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Disaster Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.26 — 554,950 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 — 70,681 ratings — published 1999
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.37 — 61,866 ratings — published 2019
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,789 ratings — published 1968
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.09 — 27,946 ratings — published 1955
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 158,290 ratings — published 2015
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 116,706 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 — 118,108 ratings — published 1997
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,926 ratings — published 2004
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,746 ratings — published 2013
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,584 ratings — published 2003
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 81,145 ratings — published 1974
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,767 ratings — published 2009
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,279 ratings — published 2008
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,545 ratings — published 2005
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,560 ratings — published 2006
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,130 ratings — published 2004
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 132,677 ratings — published 2006
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,623 ratings — published 2003
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,056 ratings — published 2003
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.76 — 61,606 ratings — published 2024
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,784 ratings — published 2000
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 63,377 ratings — published 1997
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,779 ratings — published 1997
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,209 ratings — published 2005
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,722 ratings — published 2003
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,086 ratings — published 2008
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 35,973 ratings — published 2009
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,438 ratings — published 2011
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 319,312 ratings — published 2009
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,299 ratings — published 2007
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.46 — 157,786 ratings — published
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,002 ratings — published 1990
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 190,747 ratings — published 2023
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,851 ratings — published 2017
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 595,770 ratings — published 2014
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,185 ratings — published 2005
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,720 ratings — published 2018
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,819 ratings — published 2016
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,172,089 ratings — published 1996
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,276 ratings — published 2005
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.23 — 828 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 — 2,353 ratings — published 2015
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 25,698 ratings — published 2013
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 17,984 ratings — published 2009
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,101 ratings — published 2006
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,442 ratings — published 2006
Drowning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 55,219 ratings — published 2023
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,806 ratings — published 2009
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 34,578 ratings — published 2010
“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.”
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
― The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in the night of death, chaos and disaster, I am willing to go down with the ship. I will not be guilty of the ineffable meanness of paddling away in some orthodox canoe. I will go down with the ship, with those who love me, and with those whom I have loved. If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant. I make my choice now. I despise that doctrine. It has covered the cheeks of this world with tears. It has polluted the hearts of children, and poisoned the imaginations of men. It has been a constant pain, a perpetual terror to every good man and woman and child. It has filled the good with horror and with fear; but it has had no effect upon the infamous and base. It has wrung the hearts of the tender; it has furrowed the cheeks of the good. This doctrine never should be preached again. What right have you, sir, Mr. clergyman, you, minister of the gospel, to stand at the portals of the tomb, at the vestibule of eternity, and fill the future with horror and with fear? I do not believe this doctrine: neither do you. If you did, you could not sleep one moment. Any man who believes it, and has within his breast a decent, throbbing heart, will go insane. A man who believes that doctrine and does not go insane has the heart of a snake and the conscience of a hyena.”
― The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child
― The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child
