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Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Night to Remember by Walter LordAlive by Piers Paul Read
Non-fiction Disaster Books
321 books — 327 voters
Gone by Michael GrantLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferThe Stand by Stephen KingThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAshfall by Mike Mullin
Apocalypse Challenge
110 books — 187 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBrokeback Mountain by Annie ProulxThe Magic Mountain by Thomas MannInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerGo Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Mountains
742 books — 115 voters
Pachinko by Min Jin LeeMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesAngels & Demons by Dan Brown
52 Book Club 2025: #49 Set In A Country With An Active Volcano
252 books — 114 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
131 books — 88 voters
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerKrakatoa by Simon WinchesterEruption by Michael CrichtonThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckThe Love Haters by Katherine Center
The 52 Book Club 2026: #9 - Featuring A Natural Disaster
139 books — 72 voters

Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Bitter Past by Bruce BorgosHeidi by Johanna SpyriMan Hunt by Vanessa ValeInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Mountains on the Cover
410 books — 65 voters
Krakatoa by Simon WinchesterPompeii by Robert HarrisThe Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-LyttonHawaii by James A. MichenerCongo by Michael Crichton
Earthquake, Volcano and Tsunami
128 books — 55 voters

Krakatoa by Simon WinchesterA Day of Fire by Kate QuinnPompeii by Alex ButterworthPompeii by Robert HarrisEruption by Harry Turtledove
Eruptions: Volcanic Activity
50 books — 17 voters
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferDust by Charles PellegrinoRobopocalypse by Daniel H. WilsonThe Strain by Guillermo del ToroAfter the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
Point of Disaster Apocalyptic Fiction
56 books — 15 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
Going Home by A. AmericanFrontier Justice by Arthur T. BradleyThe Sanders Saga by N.C. ReedCracked Earth by Deborah D. MooreOne Second After by William R. Forstchen
Post-Apocalyptic & Prepper Fiction
21 books — 8 voters

Krakatoa by Simon WinchesterIsland on Fire by Alexandra WitzeThe Secrets of Vesuvius by Caroline LawrenceRing of Fire by Bethany D. Rinard HingaEruption by Steve Olson
Volcanoes and Volcanology
97 books — 8 voters
Sunstruck by Melissa BellisThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverThe Last Train to Key West by Chanel CleetonFrangipani by Célestine Hitiura VaiteThe Lost City of Z by David Grann
Summer or Winter Book Display - Warm Books!
98 books — 8 voters

Isaac's Storm by Erik LarsonThe Prometheus Crisis by Thomas N. ScortiaKrakatoa by Simon WinchesterDead Wake by Erik LarsonThe Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia
Disaster And Catastrophe Literature
48 books — 7 voters
The Origin of Continents and Oceans by Alfred WegenerSnowball Earth by Gabrielle WalkerEarthquake! by Gloria D. MiklowitzWritten in Stone by Chet RaymoKrakatoa by Simon Winchester
Plate Tectonics
8 books — 5 voters

Where the Waters Turn Black by Benedict PatrickThe Story of Moana by Kari SutherlandThe Jade Hook by Awanui HamonThe Star-Crossed Woman by Maribelle CormackOcean Light by Nalini Singh
SF & F Atlas - Pacific Islands
17 books — 5 voters
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierThe Huntress of Thornbeck Forest by Melanie DickersonDead on the Delta by Stacey JaySpectred Isle by K.J. CharlesThe Heidelberg Ghost by Nickie Cochran
Romances with Geography in the Title
117 books — 5 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBanner in the Sky by James Ramsey UllmanMystery of the Fleeing Girl by Showell StylesThe Mountain of Adventure by Enid BlytonPeril in the Pennines by Winifred Finlay
Mountaineering in Juvenile Fiction
66 books — 5 voters
Heteromorph by Wolfgang GrulkeMagnetic Orientation in Animals by Roswitha WiltschkoHerbal Abortion by Uni M. TiamatThe Strange Death of British Birdsong by Michael WaterhouseMimicry in Plants and Animals by Wolfgang Wickler
-Nature Is History-
99 books — 3 voters

Ashfall by Mike MullinQuake by Lou CadleA Wrinkle in the Skin by John ChristopherLocked Rooms by Laurie R. KingRichter 10 by Arthur C. Clarke
Quake and Shake! Earthquakes in Fiction Novels!
15 books — 3 voters
Triangle by David von DrehleThe Other Side of Nothing by Hilda ValentineAlive by Piers Paul ReadOdin, Dog Hero of the Fires by Emma Bland SmithSalt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
My Top Picks for True Disaster Stories
15 books — 2 voters

Go Greenie! Are You Eating Something Red? by Ryan Sias
Preschool-'V'
1 book — 1 voter

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