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Disasters Books

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Johnstown Flood
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
A Night to Remember
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
The Children's Blizzard
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
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Lists

The Tsunami Countdown by Boyd MorrisonLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferGirls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke RobsonBlind Thrust by Samuel MarquisErupt by Lou Cadle
Natural Disaster Fiction
140 books — 93 voters
127 Hours by Aron RalstonNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroLife of Pi by Yann MartelI Am Her... by Sarah Ann WalkerAll Who Believed by Tamara Mathieu
Phew! It Didn't Happen to Me.
55 books — 26 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerNight by Elie WieselIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Nonfiction Books About Horrifying Events
503 books — 185 voters
The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls WilderPompeii by Robert HarrisThe Year Without Summer by Guinevere GlasfurdThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahThe Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Natural Disasters in Historical Fiction
44 books — 13 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahThe Dry by Jane HarperDry by Neal ShustermanDune by Frank Herbert
Drought in Fiction
198 books — 34 voters
Promises in the Attic by Elisabeth Hamilton FriermoodNinth Ward by Jewell Parker RhodesThree Rivers Rising by Jame RichardsThe Great Gale by Hester BurtonThe Town That Drowned by Riel Nason
Floods in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
12 books — 5 voters

Quotes Tagged “Disasters”

Svetlana Alexievich
“ Is there anything more frightening than people? ”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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Steven Magee
“ The August 2023 Maui wildfires were among the most devastating disasters to hit the Hawaiian islands. ”
― Steven Magee
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