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Natural Disaster Books
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 72,832 ratings — published 1999
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,674 ratings — published 2011
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883] (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,942 ratings — published 2003
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 133,674 ratings — published 2006
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,211 ratings — published 2004
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,129 ratings — published 2005
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 67,422 ratings — published 2024
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,200 ratings — published 2017
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,565 ratings — published 2008
Dry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 55,659 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Miracles (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.66 — 94,818 ratings — published 2012
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,284 ratings — published 1997
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.57 — 33,067 ratings — published 2025
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 41,222 ratings — published 2013
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,202 ratings — published 2015
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,896 ratings — published 2012
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,443 ratings — published 2009
Torn Away (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,018 ratings — published 2014
Wave (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,138 ratings — published 2013
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 53,941 ratings — published 2003
Lucifer's Hammer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,496 ratings — published 1977
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.96 — 73,767 ratings — published 2011
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,059 ratings — published 2010
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 34,967 ratings — published 2010
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,210 ratings — published 2009
The Displacements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,353 ratings — published 2022
A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,519 ratings — published 2019
Ashen Winter (Ashfall, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,974 ratings — published 2012
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,258 ratings — published 2005
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,729 ratings — published 2009
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.26 — 571,403 ratings — published 1997
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,734 ratings — published 2006
Into the Tempest (The Storm Boys #2)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,659 ratings — published 2023
No Judgments (Little Bridge Island, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.36 — 20,777 ratings — published 2019
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,070 ratings — published 2018
Eruption (Supervolcano, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.16 — 1,698 ratings — published 2011
Aftershock (Aftershock, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,269 ratings — published 2012
The Great American Dust Bowl: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,308 ratings — published 2013
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,573 ratings — published 1968
The Rift (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,545 ratings — published 1999
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,812 ratings — published 2003
Escaping the Giant Wave (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,866 ratings — published 2003
The Phoenix Crown (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.86 — 47,394 ratings — published 2024
Wildfire (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.04 — 713 ratings — published 2023
Aftershocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.91 — 442 ratings — published 2020
The Nature of Fragile Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.26 — 84,501 ratings — published 2021
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.90 — 58,290 ratings — published 2020
FantasticLand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.83 — 53,029 ratings — published 2016
Hostile Territory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.13 — 273 ratings — published 2020
Wildfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,570 ratings — published 2019
“It’s like denying a hurricane or a tidal wave. Nico is my natural disaster, he’s my pleasure incarnate, he’s my sins made flesh and I want him to take me, ravish me, turn me into something I never once dreamed.”
― Broken by Sin
― Broken by Sin
“The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother took Buster and Helen to high ground to pray, but I stayed behind with Apache and Lupe. We barricaded the door with the rug and started bailing water out the window. Mother came back and begged us to go pray with her on the hilltop.
"To heck with praying!" I shouted. "Bail, dammit, bail!"
Mom look mortified. I could tell she thought I'd probably doomed us all with my blasphemy, and I was a little shocked at it myself, but with the water rising so fast, the situation was dire. We had lit the kerosene lamp, and we could see the walls of the dugout were beginning to sag inward. If Mom had pitched in and helped, there was a chance we might have been able to save the dugout - not a good chance, but a fighting chance. Apache and Lupe and I couldn't do it on our own, though, and when the ceiling started to cave, we grabbed Mom's walnut headboard and pulled it through the door just as the dugout collapsed in on itself, burying everything.
Afterward, I was pretty aggravated with Mom. She kept saying that the flood was God's will and we had to submit to it. But I didn't see things that way. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail - the gumption to try to save ourselves - isn't that what he wanted us to do?”
― Half Broke Horses
"To heck with praying!" I shouted. "Bail, dammit, bail!"
Mom look mortified. I could tell she thought I'd probably doomed us all with my blasphemy, and I was a little shocked at it myself, but with the water rising so fast, the situation was dire. We had lit the kerosene lamp, and we could see the walls of the dugout were beginning to sag inward. If Mom had pitched in and helped, there was a chance we might have been able to save the dugout - not a good chance, but a fighting chance. Apache and Lupe and I couldn't do it on our own, though, and when the ceiling started to cave, we grabbed Mom's walnut headboard and pulled it through the door just as the dugout collapsed in on itself, burying everything.
Afterward, I was pretty aggravated with Mom. She kept saying that the flood was God's will and we had to submit to it. But I didn't see things that way. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail - the gumption to try to save ourselves - isn't that what he wanted us to do?”
― Half Broke Horses
