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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
521 books — 190 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
138 books — 93 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
175 books — 72 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
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
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
189 books — 33 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
102 books — 29 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

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
31 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 Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Halifax Explosion Fiction
34 books — 25 voters
My Mystical Path by Donna Shin-WardDelly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Scar by Charlotte MoundlicA Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M. HolmesPearl's Marigolds For Grandpa by Jane Breskin Zalben
Bibliotherapy for Child Trauma
181 books — 24 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
86 books — 16 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

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
44 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
20 books — 12 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
17 books — 7 voters
Positivity Warrior by Jim SoreboVigil by George SaundersThe Gate by Natsume SōsekiHouse of Splendid Isolation by Edna O'BrienHomesickness by Colin Barrett
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition III
102 books — 6 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

Positivity Warrior by Jim SoreboDeath and the Gardener by Georgi GospodinovNever Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerThe Old Man by the Sea by Domenico StarnoneThe Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition I
102 books — 4 voters
Positivity Warrior by Jim SoreboI'm Sorry I Cremated You by Jaclyn Michelle SmithNever Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerThe Leaving Room by Amber McBrideThe Museum of Forgotten Memories by Anstey Harris
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition II
102 books — 4 voters

Positivity Warrior by Jim SoreboThe White Book by Han KangNever Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerAs It Is in Heaven by Niall WilliamsO Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition IV
102 books — 4 voters
Positivity Warrior by Jim SoreboTravels with My Aunt by Graham GreeneNever Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerCatholics by Brian MooreThe Hours by Michael Cunningham
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition V
102 books — 4 voters

Positivity Warrior by Jim SoreboMust I Go by Yiyun LiNever Say Never, Never Say Always by Susan S. WarnerThe Immortalists by Chloe BenjaminHollow Bones by Jodi Picoult
Amazon Customers Also Bought or Read: Death, Grief and Loss Edition VI
70 books — 4 voters
ReCOgnition by Mark DowsonThe End is Now by John Joseph AdamsThe Man Who Watched the World End by Chris DietzelOn the Beach by Nevil ShuteThe Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Radio Free Megiddo: Broadcasting Live From the Apocalypse
40 books — 3 voters

The Ruins by Scott SmithBangkok Wakes to Rain by Pitchaya SudbanthadThe Drowned World by J.G. BallardThe Day of the Triffids by John WyndhamThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
Fictional Apocalypses: The World's End From Nature
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

The History of Bees by Maja LundeThe Book of Dave by Will SelfWild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghyThe Last Children of Tokyo by Yōko TawadaDown in the Sea of Angels by Khan Wong
Fictional Apocalypses: The World's End From Nature Part II
18 books — 1 voter
Titan Submersible Implosion by Kam NgTitan by Arshey AshveilBENEATH THE WAVES by Rose ChandlerTITAN by Lena P. HarrisTitan Unfinished by Guillermo A. M. Söhnlein
The Titan Oceangate Disaster - June 18, 2023
14 books — 1 voter

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