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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 — 73,389 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 4.36 — 66,629 ratings — published 2019
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.26 — 575,398 ratings — published 1997
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,774 ratings — published 1968
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 163,638 ratings — published 2015
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,533 ratings — published 2013
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883] (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,013 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 — 120,239 ratings — published 2000
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,595 ratings — published 2005
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,740 ratings — published 1955
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,589 ratings — published 1997
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,803 ratings — published 2003
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,318 ratings — published 2004
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,772 ratings — published 2006
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,779 ratings — published 2008
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.40 — 65,585 ratings — published 1997
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,839 ratings — published 2000
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 — 12,790 ratings — published 2005
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,204 ratings — published 2003
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,330 ratings — published 2009
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,211 ratings — published 2005
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,384 ratings — published 2007
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,534 ratings — published 2009
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 76,040 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 — 40,384 ratings — published 2009
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,067 ratings — published 1996
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 82,508 ratings — published 1974
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,827 ratings — published 2003
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,904 ratings — published 1997
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,290 ratings — published 2017
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 26,763 ratings — published 2013
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.24 — 854 ratings — published 2003
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.72 — 45,376 ratings — published 2019
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,279 ratings — published 2005
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 218,599 ratings — published 2023
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,465 ratings — published 2017
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.50 — 20,432 ratings — published 2024
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 — 1,785 ratings — published 2018
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,969 ratings — published 2016
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,037 ratings — published 2014
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.46 — 170,449 ratings — published 1959
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 90,729 ratings — published 1946
Titanic: Voices From the Disaster (Scholastic Focus)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,956 ratings — published 2012
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,083 ratings — published 2011
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,985 ratings — published 2009
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 133,915 ratings — published 2009
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,867 ratings — published 2004
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,736 ratings — published 2020
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,290 ratings — published 2012
“The only thing worse than being a disaster is being a disaster with a witness.”
― How We Fight For Our Lives
― How We Fight For Our Lives
“The children were bilious for a few days, and inclined to dislike each other: but they accepted the change in their lives practically without noticing it. It is a fact that it takes experience before one can realize what is a catastrophe and what is not. Children have little faculty of distinguishing between disaster and the ordinary course of their lives.”
― A High Wind in Jamaica
― A High Wind in Jamaica
