Disasters


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
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
The Johnstown Flood
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 Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
A Night to Remember
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
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
427 books — 63 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
200 books — 37 voters


Sequoia Nagamatsu
I've always been proud of how much my daughter cared about the world. After school she’d study the news, comb the internet for disasters, wars and hate and injustice, write it all down in these color-coded journals. Once, I asked her what she was doing, and she said she was just trying to keep track of it all because it didn’t seem like anybody else noticed or cared that we kept making the same mistakes, that hate in a neighborhood or injustice in a state ran like poison through veins, until ano ...more
Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

Mehmet Murat ildan
Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!
Mehmet Murat ildan

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