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Disaster Books
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.26 — 570,817 ratings — published 1997
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 72,756 ratings — published 1999
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.37 — 65,460 ratings — published 2019
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,537 ratings — published 1968
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,265 ratings — published 1955
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 162,365 ratings — published 2015
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,366 ratings — published 2000
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,241 ratings — published 1997
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883] (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,916 ratings — published 2003
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,181 ratings — published 2013
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,198 ratings — published 2004
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 82,205 ratings — published 1974
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,199 ratings — published 2009
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,063 ratings — published 2005
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,618 ratings — published 2008
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,702 ratings — published 2004
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,729 ratings — published 2006
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,157 ratings — published 2003
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,756 ratings — published 2003
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 133,629 ratings — published 2006
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 67,235 ratings — published 2024
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,827 ratings — published 2000
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 65,074 ratings — published 1997
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,256 ratings — published 2005
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,872 ratings — published 1997
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,812 ratings — published 2003
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,317 ratings — published 2009
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 324,919 ratings — published 2009
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,664 ratings — published 2011
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.46 — 167,189 ratings — published 1959
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,544 ratings — published 2008
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,358 ratings — published 2007
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,058 ratings — published 1996
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,189 ratings — published 2017
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 212,154 ratings — published 2023
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 — 1,772 ratings — published 2018
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 617,369 ratings — published 2014
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,198 ratings — published 2005
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,196,166 ratings — published 1996
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,704 ratings — published 2005
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,930 ratings — published 2016
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,423 ratings — published 2009
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,182 ratings — published 2006
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,453 ratings — published 2006
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.24 — 847 ratings — published 2003
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,451 ratings — published 2015
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,937 ratings — published 2009
Drowning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 57,694 ratings — published 2023
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,273 ratings — published 2017
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,486 ratings — published 2013
“You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World.”
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“Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.”
― Get a Life
― Get a Life
