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BingoDOG - Books With Natural Disasters: Fiction

Description: This list was created to collect recommendations for the BingDOG 2015 challenge, but anyone is welcome to contribute books.

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,240 members

470 reviews

4.1

3 Members: inge87, aulsmith, spiphany
Explanations: aulsmith: Dust Bowl, drought

2

by Pearl S. Buck

13,852 members

265 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, cbl_tn

3

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

10,056 members

96 reviews

4.2

2 Members: inge87, aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Blizzard

4

Nights in Rodanthe

by Nicholas Sparks

5,563 members

80 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: hurricane

5

Salvage the Bones

2,876 members

162 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LittleTaiko, Tanya-dogearedcopy

6

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

21,901 members

423 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Tornado

7

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,096 members

345 reviews

4

2 Members: spiphany, Her_Royal_Orangeness,
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Hurricane. Lake Okeechobee. 1928.

8

by Dennis Lehane

7,495 members

299 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Hurricane Carol. 1954.

9

by Robert Morgan

2,865 members

55 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

10

2,398 members

39 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Hurricane

11

by Catherine Marshall

1,139 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

12

by Sandra Brown

1,100 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

13

The Scent of Rain and Lightning

by Nancy Pickard

1,040 members

82 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

14

The Virgin of Small Plains

by Nancy Pickard

821 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

15

One Amazing Thing

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

760 members

123 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany

16

466 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: DeltaQueen50

17

Whiter Than Snow

by Sandra Dallas

333 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: cbl_tn

18

The Breathtaker

by Alice Blanchard

331 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

19

The Stormchasers

301 members

22 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

20

by Ann Weisgarber

214 members

25 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Hurricane. Galveston, Texas. 1900.

21

Falling to Earth

by Kate Southwood

143 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Tornado. Illinois. 1925.

22

by Paul Quarrington

123 members

6 reviews

3.2

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: hurricane

23

by Monique Roffey

95 members

1 review

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Father & daughter cope in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

24

The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish

by Elise Blackwell

66 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Great Mississippi Flood, 1927

25

The Last Nightingale

by Anthony Flacco

51 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: DeltaQueen50

26

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,378 members

116 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith,
Explanations: aulsmith: Flood

27

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

3,315 members

335 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: electrice,

28

The Fire's Stone

595 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness,
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: volcano

29

The Lesser Kindred

by Elizabeth Kerner

487 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness,
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: volcano

30

Gardens of Water

459 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cbl_tn,

31

Without a Summer

by Mary Robinette Kowal

428 members

42 reviews

3.9

Member: inge87,

32

Dark of the Sun

by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

162 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness,
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: volcano

33

by Franz Hohler

23 members

1 review

4.2

Member: spiphany,

34

Life as We Knew It

by Susan Beth Pfeffer

5,281 members

402 reviews

4

35

Lucifer's Hammer

4,310 members

70 reviews

3.9

36

The Drowned World

by J. G. Ballard

2,757 members

67 reviews

½ 3.4

37

The Last Policeman

by Ben H. Winters

2,114 members

185 reviews

3.8

38

A Plague on Both Your Houses

by Susanna Gregory

591 members

24 reviews

½ 3.6

39

The Paris Winter

by Imogen Robertson

294 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

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