Disaster Books

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Some of the best books about disasters...of all types.
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Tragédie à l'Everest
de Jon Krakauer
14,070 membres
314 critiques
4.2
7 Members
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4
Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
de David Von Drehle
1,213 membres
34 critiques
3.9
5 Members
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5
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
de Simon Winchester
4,139 membres
122 critiques
3.8
5 Members
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6
La tempête
de Sebastian Junger
6,136 membres
93 critiques
3.9
5 Members
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8
La supplication. Tchernobyl, chroniques du monde après l'apocalypse
de Svetlana Alexievich
2,338 membres
78 critiques
½ 4.3
4 Members
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9
Flu
de Gina Kolata
1,275 membres
35 critiques
½ 3.7
5 Members
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11
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
de Sheri Fink
1,523 membres
168 critiques
4.1
4 Members
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12
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
de Erik Larson
4,068 membres
136 critiques
4
4 Members
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13
The Children's Blizzard
de David Laskin
1,688 membres
76 critiques
4
4 Members
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14
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
de Stewart O'Nan
584 membres
26 critiques
4
4 Members
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15
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
de David Cowan
236 membres
12 critiques
½ 4.4
4 Members
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16
Curse of The Narrows: The Halifax Disaster of 1917
de Laura M. Mac Donald
443 membres
21 critiques
4.1
4 Members
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17
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
de Stephen Puleo
737 membres
32 critiques
3.9
4 Members
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18
The Johnstown Flood
de David McCullough
2,262 membres
72 critiques
4
3 Members
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20
La Nuit du Titanic
de Walter Lord
2,978 membres
63 critiques
4.1
3 Members
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21
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
de Jim Dwyer
1,365 membres
50 critiques
4.1
3 Members
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23
The Triangle Fire
de Leon Stein
108 membres
1 critique
4.2
3 Members
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24
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
de John M. Barry
1,421 membres
26 critiques
4.2
3 Members
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25
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
de Douglas Brinkley
851 membres
19 critiques
4
2 Members
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26
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
de Brian Fagan
376 membres
6 critiques
½ 3.6
2 Members
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27
The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
de John N. Maclean
52 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
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28
The Town that Died: a chronicle of the Halifax Disaster
de Michael J. Bird
110 membres
2 critiques
3.9
2 Members
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29
Zeitoun
de Dave Eggers
4,202 membres
181 critiques
4.1
2 Members
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30
Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
de Anthony P. Hatch
71 membres
6 critiques
½ 4.3
2 Members
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31
Laissé pour mort à l'Everest
de Beck Weathers
463 membres
17 critiques
3.2
2 Members
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32
Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces
de Robert Clark
236 membres
4 critiques
4.1
Member
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35
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
de John Barylick
87 membres
13 critiques
½ 4.3
2 Members
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36
Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
de Daniel James Brown
342 membres
14 critiques
4.2
2 Members
Helcura, oregonobsessionz
37
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
de Simon Winchester
2,277 membres
66 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
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38
La part du feu
de Norman Maclean
1,216 membres
18 critiques
4
2 Members
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39
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
de John C. Esposito
128 membres
9 critiques
4
2 Members
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40
Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
de Nat Brandt
81 membres
3 critiques
4
2 Members
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41
Trapped: The 1909 Cherry Mine Disaster
de Karen Tintori
97 membres
3 critiques
4
2 Members
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42
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
de Michael Punke
81 membres
3 critiques
4
2 Members
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43
Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
de Steve Olson
258 membres
16 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
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44
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
de David Quammen
172 membres
5 critiques
4
2 Members
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45
Pourquoi ça tombe ?
de Matthys Levy
605 membres
11 critiques
4
Member
aulsmith
46
Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
de David Rutledge
94 membres
5 critiques
3.9
Member
hipdeep
47
1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
de Chris Rose
618 membres
27 critiques
4.2
Member
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48
Paris Sur l'Avenir
de Nathaniel Rich
302 membres
11 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
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49
Slayers, Saviors, Servants, and Sex: An Exposé of Kingdom Fungi
de David Moore
9 membres
4
Member
aulsmith
50
Zones of Exclusion: Pripyat and Chernobyl
de Robert Polidori
86 membres
2 critiques
4.2
Member
aulsmith
51
Robert Polidori: After the Flood
de Robert Polidori
72 membres
1 critique
½ 4.6
Member
aulsmith
52
Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion and the Road to Recovery
de Janet F. Kitz
81 membres
6 critiques
3.9
Member
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Shifting shores : rising seas, retreating coastlines
de Jeff Hecht
4 membres
1 critique
5
Member
aulsmith
54
Les Iks. Survivre par la cruauté, Nord-Ouganda
de Colin M. Turnbull
465 membres
5 critiques
4
Member
aulsmith
55
The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
de James J. O'Donnell
369 membres
6 critiques
3.8
Member
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56
Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
de Dan Kurzman
123 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
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The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925
de Wallace E. Akin
45 membres
1 critique
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
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When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
de Brian Hicks
99 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Helcura
59
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
de Rachel Slade
238 membres
12 critiques
4.1
Member
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60
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
de Anatoli Boukreev
1,138 membres
30 critiques
½ 3.7
2 Members
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61
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
de R. A. Scotti
501 membres
12 critiques
4
Member
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62
From the Ashes: The Story of the Hinckley Fire of 1894
de Grace Stageberg Swenson
18 membres
1 critique
5
Member
Helcura
64
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
de Timothy Egan
1,431 membres
67 critiques
4
Member
oregonobsessionz
65
Pris dans les glaces
de Jennifer Niven
652 membres
12 critiques
4.1
Member
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66
Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
de Kate Brown
116 membres
5 critiques
4
Member
cataloga
68
Underground
de Haruki Murakami
2,581 membres
60 critiques
3.8
Member
Helcura
69
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
de Kate Brown
180 membres
10 critiques
4.1
Member
cataloga
70
Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten
de Kate Brown
57 membres
2 critiques
3.9
Member
cataloga
71
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
de Randy Shilts
2,916 membres
63 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
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