Disaster

Fiction or Non-Fiction related to Natural Disaster (Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Hurricanes) or other catastrophic events such as plagues and societal collapse. Usually focuses on small or large groups of people.

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
The Johnstown Flood
A Night to Remember
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
The Children's Blizzard
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Zeitoun
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David WyssPandora by Joshua GrantThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James Faro
Fictitious Shipwrecks
171 books — 74 voters
Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke RobsonThe Johnstown Flood by David McCulloughThe Drowned Cities by Paolo BacigalupiFloodland by Marcus SedgwickLove in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
Drowning Towns
424 books — 62 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas AdamsThe Story of My Life by Helen KellerThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootIf Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck
This is the.......life
1,189 books — 79 voters

Chuck Palahniuk
You have to jump into disaster with both feet.
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Charles Bukowski
darkness falls upon Humanity and faces become terrible things that wanted more than there was. all our days are marked with unexpected affronts - some disastrous, others less so but the process is wearing and continuous. attrition rules. most give way leaving empty spaces where people should be. and now as we ready to self-destruct there is very little left to kill which makes the tragedy less and more much much more.
Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

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