Disaster

Fiction or Non-Fiction related to Natural Disaster (Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Hurricanes) or other catastrophic events such as plagues and societal collapse. Usually focuses on small or large groups of people.

Also see Survivalist
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
The Johnstown Flood
A Night to Remember
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
The Children's Blizzard
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
Zeitoun
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
One by One by Ruth WareMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieAll Fall Down by Jean LittleBloomability by Sharon CreechThe Silent Land by Graham Joyce
Avalanches & Landslides in Fiction
117 books — 14 voters
Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. ElliottLife of Pi by Yann MartelLife, the Universe and Everything by Douglas AdamsThe Story of My Life by Helen KellerThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
This is the.......life
1,185 books — 77 voters

Girls at the Edge of the World by Laura Brooke RobsonThe Johnstown Flood by David McCulloughThe Drowned Cities by Paolo BacigalupiFloodland by Marcus SedgwickLove in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
Drowning Towns
423 books — 61 voters
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeHatchet by Gary PaulsenElderberries by Alicia BayerBy the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Best How To Survive Books
84 books — 41 voters

Jody Feldman
Every step gets him closer to greatness...or disaster.
Jody Feldman, The Seventh Level

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