What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

I scrolled back to the start of 2021, but please let me know if there's already a thread worth reading. ;)

Excluding blizzards, because there are already two threads on being 'snowed in' that were snowed in with responses!

I have not read The Perfect Storm, but I have seen the movie...

I don't really mind the genre, and I like YA and children's books, too.

I especially like stories about tornadoes, perhaps with a little more realism than found in The Wizard of Oz, if possible. I have never seen one irl, nor that legendary 'green sky' which sometimes precedes one.

Sand or dust storms might also be cool.

Some books I have read that contained storms, off the top of my head:

Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Talking Earth
One Day on the Prairie
A Time of Wonder
When the Storm Comes
The Help

Many thanks in advance for your suggestions, fellow readers!

Safe as Houses (hurricane)
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World (tornado)
Ninth Ward (hurricane)
Salvage the Bones (hurricane)
The Grapes of Wrath (dust storms)
The Stormchasers (tornadoes)
Moon Tide (hurricane)
Out of the Dust (dust storms)
The Storm (cyclone)
The Uncertain Season (hurricane)

Promise
Hills End
Torn Away
Dust Storm!
Summer Storm
14 Hollow Road
Falling to Earth
Chasing Helicity
We Speak in Storms
Survival in the Storm
Night of the Twisters
The Gone Away Place
A Storm of Strawberries
Isabella's Above-Ground Pool
I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011
Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse

Kids:
Hurricane!
Hurricane
Hurricane
Hurricane

Older kids:
I Survived the Galveston Hurricane, 1900
Carrie and the Great Storm: A Galveston Hurricane Survival Story
I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011
Tara and the Towering Wave: An Indian Ocean Tsunami Survival Story
Blue Fin

YA:
The Great Storm: The Hurricane Diary of J. T. King, Galveston, Texas, 1900
You Are the Rain
Tornado!


Adults:
Hurricane Nurse
Breakout

Thanks, Paige, Rainbowheart, and ...cats? ♡

I have read The Grapes of Wrath - there are a few storms in there I had forgotten about!

Any with wild electrical storms? Lightning strikes, etc.?

For the sake of others, these are some others I really like:

children:
Thundercake
The Storm Book
The Big Storm by Bruce Hiscock, whose name sounds very WRONG if you say it quickly altogether, oh dear!

More Storm Stuff:

Kids:
A Penguin Named Patience: A Hurricane Katrina Rescue Story
When the Storm Comes
Cyclone
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie

Older kids:
Uragano

YA/Adult:
Those Who Wish Me Dead
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad, Fiction, Classics

Adult:
Camino Winds
Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
Typhoon Fury

Wonderful. Thanks, Paige!

Browsing my own bookshelves:
Winnie-the-Pooh has a flood, and The House at Pooh Corner a windstorm.

YA or romance:
The Opal-Eyed Fan by Andre Norton.

Adult:
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
The Forbidden Garden byUrsula Curtiss
Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber
Lady by Tom Tryon contains a storm but for some reason can't find a link to it.

Thanks, Denis! Yes, I have fond memories of listing to The House at Pooh Corner / Now We are Six on tape, and being thrilled with fear and excitement when Owl's home blows over! :) Could you have uncovered my "origin story" for this thread?!

These others I am unfamiliar with - many thanks!

The Forbidden Garden, in fact, takes place in the USA southwest, and storms are a kind of ongoing motif, as you may say, throughout the book. I can promise you, you DON'T want to see a funnel cloud or it's precursors; I live in Joplin MO, USA and some years ago a category 5 tornado decimated about 1/3 of my beloved city. It was some days before I could find out whether my friends were okay or not.

Electrical storms and lightning strikes!

Struck
Jolted
Fire Pony
Gargantis
Lucky Strike
Beautiful Storm
The Mallory Burn
The Marowack Two
The Lightning Catcher
The Odds of Lightning
Joshua and the Lightning Road

Oh, Denis - I am sorry. Yes, that Joplin tornado was an absolute horror. Not cool when they hit populated areas, and not cool at an EF-5, either!!! Gosh, I am sorry. Thanks also for the recommendation.

