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Disaster Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.26 — 584,015 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.36 — 69,113 ratings — published 2019
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,603 ratings — published 1999
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,246 ratings — published 1968
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,530 ratings — published 1955
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 166,109 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 — 121,958 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 — 120,256 ratings — published 1997
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,224 ratings — published 2003
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,239 ratings — published 2013
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,521 ratings — published 2004
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,038 ratings — published 1974
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,646 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 — 63,620 ratings — published 2005
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,155 ratings — published 2008
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,887 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 — 43,189 ratings — published 2004
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,297 ratings — published 2003
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,868 ratings — published 2003
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 66,669 ratings — published 1997
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 134,664 ratings — published 2006
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 71,227 ratings — published 2024
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,864 ratings — published 2000
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,355 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 — 5,961 ratings — published 1997
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,329 ratings — published 2005
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,864 ratings — published 2003
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 329,459 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.46 — 175,818 ratings — published 1959
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,846 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 — 2,421 ratings — published 2007
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,961 ratings — published 2008
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,076 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 230,241 ratings — published 2023
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,484 ratings — published 2017
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.50 — 23,089 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 — 1,805 ratings — published 2018
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,319 ratings — published 2006
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 638,118 ratings — published 2014
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,217 ratings — published 2005
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,051 ratings — published 2016
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,214,861 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 — 12,972 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 — 2,551 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 — 27,202 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 — 4,072 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 — 18,762 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 — 3,243 ratings — published 2006
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.24 — 861 ratings — published 2003
Drowning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 59,584 ratings — published 2021
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