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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.27 — 593,813 ratings — published 1997
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,289 ratings — published 2019
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.04 — 75,811 ratings — published 1999
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,641 ratings — published 1968
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.10 — 31,213 ratings — published 1955
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,554 ratings — published 2015
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,938 ratings — published 2000
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,967 ratings — published 1997
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,440 ratings — published 2003
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,992 ratings — published 2013
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,702 ratings — published 2004
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,600 ratings — published 1974
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,644 ratings — published 2005
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,964 ratings — published 2009
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,463 ratings — published 2008
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,400 ratings — published 2003
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,011 ratings — published 2006
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,526 ratings — published 2004
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,949 ratings — published 2003
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,708 ratings — published 1997
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 74,406 ratings — published 2024
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 135,234 ratings — published 2006
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,889 ratings — published 2000
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.24 — 44,706 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.47 — 181,971 ratings — published 1959
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,019 ratings — published 1997
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,366 ratings — published 2005
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,985 ratings — published 2003
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.16 — 244,659 ratings — published 2023
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 332,960 ratings — published 2009
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,966 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 — 2,452 ratings — published 2007
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 43,221 ratings — published 2008
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,093 ratings — published 1996
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,738 ratings — published 2017
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.50 — 24,755 ratings — published 2024
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.48 — 19,497 ratings — published 2025
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 — 1,828 ratings — published 2018
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 58,016 ratings — published 2006
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.55 — 46,373 ratings — published 2025
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 652,959 ratings — published 2014
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,229,607 ratings — published 1996
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,227 ratings — published 2005
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.31 — 13,626 ratings — published 2005
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,061 ratings — published 2017
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,145 ratings — published 2016
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,607 ratings — published 2013
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,281 ratings — published 2006
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,613 ratings — published 2015
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,153 ratings — published 2009
“Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under someone else's authority. The concept of self-sufficiency has been undermined in value over a scant few generations. The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.”
― When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes
― When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes
“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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