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Disaster Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.26 — 575,326 ratings — published 1997
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 73,382 ratings — published 1999
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.36 — 66,614 ratings — published 2019
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,772 ratings — published 1968
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,732 ratings — published 1955
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 163,613 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 — 120,222 ratings — published 2000
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,588 ratings — published 1997
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,526 ratings — published 2013
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883] (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,010 ratings — published 2003
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,316 ratings — published 2004
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 82,502 ratings — published 1974
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,328 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 — 62,585 ratings — published 2005
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,772 ratings — published 2008
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,772 ratings — published 2006
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,867 ratings — published 2004
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,204 ratings — published 2003
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,803 ratings — published 2003
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 133,999 ratings — published 2006
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 68,610 ratings — published 2024
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 65,580 ratings — published 1997
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,839 ratings — published 2000
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,279 ratings — published 2005
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,904 ratings — published 1997
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,827 ratings — published 2003
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 40,373 ratings — published 2009
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 326,425 ratings — published 2009
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,725 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 4.00 — 2,383 ratings — published 2007
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.46 — 170,391 ratings — published 1959
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,710 ratings — published 2008
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,067 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 218,486 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 — 8,287 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 — 1,785 ratings — published 2018
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 624,628 ratings — published 2014
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,211 ratings — published 2005
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,202,278 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,763 ratings — published 2006
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 — 12,790 ratings — published 2005
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,967 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 — 18,529 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 — 3,202 ratings — published 2006
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.24 — 854 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 — 2,481 ratings — published 2015
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,985 ratings — published 2009
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.50 — 20,409 ratings — published 2024
Drowning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 58,312 ratings — published 2023
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,464 ratings — published 2017
“Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster.”
― A Tale of Love and Darkness
― A Tale of Love and Darkness
“I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.”
― At Home: Essays 1982-1988
― At Home: Essays 1982-1988
