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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.04 — 75,856 ratings — published 1999
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,454 ratings — published 2003
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 135,264 ratings — published 2006
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,147 ratings — published 2016
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,018 ratings — published 2013
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,656 ratings — published 1968
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,692 ratings — published 2005
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,615 ratings — published 2015
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,710 ratings — published 2004
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,980 ratings — published 2009
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.85 — 43,240 ratings — published 2008
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,308 ratings — published 2015
The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,088 ratings — published 2015
Wave (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,751 ratings — published 2013
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,132 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 4.16 — 3,282 ratings — published 2006
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,337 ratings — published 2021
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 — 6,021 ratings — published 1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.27 — 594,247 ratings — published 1997
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,988 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 — 5,017 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 4.13 — 1,830 ratings — published 2018
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,744 ratings — published 2017
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,994 ratings — published 1997
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,895 ratings — published 2023
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,370 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 4.19 — 778 ratings — published 2011
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.04 — 657,133 ratings — published 2025
A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,596 ratings — published 2019
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,453 ratings — published 2007
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.00 — 402,680 ratings — published 1937
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,978 ratings — published 2011
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,168 ratings — published 2010
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 35,450 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 280 ratings — published 2020
Wildfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,761 ratings — published 2019
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,105 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 — 2,134 ratings — published 2017
Outrun the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,938 ratings — published 2016
The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,022 ratings — published 2015
Rain Reign (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 24,663 ratings — published 2014
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,877 ratings — published 2014
Torn Away (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,076 ratings — published 2014
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,078 ratings — published 2012
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.55 — 46,512 ratings — published 2025
The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 489 ratings — published
The Light Pirate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.03 — 47,347 ratings — published 2022
The Nature of Fragile Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.26 — 90,472 ratings — published 2021
I Am the Storm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,053 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 — 1,826 ratings — published 2020
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“Death is no respecter of persons. Natural disasters and pandemics are no respecters of nations.”
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