jonathan Eisen , Safi Bahcall