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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 4.04 — 75,763 ratings — published 1999
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.36 — 72,173 ratings — published 2019
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.27 — 593,431 ratings — published 1997
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,476 ratings — published 2015
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,626 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 — 42,966 ratings — published 2013
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,848 ratings — published 2000
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,938 ratings — published 1997
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,431 ratings — published 2003
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 — 64,604 ratings — published 2005
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.10 — 31,185 ratings — published 1955
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,947 ratings — published 2003
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,698 ratings — published 2004
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,452 ratings — published 2008
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,009 ratings — published 2006
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.31 — 13,597 ratings — published 2005
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,671 ratings — published 1997
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,887 ratings — published 2000
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,400 ratings — published 2003
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,944 ratings — published 2009
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,227 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 4.00 — 2,451 ratings — published 2007
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.24 — 44,625 ratings — published 2009
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,092 ratings — published 2009
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 77,160 ratings — published 2008
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,093 ratings — published 1996
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.50 — 24,684 ratings — published 2024
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,730 ratings — published 2017
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,587 ratings — published 2013
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,576 ratings — published 1974
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,980 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 — 6,017 ratings — published 1997
Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.24 — 870 ratings — published 2003
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.16 — 244,168 ratings — published 2023
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.72 — 51,181 ratings — published 2019
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,366 ratings — published 2005
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,052 ratings — published 2017
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,646 ratings — published 1946
Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,114 ratings — published 2014
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 — 1,827 ratings — published 2018
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,142 ratings — published 2016
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.47 — 181,720 ratings — published 1959
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,099 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 — 4,149 ratings — published 2009
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as disasters)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,501 ratings — published 2004
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,822 ratings — published 2020
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster (Scholastic Focus)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,043 ratings — published 2012
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.03 — 669 ratings — published 2005
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,419 ratings — published 2018
“The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“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
