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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 566,502 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 72,173 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 118,576 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.10 avg rating — 28,815 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 81,878 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 61,667 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 118,896 ratings
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The Johnstown Flood
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4.13 avg rating — 25,321 ratings
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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3.98 avg rating — 42,546 ratings
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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4.37 avg rating — 64,529 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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4.16 avg rating — 121,324 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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3.89 avg rating — 56,168 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883]
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3.88 avg rating — 21,839 ratings
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The Children's Blizzard
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3.89 avg rating — 13,093 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 161,181 ratings
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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4.01 avg rating — 7,727 ratings
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The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
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3.96 avg rating — 2,815 ratings
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
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4.37 avg rating — 26,583 ratings
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
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3.98 avg rating — 26,226 ratings
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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4.34 avg rating — 21,748 ratings
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
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4.25 avg rating — 38,335 ratings
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 40,840 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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3.79 avg rating — 7,245 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
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4.14 avg rating — 18,309 ratings
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Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum
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4.24 avg rating — 843 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,189,757 ratings
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
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4.03 avg rating — 5,128 ratings
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
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4.40 avg rating — 2,035 ratings
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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
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4.13 avg rating — 4,692 ratings
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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic
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4.18 avg rating — 3,662 ratings
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,342 ratings
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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4.30 avg rating — 12,617 ratings
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Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
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4.37 avg rating — 1,256 ratings
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 13,096 ratings
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Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
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4.22 avg rating — 5,834 ratings
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
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4.72 avg rating — 44,291 ratings
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Zeitoun
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4.05 avg rating — 80,098 ratings
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Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
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4.20 avg rating — 8,110 ratings
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Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917
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3.98 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
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4.19 avg rating — 2,296 ratings
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Easy Cellar: The Ultimate Survival Program
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4.32 avg rating — 63 ratings
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
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3.76 avg rating — 752 ratings
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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4.17 avg rating — 19,571 ratings
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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
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3.91 avg rating — 6,726 ratings
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Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
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3.87 avg rating — 7,103 ratings
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The Lost Ways 2: The Best Survivalist Guide
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4.28 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
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3.91 avg rating — 7,657 ratings
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Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History
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4.43 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Young Men and Fire
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4.03 avg rating — 7,285 ratings
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
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4.01 avg rating — 3,906 ratings
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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4.17 avg rating — 205,802 ratings
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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4.19 avg rating — 68,759 ratings
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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4.33 avg rating — 23,527 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
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3.87 avg rating — 46,819 ratings
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
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4.06 avg rating — 2,791 ratings
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What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
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4.25 avg rating — 2,434 ratings
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The Worst Journey in the World
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4.19 avg rating — 8,402 ratings
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 64,633 ratings
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
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3.87 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them
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4.13 avg rating — 1,759 ratings
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Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
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4.04 avg rating — 650 ratings
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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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3.89 avg rating — 11,617 ratings
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
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4.46 avg rating — 7,456 ratings
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Wave
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3.80 avg rating — 23,007 ratings
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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3.83 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy
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3.77 avg rating — 1,989 ratings
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Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
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4.03 avg rating — 782 ratings
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 12,226 ratings
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Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
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3.95 avg rating — 171 ratings
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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4.15 avg rating — 79,168 ratings
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Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival
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4.18 avg rating — 2,008 ratings
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Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
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3.72 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
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3.98 avg rating — 12,295 ratings
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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
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4.11 avg rating — 3,840 ratings
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The Great Fire of London, in that Apocalyptic Year, 1666
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3.76 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Sinking of the Eastland
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4.06 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
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3.88 avg rating — 865 ratings
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The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
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4.09 avg rating — 2,804 ratings
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The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy on the Indiana Lakeshore
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3.54 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
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4.18 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
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4.16 avg rating — 4,406 ratings
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The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Hotel Fire
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4.28 avg rating — 159 ratings
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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
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3.79 avg rating — 16,666 ratings
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The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
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4.10 avg rating — 5,376 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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4.39 avg rating — 29,247 ratings
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The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
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4.12 avg rating — 1,867 ratings
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The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy
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3.58 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11
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4.22 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
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4.51 avg rating — 17,831 ratings
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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
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4.21 avg rating — 2,902 ratings
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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4.17 avg rating — 3,160 ratings
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The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849
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4.18 avg rating — 1,280 ratings
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Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
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4.47 avg rating — 3,769 ratings
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Race to the Pole: Tragedy, Heroism, and Scott's Antarctic Quest
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4.26 avg rating — 1,458 ratings
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No Way Down: Life and Death on K2
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3.98 avg rating — 7,806 ratings
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A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
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4.08 avg rating — 342 ratings
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Wilful Murder: The Sinking of the Lusitania
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4.03 avg rating — 875 ratings
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City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle
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4.22 avg rating — 310 ratings
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The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
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4.19 avg rating — 4,129 ratings
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The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder, and the Agony of Engine 57
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4.32 avg rating — 373 ratings
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