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BingoDOG - Books With Natural Disasters: Fiction

Description: This list was created to collect recommendations for the BingDOG 2015 challenge, but anyone is welcome to contribute books.

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

34,519 members

478 reviews

4.1

3 Members: inge87, aulsmith, spiphany
Explanations: aulsmith: Dust Bowl, drought

2

by Pearl S. Buck

13,948 members

264 reviews

4

2 Members: aulsmith, cbl_tn

3

The Long Winter

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

10,196 members

96 reviews

4.2

2 Members: inge87, aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Blizzard

4

Nights in Rodanthe

by Nicholas Sparks

5,608 members

81 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: hurricane

5

Salvage the Bones

2,924 members

162 reviews

3.9

2 Members: LittleTaiko, Tanya-dogearedcopy

6

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

22,203 members

424 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Tornado

7

Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston

19,262 members

348 reviews

4

2 Members: spiphany, Her_Royal_Orangeness,
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Hurricane. Lake Okeechobee. 1928.

8

by Dennis Lehane

7,534 members

300 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Hurricane Carol. 1954.

9

by Robert Morgan

2,888 members

55 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

10

2,415 members

40 reviews

3.8

Member: aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Hurricane

11

by Catherine Marshall

1,151 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

12

by Sandra Brown

1,121 members

32 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

13

The Scent of Rain and Lightning

by Nancy Pickard

1,046 members

82 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

14

The Virgin of Small Plains

by Nancy Pickard

822 members

50 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

15

One Amazing Thing

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

762 members

123 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: spiphany

16

471 members

34 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: DeltaQueen50

17

Whiter Than Snow

by Sandra Dallas

335 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: cbl_tn

18

The Breathtaker

by Alice Blanchard

332 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

19

The Stormchasers

304 members

22 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

20

by Ann Weisgarber

213 members

25 reviews

4

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Hurricane. Galveston, Texas. 1900.

21

Falling to Earth

by Kate Southwood

146 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Tornado. Illinois. 1925.

22

by Paul Quarrington

124 members

6 reviews

3.2

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: hurricane

23

by Monique Roffey

96 members

1 review

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Father & daughter cope in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

24

The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish

by Elise Blackwell

66 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: Great Mississippi Flood, 1927

25

The Last Nightingale

by Anthony Flacco

51 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: DeltaQueen50

26

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

4,419 members

116 reviews

4

Member: aulsmith,
Explanations: aulsmith: Flood

27

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

3,326 members

336 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: electrice,

28

The Fire's Stone

600 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness,
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: volcano

29

The Lesser Kindred

by Elizabeth Kerner

488 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness,
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: volcano

30

Gardens of Water

461 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: cbl_tn,

31

Without a Summer

by Mary Robinette Kowal

432 members

42 reviews

3.9

Member: inge87,

32

Dark of the Sun

by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

163 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Her_Royal_Orangeness,
Explanations: Her_Royal_Orangeness: volcano

33

by Franz Hohler

23 members

1 review

4.2

Member: spiphany,

34

Life as We Knew It

by Susan Beth Pfeffer

5,314 members

402 reviews

4

35

Lucifer's Hammer

4,329 members

70 reviews

3.9

36

The Drowned World

by J. G. Ballard

2,778 members

67 reviews

½ 3.4

37

The Last Policeman

by Ben H. Winters

2,126 members

185 reviews

3.8

38

A Plague on Both Your Houses

by Susanna Gregory

600 members

25 reviews

½ 3.5

39

The Paris Winter

by Imogen Robertson

297 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

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