Rainbowheart - you are amazing! My to-read shelf runneth over!! ;) Thanks!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-can...

I have been thinking about this ever since it was first reported. The horror of it is all the greater to me after thinking of Denis' own experience with the Joplin tornado. Whole towns gone. It is more than I can imagine. And now I have a greater appreciation for those people who perhaps may not have lost loved ones (we pray), but will be left in a miserable state of unknowing for quite some time. Now I can only imagine the rebuilding process, and how nothing will ever be the same again for so many people, especially those who have lost their family members, friends, neighbours, acquaintences, entirr neighbourhoods,....!

I know this is not the place to share my thoughts, but I have been feeling so guilty as this post was, unbeknownst to me at the time, very poorly timed.

So I would just like to state my regret in my distasteful timing, and say that I would infinitely rather read about fictional natural disasters in books than to read or see accounts in the news.

Capn, I don't believe anyone would fault your timing; we who've been through it are deeply mindful of your appreciation of this kind of situation. And you're absolutely right, much better to read about it than experience it!

Your questions and requests have prompted me to pull down some old favorites from the shelf; currently rereading Watership Down. Seems to me I remember a storm or two in it.

I love Watership Down!!! Good call!

Thanks, Denis
♡ :)

It was so stupid when it first came out! You'd tell your friends that you just finished the most amazing book, they'd ask what it was about, and you'd say "It's -- um, -- well, it's about -- rabbits..." That's not at all what it's about, of course, but that was the gut reaction back then.

By the way, might not be your cuppa joe, but have you read the book to which Adams repeatedly refers, The Private Life Of The Rabbit; An Account Of The Life History And Social Behavior Of The Wild Rabbit? Had to get it on interlibrary loan, and it was totally fascinating!

Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere YA - Hurricane Katrina

Thank you, Shanna

Denis - I absolutely assumed that this was a fictitious reference volume! How funny! Thanks for letting me know that it does exist!

There was an artist on Etsy (SarahCoomerShop) who made a stunning black and white print of The Black Rabbit of Inlé. Unfortunately, I didn't purchase it at the time, and it is no longer listed (though I bet you could still enquire). I have one of hers from The Dark is Rising (The Walker). Fabulous stuff - I love art on the walls to remind me of favourite stories!

More hurricanes!

In Hazard
Hurricane
Storm Blown
Meet the Sky
Storm Runners
Hurricane Song
Rushing Waters
City of the Dead
Dark Water Rising
Carolina Hurricane
Finding Someplace
Hurricane Summer
Between Two Skies
Terror at Bottle Creek
This Is the Story of You
Zane and the Hurricane
Skylark and Wallcreeper
A Hundred Hours of Night
The Summer After You and Me
I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005

Whoa, a storm surge of books! Thanks, Rainbowheart! :D

Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles Each Little Bird that Sings

Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea

Little Vic by Doris Gates Little Vic

Thanks! Gee, I don't even remember the storm in Anne of Avonlea anymore! Been a few decades..! ;)

Also Wyatt's Hurricane by Desmond Bagley .

Thank you!

More tornadoes!

Vortex
Twister
Tornado
Death Wind
Storm Season
Tornado Alley
About Average
A Bird Will Soar
The Waiting Sky
Good Hope Road
The Talent Show
Jack vs. the Tornado
The Tornado Chasers
A Horse Came Running

Twister on Tuesday
The Wide Window
The Magic School Bus Inside a Hurricane
Twister Trouble

Wow, thanks, R & R!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_(... I only read the RD version, but recall loving it. The storm is treated as the main character, Mariah- and now you know where that came from! In WWII soldiers were given freebie books, printed two-by- two on magazine presses, then cut in two... this was one of them.