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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 — 575,367 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 — 73,384 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 4.36 — 66,619 ratings — published 2019
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,773 ratings — published 1968
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,736 ratings — published 1955
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 163,623 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 — 120,228 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 — 119,587 ratings — published 1997
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,530 ratings — published 2013
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883] (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,011 ratings — published 2003
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,317 ratings — published 2004
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 82,502 ratings — published 1974
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,328 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 — 62,589 ratings — published 2005
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,775 ratings — published 2008
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,772 ratings — published 2006
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,867 ratings — published 2004
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,204 ratings — published 2003
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,803 ratings — published 2003
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 134,003 ratings — published 2006
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 68,620 ratings — published 2024
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 65,583 ratings — published 1997
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,839 ratings — published 2000
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,279 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 — 5,904 ratings — published 1997
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,827 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 — 40,377 ratings — published 2009
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 326,437 ratings — published 2009
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,727 ratings — published 2011
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,384 ratings — published 2007
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.46 — 170,413 ratings — published 1959
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,712 ratings — published 2008
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,067 ratings — published 1996
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 218,537 ratings — published 2023
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,288 ratings — published 2017
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 — 1,785 ratings — published 2018
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 624,703 ratings — published 2014
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,211 ratings — published 2005
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,202,334 ratings — published 1996
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,766 ratings — published 2006
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 — 12,790 ratings — published 2005
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,968 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 — 18,530 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 — 3,202 ratings — published 2006
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.24 — 854 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 — 2,481 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 — 3,985 ratings — published 2009
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.50 — 20,420 ratings — published 2024
Drowning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 58,318 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 — 4,465 ratings — published 2017
“You have to jump into disaster with both feet.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County.
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years.
So ended The Day.”
― Alas, Babylon
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years.
So ended The Day.”
― Alas, Babylon
