Good Reads - Nonfiction

Earth, Wind, & Fire: Real Life Disasters

155.9 RIP
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why by Amanda Ripley

363.7382 SAF
A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout by Carl Safina

551.22 FEL
When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes by Jay Feldman

551.3 FRE
Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches by Jill A. Fredston

551.46 PAR
The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters by Bruce B. Parker

551.553 LEV
F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century by Mark Levine

796.522 KRA
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

796.522 SIM
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

910.9163 TOU
Overboard!: A True Blue-Water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival by Mike Tougias

910.91649 SIL
Black Wave: A Family’s Adventure at Sea and the Disaster That Saved Them by John Silverwood

959.105 LAR
Everything Is Broken: A Tale of Catastrophe in Burma by Emma Larkin

959.3 KRA
Wave of Destruction: The Stories of Four Families and History’s Deadliest Tsunami by Erich Krauss

959.8 WIN
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester

972.94 FAR
Haiti After the Earthquake by Paul Farmer

976.335 HOR
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City by Jed Horne

976.4139 LAR
Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson

977.1 WEL
The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937 by David Welky

Prepared by Cheryl Fortman, November 2011