Disaster Books

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Some of the best books about disasters...of all types.
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
15,744 members
344 reviews
4.2
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Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
by David Von Drehle
1,369 members
34 reviews
3.9
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
4,644 members
129 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger
6,768 members
103 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
2,910 members
98 reviews
½ 4.4
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Flu
by Gina Kolata
1,411 members
37 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared M. Diamond
13,415 members
189 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
by Sheri Fink
1,802 members
174 reviews
4.1
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by Erik Larson
4,735 members
149 reviews
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The Children's Blizzard
by David Laskin
1,874 members
86 reviews
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The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
by Stewart O'Nan
638 members
27 reviews
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
by David Cowan
254 members
12 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917
by Laura M. MacDonald
465 members
22 reviews
4.1
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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
by Stephen Puleo
826 members
32 reviews
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The Johnstown Flood
by David McCullough
2,595 members
80 reviews
4.1
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A Night to Remember
by Walter Lord
3,491 members
72 reviews
4.1
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by Jim Dwyer
1,511 members
50 reviews
4.1
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The Triangle Fire
by Leon Stein
122 members
1 review
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
by John M. Barry
1,579 members
31 reviews
4.2
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Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
by John Barylick
102 members
13 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
by Brian Fagan
409 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
by John N. Maclean
63 members
2 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Town that Died: a chronicle of the Halifax Disaster
by Michael J. Bird
122 members
2 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers
4,547 members
190 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
by Anthony P. Hatch
77 members
7 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
by Beck Weathers
545 members
20 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces
by Robert Clark
257 members
4 reviews
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Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
by Daniel James Brown
402 members
18 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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Young Men and Fire
by Norman Maclean
1,374 members
21 reviews
4
2 Members
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Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
by John C. Esposito
137 members
9 reviews
4
2 Members
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
by Nat Brandt
88 members
3 reviews
4
2 Members
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Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
by Karen Tintori
104 members
3 reviews
4
2 Members
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Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
by Michael Punke
112 members
3 reviews
4
2 Members
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Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
by Steve Olson
317 members
19 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
by David Quammen
240 members
8 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
by Matthys Levy
653 members
11 reviews
3.9
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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
by David Rutledge
97 members
5 reviews
3.9
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1 Dead in Attic
by Chris Rose
671 members
29 reviews
4.2
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Odds against Tomorrow
by Nathaniel Rich
334 members
12 reviews
½ 3.4
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Slayers, Saviors, Servants, and Sex: An Exposé of Kingdom Fungi
by David Moore
11 members
4
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Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
by Robert Polidori
98 members
2 reviews
4.2
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Robert Polidori: After the Flood
by Robert Polidori
86 members
1 review
½ 4.6
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Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery
by Janet F. Kitz
99 members
7 reviews
3.9
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Shifting shores : rising seas, retreating coastlines
by Jeff Hecht
5 members
1 review
5
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The Mountain People
by Colin M. Turnbull
509 members
5 reviews
4
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The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
by James J. O'Donnell
406 members
6 reviews
3.8
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Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
by Dan Kurzman
136 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925
by Wallace E. Akin
49 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson
6,133 members
306 reviews
4.1
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When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
by Brian Hicks
106 members
4 reviews
3.8
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
by Rachel Slade
311 members
15 reviews
4.1
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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
by Anatoli Boukreev
1,255 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
by R. A. Scotti
572 members
12 reviews
4
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From the Ashes: The Story of the Hinckley Fire of 1894
by Grace Stageberg Swenson
19 members
1 review
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by Timothy Egan
1,637 members
77 reviews
4
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The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk
by Jennifer Niven
738 members
13 reviews
4.1
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Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
by Kate Brown
148 members
5 reviews
4
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
by Haruki Murakami
2,886 members
65 reviews
3.8
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Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten
by Kate Brown
62 members
2 reviews
4.1
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Randy Shilts
3,265 members
63 reviews
½ 4.4
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Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
by Jacob Soboroff
62 members
3 reviews
3.2
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