Disasters, Tragedies, and Accidents
2. 
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
by:
Sheri Fink
3.93 avg rating — 39,331 ratings 
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Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
by:
Hugh Brewster
3.97 avg rating — 2,769 ratings 8. 
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by:
Erik Larson
4.05 avg rating — 70,018 ratings 
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Diaster
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.26 avg rating — 550,978 ratings 11. 
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by:
Simon Winchester
3.88 avg rating — 21,503 ratings 12. 
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
by:
Michael Capuzzo
3.87 avg rating — 6,879 ratings 13. 
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
by:
Douglas Brinkley
4.17 avg rating — 3,064 ratings 
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families 4.22 avg rating — 35,953 ratings
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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
by:
Timothy Egan
4.14 avg rating — 17,867 ratings 
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings 20. 
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
by:
Amanda Ripley
4.19 avg rating — 9,189 ratings 21. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,256 ratings 
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Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917
by:
Laura Mac Donald
3.98 avg rating — 1,182 ratings 24. 
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
by:
Greg King
4.04 avg rating — 1,652 ratings 25. 
City on Fire: The Forgotten Disaster That Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle
by:
Bill Minutaglio
4.21 avg rating — 302 ratings 
29. 
Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
by:
Denise Gess
3.87 avg rating — 848 ratings 
31. 
The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
by:
Gary Krist
3.99 avg rating — 2,290 ratings 32. 
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes
by:
Jay Feldman
3.76 avg rating — 738 ratings 33. 
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Dark Tide: the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
by:
Stephen Puleo
4.02 avg rating — 5,025 ratings 35. 
The Dreadful Judgement: The True Story of the Great Fire of London
by:
Neil Hanson
3.75 avg rating — 286 ratings 36. 
Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
by:
John Barylick
4.37 avg rating — 1,221 ratings 37. 
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America 4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
by:
Gina Kolata
3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings 
43. 
Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
by:
John C. Esposito
4.03 avg rating — 637 ratings 44. 
What Stands in a Storm: Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
by:
Kim Cross
4.25 avg rating — 2,316 ratings 45. 
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Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
by:
Violet Jessop
3.87 avg rating — 1,616 ratings 48. 
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster 4.18 avg rating — 2,222 ratings
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
by:
David Grann
3.90 avg rating — 106,826 ratings 50. 
Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
by:
Rob Mundle
4.17 avg rating — 680 ratings 51. 
3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
by:
Sean Flynn
4.42 avg rating — 680 ratings 52. 
The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
by:
Stewart O'Nan
3.96 avg rating — 2,772 ratings 53. 
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
by:
Laura Spinney
3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings 
54. 
The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the ”Unsinkable” Ship — TITANIC!
by:
Walter Lord
4.10 avg rating — 2,546 ratings 
58. 
Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
by:
Dan Kurzman
3.72 avg rating — 138 ratings 59. 
The Winecoff Fire: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Hotel Fire
by:
Sam Heys
4.29 avg rating — 153 ratings 
61. 
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami That Could Devastate North America
by:
Jerry Thompson
4.18 avg rating — 740 ratings 
63. 
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity
by:
David Kirby
4.27 avg rating — 3,610 ratings 
66. 
When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
by:
Brian Hicks
3.91 avg rating — 314 ratings 
70. 
The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone
by:
McKay Jenkins
3.72 avg rating — 137 ratings 
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Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
by:
John N. Maclean
4.16 avg rating — 1,527 ratings 
75. 
Saved: The Story of the Andrea Doria..the Greatest Sea Rescue in History
by:
William Hoffer
3.98 avg rating — 149 ratings 
77. 
Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do 4.07 avg rating — 871 ratings
79. 
Shadow Play: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
by:
William Klaber
4.02 avg rating — 120 ratings 80. 
The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History 3.43 avg rating — 1,264 ratings
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Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
by:
Charles Perrow
4.04 avg rating — 675 ratings 86. 
Red Light to Starboard: Recalling the "Exxon Valdez" Disaster
by:
Angela Day
3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings 87. 
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
by:
Eric Klinenberg
3.91 avg rating — 1,231 ratings 
92. 
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,425 ratings 93. 
In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens
by:
Richard Waitt
4.27 avg rating — 103 ratings 
95. 
The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925
by:
Wallace E. Akin
3.95 avg rating — 153 ratings 
96. 
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory 3.76 avg rating — 2,119 ratings
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Scalded to Death by the Steam: Authentic Stories of Railroad Disasters and the Ballads That Were Written About Them 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
