Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patient Zero | 2021 | Lydia Kang | Buy |
| 2 | Pseudoscience | 2025 | Lydia Kang | Buy |
These are Lydia Kang’s non-fiction books, separate from her Quackery book (listed under its own series). Kang is a practicing internal medicine physician, and her non-fiction work applies that expertise to the history of disease and scientific misinformation.
Patient Zero (2021) explores the history of contagious diseases by tracing their origins to the first known carriers. Pseudoscience (2025) looks at how false scientific claims have persisted throughout history and continue to mislead people today. Both books make complex medical topics accessible to general readers, combining historical research with Kang’s firsthand understanding of how medicine actually works.