The Big Books of Fall
Genres

Disasters


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
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
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Lists

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumThe Help by Kathryn StockettTornado by Betsy ByarsThe Stormchasers by Jenna BlumPromise by Minrose Gwin
Tornadoes in Fiction
145 books — 29 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
45 books — 14 voters

The History of Bees by Maja LundeMarine Pollution by Judith S. WeisThe Book of Dave by Will SelfWild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghyThe Last Children of Tokyo by Yōko Tawada
Fictional Apocalypses: The World's End From Nature Part II
19 books — 2 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
521 books — 192 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
432 books — 65 voters
Must I Go by Yiyun LiNever Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerPositivity Warrior by Jim SoreboLearn to Live Forward by Chidi IwuchukwuThe Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition VI
71 books — 4 voters

Quotes Tagged “Disasters”

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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Vera Nazarian
“ Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town! ...more ”
― Vera Nazarian
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Videos Tagged “Disasters”

I Wish I Never Met You by Denise N. Wheatley
I Wish I Never Met You by Denise N. Wheatley
My First Experience with Fire
My First Experience with Fire
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