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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 — 75,362 ratings — published 1999
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,352 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 — 42,705 ratings — published 2013
The Johnstown Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,503 ratings — published 1968
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 134,973 ratings — published 2006
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 — 64,208 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 4.25 — 2,597 ratings — published 2015
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,117 ratings — published 2016
The Children's Blizzard (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,637 ratings — published 2004
Zeitoun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 80,792 ratings — published 2009
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.85 — 43,105 ratings — published 2008
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,285 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 — 1,080 ratings — published 2015
Wave (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.80 — 23,656 ratings — published 2013
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,085 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 — 3,263 ratings — published 2006
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 — 5,988 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 — 590,207 ratings — published 1997
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,954 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 — 4,967 ratings — published 2006
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,296 ratings — published 2021
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 — 1,818 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 — 120,722 ratings — published 1997
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,685 ratings — published 2023
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,650 ratings — published 2017
A Crack in the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,355 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 — 775 ratings — published 2011
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 613,627 ratings — published 2025
A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,588 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 — 2,437 ratings — published 2007
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,908 ratings — published 2011
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,153 ratings — published 2010
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.79 — 35,351 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 — 3,723 ratings — published 2019
1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,094 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 — 2,116 ratings — published 2017
Outrun the Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,878 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 — 2,000 ratings — published 2015
Rain Reign (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.22 — 24,627 ratings — published 2014
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.00 — 400,346 ratings — published 1937
Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,871 ratings — published 2014
Torn Away (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,067 ratings — published 2014
I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,021 ratings — published 2012
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 3.55 — 45,057 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 — 482 ratings — published
The Light Pirate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.03 — 46,735 ratings — published 2022
I Am the Storm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,049 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 — 1,806 ratings — published 2020
The Phone Booth in Mr. Hirota's Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as natural-disasters)
avg rating 4.48 — 883 ratings — published 2019
“Earthquakes traveling through the interior of the globe are like so many messengers sent out to explore a new land. The messages are constantly coming and seismologists are fast learning to read them.”
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“That natural disasters are required to provide Americans with a glimpse of reality in their own country is an indication of the deep rot infecting the official political culture.”
― The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
― The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
