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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.26 — 589,367 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.36 — 70,776 ratings — published 2019
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.04 — 75,251 ratings — published 1999
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,466 ratings — published 1968
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,902 ratings — published 1955
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 167,471 ratings — published 2015
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,939 ratings — published 2000
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,658 ratings — published 1997
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,339 ratings — published 2003
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,645 ratings — published 2013
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,617 ratings — published 2004
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,332 ratings — published 1974
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,780 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 — 64,128 ratings — published 2005
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,313 ratings — published 2008
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,954 ratings — published 2006
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,362 ratings — published 2004
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,359 ratings — published 2003
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 134,925 ratings — published 2006
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,906 ratings — published 2003
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,246 ratings — published 1997
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 73,284 ratings — published 2024
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,878 ratings — published 2000
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.24 — 43,622 ratings — published 2009
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,982 ratings — published 1997
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,351 ratings — published 2005
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.47 — 179,017 ratings — published 1959
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,943 ratings — published 2003
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 331,336 ratings — published 2009
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 238,433 ratings — published 2023
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,906 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 — 2,434 ratings — published 2007
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 43,088 ratings — published 2008
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,084 ratings — published 1996
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,622 ratings — published 2017
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.50 — 24,049 ratings — published 2024
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 — 1,816 ratings — published 2018
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,652 ratings — published 2006
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.49 — 17,484 ratings — published 2025
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 645,945 ratings — published 2014
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,223 ratings — published 2005
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,106 ratings — published 2016
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,262 ratings — published 2006
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,223,325 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 — 13,096 ratings — published 2005
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,582 ratings — published 2015
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,404 ratings — published 2013
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,112 ratings — published 2009
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,942 ratings — published 2009
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,935 ratings — published 2017
“A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-term social and political transformations, both good and bad, arise from the wreckage. The door to this ear's potential paradises is in hell.”
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
