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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
502 books — 184 voters
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
135 books — 90 voters

A Night to Remember by Walter LordThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. BallardTitanic by Don LynchIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Maritime Disaster
169 books — 69 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
423 books — 61 voters

Steele's Battalion by John D. BeattyJamestown by Joyce CrawfordThe Great Fire by Jim MurphyDown the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871 by Susan Campbell BartolettiEmmi in the City by Salima Alikhan
Great Chicago Fire in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
17 books — 43 voters
Pandemic by Yvonne VentrescaLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferAshfall by Mike MullinEscaping the Giant Wave by Peg KehretThe Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Juvenile/Young Adult Natural Disaster Fiction/Non-Fiction
44 books — 39 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
197 books — 33 voters
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonThe Cay by Theodore TaylorHurricane Summer by Asha Ashanti BromfieldMarvelous Cornelius by Phil BildnerNinth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Hurricanes in Fiction
182 books — 30 voters

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
144 books — 28 voters
Last Things by Betta FerrendelliThe Big Wave by Pearl S. BuckEscaping the Giant Wave by Peg KehretThe Killing Sea by Richard LewisA Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Tsunamis in Fiction
101 books — 28 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
Pompeii by Robert HarrisA Day of Fire by Kate QuinnCurses and Smoke by Vicky Alvear ShecterVacation Under the Volcano by Mary Pope OsborneThe Secrets of Vesuvius by Caroline Lawrence
Pompeii
30 books — 25 voters

No Safe Harbour by Julie LawsonTides of Honour by Genevieve GrahamBarometer Rising by Hugh MacLennanWho's a Scaredy-Cat! by Joan PayzantThe Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Halifax Explosion Fiction
32 books — 23 voters
One by One by Ruth WareMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieAll Fall Down by Jean LittleBloomability by Sharon CreechThe Silent Land by Graham Joyce
Avalanches & Landslides in Fiction
117 books — 14 voters

Delly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Scar by Charlotte MoundlicA Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M. HolmesPearl's Marigolds For Grandpa by Jane Breskin ZalbenThe Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Bibliotherapy for Child Trauma
170 books — 13 voters
Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker RhodesUpside Down in the Middle of Nowhere by Julie T. LamanaHurricane Song by Paul VolponiAnother Kind of Hurricane by Tamara Ellis SmithBad Mojo by Eva Blackstone
Hurricane Katrina in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
19 books — 11 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
41 books — 11 voters
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa MoshfeghLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Guest by Emma ClineNew Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Unhinged Heroines
82 books — 11 voters

Fire on the Mountain by John N. Maclean3000 Degrees by Sean FlynnFirst In, Last Out by John SalkaAddicted to Life & Death by Janice BallengerLighting Fire by Leslie North
Firefighter Recommended Reading
17 books — 6 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

The House of the Lost on the Cape by Sachiko KashiwabaHorses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure by Hideo FurukawaStrong in the rain by Lucy BirminghamThe Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden by Heather Smithtsunami vs. the fukushima 50 by Lee Ann Roripaugh
Tohoku Earthquake
49 books — 4 voters
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri FinkTaste of Tremé by Todd-Michael St. PierreCreating the Big Easy by Anthony J. StanonisUntold by Lynette Norris WilkinsonSpirit World by Michael P. Smith
New Orleans History and Culture
138 books — 4 voters

An Essay Upon Wind; With Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peteurs... by Charles FoxAlbum D'Un Pessimiste by Alphonse RabbeThe Case Of The. Fox by William StanleyThe Dream-god, or A Singular Evolvement of Thought in Sleep by John CunninghamMelancholike Humours, in Verses of Diverse Natures by Nicholas Breton
Fascinating/Zero Rating
100 books — 3 voters
All We Have Left by Wendy MillsThe Donkey's Crusade by Jean MorrisCrossing Ebenezer Creek by Tonya BoldenChildren of the Vikings by Jonathan RumboldOutrun the Moon by Stacey Lee
Disasters & Tragedies through YA Historical Fiction
17 books — 2 voters

I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 by Lauren TarshisI Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 by Lauren TarshisI Survived The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 by Haus StudioI Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 by Lauren TarshisI Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
Scholastic: "I Survived" Collection
37 books — 2 voters
Fire by Stephen J. PyneWaterfall by Brian J. HudsonFlood by John WithingtonAir by Peter AdeyMoon by Edgar Williams
Reaktion Earth Series
10 books — 1 voter

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