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Society Books

Brother Strokosch's Selections

47 Down: The 1922 Argonaut Gold Mine Disaster (2004)
by O. Henry Mace


Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-Two Days, and Insurmountable Odds - Survival in the Andes (2013)
by David Roberts


American Dirt (2020)
by Jeanine Cummins


Assassination Vacation (2005)
by Sarah Vowell


The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts of In-flight Accidents (1998)
by Malcolm MacPherson


Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy (2016)
by Heather Ann Thompson


Chicago’s Great Fire (2020)

by Carl S. Smith


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


The Devil's Highway: A True Story (2005)
by Luis Alberto Urrea


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


The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World (2006)
by Steven Johnson


The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor Nero and his City (2010)

by Stephen Dando-Collins


Hostile Waters (1997)
by Peter Huchthausen, Igor Kurdin & Alan White


How the Battleship Maine was Destroyed (1976)
by Hyman George Rickover


Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man (2019)
by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic


In the Garden of Beasts (2011)
by Erik Larson


In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of Whaleship Essex (2000)
by Nathaniel Philbrick


In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (2014)
by Hampton Sides


The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime (2000)
by Miles Harvey


Isaac’s Storm: a Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (1999)
by Erik Larson


The Johnstown Flood (1968)
by David McCullough


Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert (2012)
by John Barylick


Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2017)
by David Grann


The Last Days of St. Pierre: The Volcanic Disaster that Claimed 30,000 Lives (2001)
by Ernest Zebrowski, Jr.


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


The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (2009)
by Robert Edsel


Nothing Like it in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 (2000)
by Stephen E. Ambrose


Old Man and the Sea (1952)

by Ernest Hemingway


Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligance Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America (2014)
by Annie Jacobsen


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


San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires (2005)
by Dennis Smith


A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler (2006)
by Jason Roberts


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 Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (2018)
by Ben Macintyre


Stampede: Gold Fever and Disaster in the Klondike (2021)
by Brian Castner


The Terrible Hours (1999)
by Peter Maas


The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003)
by Audrey Niffenegger


Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 (2003)
by Anthony P. Hatch


Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison (2013)
by Michael Daly


Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (1988)
by John Ehle


Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (2003)
by David von Drehle


Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre (2019)
by Randy Krehbiel


Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinkley Firestorm of 1894 (2006)

by Daniel James Brown


The White Cascade: The Greatest Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (2007)
by Gary Krist


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


Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos (2010)
by Judy Pasternak

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