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Disaster Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.26 — 579,604 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.36 — 67,947 ratings — published 2019
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,014 ratings — published 1999
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,015 ratings — published 1968
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,182 ratings — published 1955
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 164,951 ratings — published 2015
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,094 ratings — published 2000
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,932 ratings — published 1997
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,142 ratings — published 2003
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,890 ratings — published 2013
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,414 ratings — published 2004
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 82,797 ratings — published 1974
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,497 ratings — published 2009
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,125 ratings — published 2005
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,922 ratings — published 2008
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,030 ratings — published 2004
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,831 ratings — published 2006
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,254 ratings — published 2003
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,841 ratings — published 2003
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 134,348 ratings — published 2006
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 69,840 ratings — published 2024
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 66,195 ratings — published 1997
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,854 ratings — published 2000
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,931 ratings — published 1997
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,309 ratings — published 2005
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,401 ratings — published 2009
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,844 ratings — published 2003
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 328,008 ratings — published 2009
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,782 ratings — published 2011
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,404 ratings — published 2007
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.46 — 173,262 ratings — published 1959
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,836 ratings — published 2008
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,074 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 224,637 ratings — published 2023
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,387 ratings — published 2017
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,794 ratings — published 2018
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 631,955 ratings — published 2014
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,213 ratings — published 2005
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,056 ratings — published 2006
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,208,676 ratings — published 1996
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,888 ratings — published 2005
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.50 — 22,064 ratings — published 2024
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,001 ratings — published 2016
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,643 ratings — published 2009
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,227 ratings — published 2006
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.24 — 856 ratings — published 2003
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,521 ratings — published 2015
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,973 ratings — published 2013
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,033 ratings — published 2009
Drowning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 58,979 ratings — published 2021
“You have to jump into disaster with both feet.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“It is a mysterious thing how cheerful people become in the face of disaster. My father whistled as he boarded up the windows, and my mother from time to time would call to him happily out the back door. She obviously was enjoying the unusual pleasure of having him home on a weekday morning. Tomorrow they might be ruined or dead, today they had each other.”
― Jacob Have I Loved
― Jacob Have I Loved
