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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,239 ratings — published 1999
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,805 ratings — published 2011
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,174 ratings — published 2003
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 134,459 ratings — published 2006
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,467 ratings — published 2004
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.55 — 40,860 ratings — published 2025
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 — 63,312 ratings — published 2005
Eruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 70,260 ratings — published 2024
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,423 ratings — published 2017
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,877 ratings — published 2008
Dry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 57,106 ratings — published 2018
The Age of Miracles (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.66 — 95,510 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 — 120,054 ratings — published 1997
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,030 ratings — published 2013
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,255 ratings — published 2015
Torn Away (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,038 ratings — published 2014
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,999 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 — 18,689 ratings — published 2009
Wave (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,413 ratings — published 2013
Pompeii (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,102 ratings — published 2003
Lucifer's Hammer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,725 ratings — published 1977
Salvage the Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,096 ratings — published 2011
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,117 ratings — published 2010
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 35,186 ratings — published 2010
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,543 ratings — published 2009
The Displacements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,881 ratings — published 2022
A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,554 ratings — published 2019
The Great American Dust Bowl: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,324 ratings — published 2013
Ashen Winter (Ashfall, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,047 ratings — published 2012
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,316 ratings — published 2005
A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,739 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 — 581,293 ratings — published 1997
Into the Tempest (The Storm Boys #2)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,724 ratings — published 2023
No Judgments (Little Bridge Island, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.36 — 21,070 ratings — published 2019
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.95 — 38,704 ratings — published 2018
Eruption (Supervolcano, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.16 — 1,705 ratings — published 2011
Aftershock (Aftershock, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,274 ratings — published 2012
The Rift (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,554 ratings — published 1999
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,850 ratings — published 2003
Escaping the Giant Wave (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,893 ratings — published 2003
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,849 ratings — published 2006
The Phoenix Crown (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.86 — 50,887 ratings — published 2024
Wildfire (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.04 — 742 ratings — published 2023
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,206 ratings — published 2023
Aftershocks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.91 — 452 ratings — published 2020
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.89 — 59,760 ratings — published 2020
FantasticLand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.83 — 55,960 ratings — published 2016
Hostile Territory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.14 — 279 ratings — published 2020
Wildfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,652 ratings — published 2019
Barbarian's Taming (Ice Planet Barbarians, #8)
by (shelved 4 times as natural-disaster)
avg rating 4.00 — 39,591 ratings — published 2016
“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
“We Are Turkiye (The Sonnet)
Earthquake may shatter our houses,
But it can never shatter our hearts.
We shall rise from the rubble once again,
We shall build back against nature's curse.
But this time let us build back better,
By putting our faith in science not politics.
We could've averted such cataclysmic terror,
Had we heeded the warnings of scientists.
A scientist works to preserve life,
Politician plays publicity with death.
Given the choice between the two,
Listen to the scientist without wait.
Why do people have to die
for us to open our eyes!
If we still fail to heed reason,
nothing will stop the funeral cries.”
― Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
Earthquake may shatter our houses,
But it can never shatter our hearts.
We shall rise from the rubble once again,
We shall build back against nature's curse.
But this time let us build back better,
By putting our faith in science not politics.
We could've averted such cataclysmic terror,
Had we heeded the warnings of scientists.
A scientist works to preserve life,
Politician plays publicity with death.
Given the choice between the two,
Listen to the scientist without wait.
Why do people have to die
for us to open our eyes!
If we still fail to heed reason,
nothing will stop the funeral cries.”
― Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
