Good Reads - Nonfiction

Earth, Wind, & Fire: Real Life Disasters

363.12 HUC
K–19, the Widowmaker: The Secret Story of the Soviet Nuclear Submarine by Peter A. Huchthausen

363.179 LAP
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal by Dominique Lapierre

363.1799/HUC
Hostile Waters by Peter A. Huchthausen

796.522/SIM
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

910.45/CAL
Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan

910.453/HEM
Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Robert J. Hemming

910.916345 MAA
The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue by Peter Maas

910.9164 PHI
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nat Philbrick

919.89 ALE
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander

972.982 ZEB
The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed Thirty Thousand Lives by Ernest Zebrowski

974.63 ONA
The Circus Fire: A True Story by Stewart O'Nan

974.877 MCC
The Johnstown Flood by David G. McCullough

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

977.311 EVE
The Great Chicago Theater Disaster: The Complete Story Told by the Survivors by Marshall Everett

977.533 GES
Firestorm at Peshtigo by Denise Gess

979.461 KUR
Disaster!: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 by Dan Kurzman

Prepared by Lisa Bobis, September 2002