book lists All books read since the Society’s founding alphabetical list list by date read disaster stories Books selected by each society member Brother Alpert Brother Fee Brother Karrow Brother Morris Brother Strokosch Annual “Best of” rankings 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 brother strokosch's selected books 47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster (2004) by O. Henry Mace Assassination Vacation (2005) by Sarah Vowell The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents (1998) by Malcolm MacPherson The Children’s Blizzard (2004) by David Laskin The Circus Fire: A True Story (2000) by Stewart O’Nan Corelli’s Mandolin (1994) by Louis De Bernieres Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917 (2005) by Laura M. MacDonald Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (2003) by Stephen Puleo The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (2003) by Erik Larson Eastland: Legacy of the Titanic (1995) by George W. Hilton F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the 20th Century (2007) by Mark Levine Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History (2002) by Denise Gess and William Lutz In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of Whaleship Essex (2000) by Nathaniel Philbrick The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (2000) by Miles Harvey The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter (2011) by Mark Seal Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier (2004) by Alfred F. Young Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000) by David Sedaris Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (2000) by Stephen E. Ambrose Ordinary Wolves (2004) by Seth Kantner The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America’s Dilemma (1998) by Alex Kotlowitz Painter in a Savage Land (2008) by Miles Harvey The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds (2003) by Mike Stanton Red China Blues (1996) by Jan Wong The Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (1998) by John Barry Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II (2004) by Robert Kurson Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul (2007) by Karen Abbott The Terrible Hours (1999) by Peter Maas The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003) by Audrey Niffenegger Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2003) by David von Drehle Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure (2001) by Don & Petie Kladstrup The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (2006) by Timothy Egan send comments, fan mail, and miscellany to bibliophilicsociety@gmail.com webmistress caitlin strokosch © 2006-2011