“Hey do you remember [insert horrible event here]? I should read a book about that.”
Books on disasters, horrible events, and scientific blunders.
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created by Ishkabibble
last updated December, 2025
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Stephen Puleo
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World (MacSci)
Robert Emmet Hernan
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
Erik Larson
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Daniel James Brown
The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
Al Roker
The Children's Blizzard
David Laskin
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
Hiroshima
John Hersey
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
Kate Moore
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