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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.27 — 593,754 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,271 ratings — published 2019
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.04 — 75,804 ratings — published 1999
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,641 ratings — published 1968
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.10 — 31,211 ratings — published 1955
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,544 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 — 123,923 ratings — published 2000
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,962 ratings — published 1997
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,438 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 — 42,988 ratings — published 2013
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,703 ratings — published 2004
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,593 ratings — published 1974
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,639 ratings — published 2005
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,958 ratings — published 2009
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,461 ratings — published 2008
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,400 ratings — published 2003
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,012 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 — 43,520 ratings — published 2004
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,949 ratings — published 2003
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,702 ratings — published 1997
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 74,395 ratings — published 2024
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 135,230 ratings — published 2006
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,889 ratings — published 2000
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.24 — 44,689 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.47 — 181,931 ratings — published 1959
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,019 ratings — published 1997
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,366 ratings — published 2005
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,985 ratings — published 2003
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.16 — 244,592 ratings — published 2023
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 332,936 ratings — published 2009
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,963 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 — 2,452 ratings — published 2007
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 43,220 ratings — published 2008
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,093 ratings — published 1996
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,737 ratings — published 2017
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.50 — 24,745 ratings — published 2024
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.48 — 19,474 ratings — published 2025
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 — 1,828 ratings — published 2018
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 58,009 ratings — published 2006
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.55 — 46,358 ratings — published 2025
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 652,885 ratings — published 2014
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,229,542 ratings — published 1996
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,227 ratings — published 2005
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.31 — 13,626 ratings — published 2005
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,059 ratings — published 2017
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,145 ratings — published 2016
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,607 ratings — published 2013
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,281 ratings — published 2006
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 — 2,613 ratings — published 2015
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,151 ratings — published 2009
“Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.”
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“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
