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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 71,986 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 — 64,184 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 — 564,449 ratings — published 1997
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 160,702 ratings — published 2015
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,258 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 — 40,711 ratings — published 2013
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883] (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,803 ratings — published 2003
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,295 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 4.07 — 61,521 ratings — published 2005
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,686 ratings — published 1955
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,719 ratings — published 2003
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 118,789 ratings — published 1997
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,067 ratings — published 2004
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,668 ratings — published 2006
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,472 ratings — published 1997
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,484 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 — 12,588 ratings — published 2005
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,810 ratings — published 2000
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,119 ratings — published 2003
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,065 ratings — published 2009
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,191 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 — 2,334 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 — 18,273 ratings — published 2009
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,960 ratings — published 2009
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 75,410 ratings — published 2008
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 81,750 ratings — published 1974
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,785 ratings — published 2003
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,144 ratings — published 2013
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,033 ratings — published 1996
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,824 ratings — published 1997
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.24 — 839 ratings — published 2003
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,240 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 — 8,083 ratings — published 2017
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.51 — 17,530 ratings — published 2024
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.72 — 44,093 ratings — published 2019
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,087 ratings — published 2017
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,252 ratings — published 2012
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,888 ratings — published 1946
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,478 ratings — published 2004
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 — 1,754 ratings — published 2018
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,899 ratings — published 2016
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,002 ratings — published 2014
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.46 — 163,231 ratings — published 1959
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,069 ratings — published 2011
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,160 ratings — published 2006
Titanic: Voices From the Disaster (Scholastic Focus)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,921 ratings — published 2012
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,897 ratings — published 2009
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,616 ratings — published 2009
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 203,369 ratings — published 2023
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,707 ratings — published 2020
“Being along with the Nature your soul is stronger than all disasters.”
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“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force is that of nature, we speak of disasters. When the force is that of other human beings, we speak of atrocities. Traumatic events overwhelm the ordinary systems of care that give people a sense of control, connection, and meaning.… Traumatic events are extraordinary, not because they occur rarely, but rather because they overwhelm the ordinary human adaptations to life.… They confront human beings with the extremities of helplessness and terror, and evoke the responses of catastrophe.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
