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Disasters Books
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,564 ratings — published 1999
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.36 — 69,049 ratings — published 2019
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.26 — 583,788 ratings — published 1997
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 166,046 ratings — published 2015
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,227 ratings — published 1968
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,224 ratings — published 2013
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,222 ratings — published 2003
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,920 ratings — published 2000
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,237 ratings — published 1997
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,593 ratings — published 2005
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,520 ratings — published 1955
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,866 ratings — published 2003
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,515 ratings — published 2004
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,884 ratings — published 2006
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,141 ratings — published 2008
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.40 — 66,649 ratings — published 1997
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,864 ratings — published 2000
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,296 ratings — published 2003
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,967 ratings — published 2005
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,638 ratings — published 2009
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,217 ratings — published 2005
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,419 ratings — published 2007
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,755 ratings — published 2009
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 76,565 ratings — published 2008
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,076 ratings — published 1996
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,310 ratings — published 2009
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,029 ratings — published 1974
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,864 ratings — published 2003
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,478 ratings — published 2017
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,188 ratings — published 2013
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,961 ratings — published 1997
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.24 — 861 ratings — published 2003
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.50 — 23,059 ratings — published 2024
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,328 ratings — published 2005
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.72 — 46,825 ratings — published 2019
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,781 ratings — published 2017
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 229,899 ratings — published 2023
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.46 — 175,694 ratings — published 1959
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,805 ratings — published 2018
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,050 ratings — published 2016
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,075 ratings — published 2014
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,072 ratings — published 2009
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,181 ratings — published 1946
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,778 ratings — published 2020
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (Scholastic Focus)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,006 ratings — published 2012
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,090 ratings — published 2011
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 135,054 ratings — published 2009
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,179 ratings — published 2004
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.04 — 662 ratings — published 2005
“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
“Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on what we heard—the politics, the plane crashes and crimes, the large disasters of the day, which we all use to keep the smaller, more long-term sorrows at bay.”
― While I Was Gone
― While I Was Gone
