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Characteristic works
Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 by Nat Brandt (8), Darkest Hours: A Narrative Encyclopedia of Worldwide Disasters from Ancient Times to the Present by Jay Robert Nash (7), Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath by John C. Esposito (8), Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology by James R. Chiles (10), White Hurricane: A Great Lakes November Gale and America's Deadliest Maritime Disaster by David G. Brown (6), The Texas City Disaster, 1947 by Hugh W. Stephens (5), When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake by Brian Hicks (6), Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 by Daniel James Brown (8), Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917 by Laura M. MacDonald (10), The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche by Gary Krist (8), Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry (16), When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes by Jay Feldman (8), Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America by Ted Steinberg (5), To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire by David Cowan (7), Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo (10), Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R. A. Scotti (9), Murder at Wrigley Field by Troy Soos (5), Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster by Karen Tintori (5), Wreck of the Carl D.: A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea by Michael Schumacher (4), The Great Hurricane 1938 by Cherie Burns (5), The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede (7), Flu by Gina Kolata (12), A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit (6), Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow (6), American Ground by William Langewiesche (7)
Most-held works
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson (21), To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (20), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J. K. Rowling (20), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (19), The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (19), Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (19), The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry (18), Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (18), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (18), William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare (18), Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (18), Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (18), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (18), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (17), The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (17), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (17), Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach (16), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (16), Animal Farm by George Orwell (16), Moby Dick by Herman Melville (16), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (16), Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry (16), The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough (16), Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (16), Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond (15)
