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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 72,591 ratings — published 1999
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded [August 27, 1883] (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,896 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 — 41,087 ratings — published 2013
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 133,526 ratings — published 2006
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,162 ratings — published 2004
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.13 — 25,478 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 — 61,948 ratings — published 2005
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,442 ratings — published 2015
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,919 ratings — published 2016
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,505 ratings — published 2008
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,190 ratings — published 2015
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,878 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 — 3,171 ratings — published 2006
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,164 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 — 1,007 ratings — published 2015
Wave (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,099 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 — 5,857 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 — 569,812 ratings — published 1997
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,810 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 — 4,720 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 — 1,771 ratings — published 2018
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,171 ratings — published 2017
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,156 ratings — published 1997
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,253 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 — 755 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 — 2,973 ratings — published 2021
A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,517 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 4.00 — 2,356 ratings — published 2007
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,647 ratings — published 2011
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,054 ratings — published 2010
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 34,918 ratings — published 2010
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.57 — 31,342 ratings — published 2025
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,622 ratings — published 2023
Beyond Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.80 — 268 ratings — published 2020
Wildfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,560 ratings — published 2019
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,029 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 — 2,043 ratings — published 2017
Outrun the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,727 ratings — published 2016
Rain Reign (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 24,299 ratings — published 2014
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 387,307 ratings — published 1937
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,801 ratings — published 2014
Torn Away (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,021 ratings — published 2014
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,701 ratings — published 2012
The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 458 ratings — published
I Am the Storm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,018 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 — 1,723 ratings — published 2020
The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.48 — 849 ratings — published 2019
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,593 ratings — published 2008
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,273 ratings — published 2002
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.78 — 568 ratings — published 2013
“If people do not die when measures are taken against a natural disaster, the name of natural disaster deaths when measures are not taken is nothing but murder!”
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“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and which has fissures and faults in its crust; this much is accepted even by those who think that the globe is only six thousand years old, as well as by those who believe that the earth was "designed" to be this way. Even in such a case, it is to be expected that earthquakes will occur and that, if they occur under the seabed, tidal waves will occur also. Yet two sorts of error are still absolutely commonplace. The first of these is the idiotic belief that seismic events are somehow "timed" to express the will of God. Thus, reasoning back from the effect, people will seriously attempt to guess what sin or which profanity led to the verdict of the tectonic plates. The second error, common even among humanists, is to borrow the same fallacy for satirical purposes and to employ it to disprove a benign deity.”
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