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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 38 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,741 ratings — published 1999
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,243 ratings — published 2003
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.93 — 42,337 ratings — published 2013
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,534 ratings — published 2004
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 26,281 ratings — published 1968
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 134,725 ratings — published 2006
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 4.25 — 2,558 ratings — published 2015
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,063 ratings — published 2016
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 — 63,737 ratings — published 2005
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,986 ratings — published 2008
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,272 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 — 1,053 ratings — published 2015
Wave (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,516 ratings — published 2013
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,048 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 — 3,246 ratings — published 2006
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,676 ratings — published 2009
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.26 — 584,995 ratings — published 1997
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 — 5,965 ratings — published 1997
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,871 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 — 4,900 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 — 1,807 ratings — published 2018
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,344 ratings — published 1997
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,391 ratings — published 2023
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,234 ratings — published 2021
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,518 ratings — published 2017
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,331 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 — 764 ratings — published 2011
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.07 — 557,431 ratings — published 2025
A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,570 ratings — published 2019
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,081 ratings — published 2005
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 — 2,423 ratings — published 2007
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 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,976 ratings — published 2015
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,861 ratings — published 2011
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,133 ratings — published 2010
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 35,267 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 277 ratings — published 2020
Wildfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,690 ratings — published 2019
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 — 2,096 ratings — published 2017
Outrun the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,849 ratings — published 2016
Rain Reign (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 24,572 ratings — published 2014
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 397,525 ratings — published 1937
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,861 ratings — published 2014
Torn Away (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,057 ratings — published 2014
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,966 ratings — published 2012
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.55 — 42,920 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 — 478 ratings — published
The Light Pirate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.03 — 45,976 ratings — published 2022
I Am the Storm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,039 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 4.06 — 1,784 ratings — published 2020
The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.48 — 875 ratings — published 2019
“Humans and nature can never be friends!
Nature will never hesitate to starve you in the drought, drown you in the rain, burn you in the sun, and kill you with an earthquake, a hurricane or a disease; and as such, nature should always be seen as an enemy not a friend.”
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Nature will never hesitate to starve you in the drought, drown you in the rain, burn you in the sun, and kill you with an earthquake, a hurricane or a disease; and as such, nature should always be seen as an enemy not a friend.”
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“The quake experience stays in our hearts, ready to strike again with greater force. Memory looms with the potential to return.”
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