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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
A Night to Remember by Walter LordTitanic by Don LynchThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. BallardThe Night Lives On by Walter LordThe Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
Best Titanic Books
168 books — 229 voters

The Martian by Andy WeirAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Books About Being Trapped or Stranded
571 books — 219 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

Voyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteThe Girl Who Came Home by Hazel GaynorThe Second Mrs. Astor by Shana AbeFateful by Claudia GrayRaise the Titanic! by Clive Cussler
Fiction about the Titanic
135 books — 182 voters
Love You Forever by Robert MunschLove on the Brain by Ali HazelwoodLullaby of Love by Rebecca WinningThe Spanish Love Deception by Elena ArmasThe Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
All you need is..........Love
1,341 books — 96 voters

The Golden Compass by Philip PullmanHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien1984 by George OrwellThrall by Julie Mannino
Alternative Earth
218 books — 88 voters
Blackout by Connie WillisThe Raiders and the Cross by Patrick LarsimontLetters to the Lost by Iona GreyAll Clear by Connie WillisThe English Agent by Clare Harvey
The Blitz: Fiction & Non-Fiction
189 books — 82 voters

One Second After by William R. ForstchenGoing Home by A. AmericanOne Year After by William R. Forstchen77 Days in September by Ray GorhamAshes by Ilsa J. Bick
Fiction: Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) & Solar Flare/Storms
114 books — 78 voters
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerFive Days at Memorial by Sheri FinkColumbine by Dave CullenDead Wake by Erik LarsonIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Disasters, Tragedies, and Accidents
201 books — 77 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
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David WyssPandora by Joshua GrantThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James Faro
Fictitious Shipwrecks
147 books — 71 voters

Life of Pi by Yann MartelLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas AdamsThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Story of My Life by Helen KellerIf Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits? by Erma Bombeck
This is the.......life
1,189 books — 63 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

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeHatchet by Gary PaulsenElderberries by Alicia BayerBy the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Best How To Survive Books
84 books — 41 voters
Bhutan Travelog Edition 2 by Joni HerisonLamb by Christopher MooreQueen of Scots by John GuyHyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshFuriously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Subtitle
542 books — 38 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
Alive by Piers Paul ReadMiracle in the Andes by Nando ParradoFlight 232 by Laurence GonzalesThe Mystery of Flight 427 by Bill AdairLost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff
Planes - accidents
79 books — 31 voters

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. PirsigPeanuts by Charles M. SchulzThe Secret Art of Dr. Seuss by Dr. SeussMythology by Alex RossThe Art of Racing in the Rain by Dave Manak
The Art of.........
457 books — 30 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

War Horse by Michael MorpurgoIsabel by Carolyn MeyerThe Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow by Ann RinaldiNumber the Stars by Lois LowryThe Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Historical Fiction for Children
123 books — 26 voters
No Safe Harbour by Julie LawsonTides of Honour by Genevieve GrahamBarometer Rising by Hugh MacLennanWho's a Scaredy-Cat! by Joan PayzantThe Birth House by Ami McKay
Halifax Explosion Fiction
31 books — 21 voters

Skinhead... The Life I Chose by Spike PittNight by Elie WieselThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleCapital Punishment by Dougie BrimsonThe Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton
Disturbing Non-Fiction
55 books — 15 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 — 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 Midnight Watch by David DyerSalt to the Sea by Ruta SepetysForget Me Not by Sue LawsonThe Lifeboat Clique by Kathy ParksThe Light In The Darkness by Carla Robinson
Life Ring - ship ahoy
12 books — 6 voters

Jamestown by Joyce CrawfordThe Great Fire by Jim MurphyDown the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871 by Susan Campbell BartolettiEmmi in the City by Salima AlikhanI Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by Cassie Anderson
Great Chicago Fire in YA & Middle Grade Fiction
16 books — 6 voters
Dark Emu by Bruce PascoeThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinBorder Walls Gone Green by John HultgrenThe Price of Thirst by Karen PiperThe Closing Circle by Barry Commoner
Radical reads to understand capitalism's ecological disaster
47 books — 3 voters

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. JacobsAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrCursed Bunny by Bora ChungSnow White by Jacob GrimmHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Cursed Items, Artifacts of Doom and Fetishes in Fiction Part I
100 books — 1 voter
Jurassic Park by Michael CrichtonFlashforward by Robert J. SawyerThe Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. WellsThe Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-GarciaFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Weird Science, Mad Science and Bad Science in Fiction Part I
100 books — 1 voter

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