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Disasters Books
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 71,029 ratings — published 1999
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.37 — 62,480 ratings — published 2019
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.26 — 557,405 ratings — published 1997
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,920 ratings — published 1968
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 159,031 ratings — published 2015
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,102 ratings — published 2013
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,640 ratings — published 2003
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 117,169 ratings — published 2000
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,827 ratings — published 2005
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,146 ratings — published 1955
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,654 ratings — published 2003
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 118,309 ratings — published 1997
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,959 ratings — published 2004
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,597 ratings — published 2006
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.40 — 63,673 ratings — published 1997
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,339 ratings — published 2008
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,419 ratings — published 2005
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,787 ratings — published 2000
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,073 ratings — published 2003
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 79,866 ratings — published 2009
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,186 ratings — published 2005
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,313 ratings — published 2007
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 74,957 ratings — published 2008
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,485 ratings — published 2009
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,066 ratings — published 2009
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 81,302 ratings — published 1974
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,734 ratings — published 2003
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 25,813 ratings — published 2013
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,006 ratings — published 1990
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.23 — 832 ratings — published 2003
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,217 ratings — published 2005
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,928 ratings — published 2017
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,791 ratings — published 1997
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.51 — 16,164 ratings — published 2024
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,923 ratings — published 2017
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.72 — 43,014 ratings — published 2019
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,734 ratings — published 2018
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,980 ratings — published 2014
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,242 ratings — published 2012
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,130 ratings — published 2006
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,770 ratings — published 1946
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,219 ratings — published 2004
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,841 ratings — published 2016
Titanic: Voices From the Disaster (Scholastic Focus)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,883 ratings — published 2012
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.46 — 159,146 ratings — published 1959
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,053 ratings — published 2011
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,828 ratings — published 2009
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 131,809 ratings — published 2009
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,687 ratings — published 2020
“Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!”
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“Can you calmly walk towards a disaster and sing along? Of course you can, but don't think that disaster will be impressed by your courage and run away!”
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