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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 4.04 — 75,154 ratings — published 1999
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.36 — 70,556 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 — 588,564 ratings — published 1997
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 167,286 ratings — published 2015
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,431 ratings — published 1968
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,581 ratings — published 2013
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,330 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 — 122,820 ratings — published 2000
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,610 ratings — published 1997
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 — 64,055 ratings — published 2005
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,827 ratings — published 1955
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,899 ratings — published 2003
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,602 ratings — published 2004
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,945 ratings — published 2006
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,284 ratings — published 2008
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,076 ratings — published 2005
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,169 ratings — published 1997
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,877 ratings — published 2000
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,350 ratings — published 2003
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,765 ratings — published 2009
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,220 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 — 2,432 ratings — published 2007
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 76,842 ratings — published 2008
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,913 ratings — published 2009
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,084 ratings — published 1996
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.24 — 43,434 ratings — published 2009
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,288 ratings — published 1974
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,936 ratings — published 2003
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.50 — 23,904 ratings — published 2024
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,597 ratings — published 2017
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,380 ratings — published 2013
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,979 ratings — published 1997
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.24 — 864 ratings — published 2003
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,346 ratings — published 2005
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 237,225 ratings — published 2023
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.72 — 47,994 ratings — published 2019
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,916 ratings — published 2017
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 — 1,814 ratings — published 2018
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,098 ratings — published 2016
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,090 ratings — published 2014
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.46 — 178,525 ratings — published 1959
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,095 ratings — published 2011
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,105 ratings — published 2009
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,834 ratings — published 1946
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,800 ratings — published 2020
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (Scholastic Focus)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,021 ratings — published 2012
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 135,658 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 — 43,342 ratings — published 2004
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.04 — 665 ratings — published 2005
“A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.”
― A Fire Upon the Deep
― A Fire Upon the Deep
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