Natural Disasters


Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
The Children's Blizzard
The Johnstown Flood
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Stand by Stephen        KingFirst Light by Adam SigristThe 40-Minute War by Janet E. MorrisOne Second After by William R. Forstchen
It's Over... Life as We Knew It
58 books — 80 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckSunstruck by Melissa BellisThe Martian by Andy WeirTitus Alone by Mervyn PeakeAli, Child of the Desert by Jonathan London
Sandstorms & Duststorms in Fiction
117 books — 13 voters

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkTrauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis HermanThe Polyvagal Theory in Therapy by Deb DanaExpecting Sunshine by Alexis Marie ChuteCivilianized by Michael  Anthony
Trauma Professionals Book List
96 books — 57 voters
8.4 by Peter HernonEarthquake in the Early Morning by Mary Pope OsborneThe Rift by Walter Jon WilliamsSlow Apocalypse by John VarleyRichter 10 by Arthur C. Clarke
Best Earthquake Fiction
66 books — 25 voters

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Christopher Hitchens
You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and which has fissures and faults in its crust; this much is accepted even by those who think that the globe is only six thousand years old, as well as by those who believe that the earth was "designed" to be this way. Even in such a case, it is to be expected that earthquakes will occur and that, if they occur under the seabed, tidal waves will occur a ...more
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