The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

John Vaillant

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew

Brian Hicks

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Jonathan Kennedy

The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston

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

David Grann

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