The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

Steve Olson

Radium Girls

Cy. Cy.

Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses

M.G. Sheftall

Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster

Kate Brown

Chain Reactions: A Hopeful History of Uranium

Lucy Jane Santos

Barefoot Gen, Volume 1 (Barefoot Gen, #1)

Keiji Nakazawa

Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Kate Brown

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

Garrett M. Graff

Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America

Joshua Frank

Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

James Mahaffey

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Richard Rhodes

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl (Penguin Modern Classics)

Svetlana Alexievich

Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Serhii Plokhy

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout

Lauren Redniss

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

Dava Sobel

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Svetlana Alexievich

A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)

Walter M. Miller Jr.

Swan Song

Robert McCammon

On the Beach

Nevil Shute

Alas, Babylon

Pat Frank

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

Kate Moore

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Denise Kiernan