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Natural Disasters Books
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 71,848 ratings — published 1999
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,775 ratings — published 2003
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,421 ratings — published 2015
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 133,148 ratings — published 2006
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,894 ratings — published 2016
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.93 — 40,604 ratings — published 2013
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,049 ratings — published 2004
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,197 ratings — published 1968
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 61,403 ratings — published 2005
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,344 ratings — published 2008
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,159 ratings — published 2015
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,814 ratings — published 2012
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,156 ratings — published 2006
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,023 ratings — published 2009
The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.15 — 993 ratings — published 2015
Wave (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 22,929 ratings — published 2013
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,818 ratings — published 1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.26 — 563,149 ratings — published 1997
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,780 ratings — published 2003
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,658 ratings — published 2006
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,751 ratings — published 2018
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 118,708 ratings — published 1997
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,239 ratings — published 2005
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.18 — 748 ratings — published 2011
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,886 ratings — published 2021
A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,497 ratings — published 2019
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,051 ratings — published 2017
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,331 ratings — published 2007
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,572 ratings — published 2011
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,034 ratings — published 2010
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 34,777 ratings — published 2010
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,314 ratings — published 2023
Beyond Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.81 — 266 ratings — published 2020
Wildfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,506 ratings — published 2019
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,011 ratings — published 2005
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,023 ratings — published 2017
Outrun the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,702 ratings — published 2016
Rain Reign (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 24,196 ratings — published 2014
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 384,077 ratings — published 1937
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,779 ratings — published 2014
Torn Away (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,015 ratings — published 2014
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,603 ratings — published 2012
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.57 — 26,182 ratings — published 2025
I Am the Storm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,017 ratings — published 2020
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,706 ratings — published 2020
The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.48 — 844 ratings — published 2019
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,457 ratings — published 2008
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,264 ratings — published 2002
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 564 ratings — published 2013
The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,667 ratings — published 2007
“For Cities, the ability to mitigate the effects of natural disasters is a plus for the E in ESG and an indictor of bond quality.”
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“It's said that Richard Harding Davis was dispatched by William Randolph Hearst to cover the Johnstown flood. Here was his lead: "God stood on a mountaintop here and looked at what his waters had wrought." Hearst cabled back: "Forget flood. Interview God.”
― A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck
― A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck
