18 Best historical books like Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever by Geoff Williams

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Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever

By: Geoff Williams

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. …

If you liked the historical plot in Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever by Geoff Williams , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

By: Stephen Puleo

4.01

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

This edition is no longer in print. Please check  9780807078006 for the most recent edition. Aro… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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2. Black Like Me

By: John Howard Griffin

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Usi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Now you go into oblivion."

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

"We need a conversion of morals,"

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

"Night coming tenderly Black like me."

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

"In the context of today, this WAS heroism."

-John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

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3. The Railway Children

By: E. Nesbit

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more

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  • historical
"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

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4. Our Town

By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more

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5. Ten Days in a Mad-House

By: Nellie Bly

3.70

Format: 186 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever

By: Geoff Williams

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. … read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science

7. Mr. Dickens and His Carol: A Novel of Christmas Past

By: Samantha Silva

3.81

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Shakespeare in Lovemeets A Christmas Carolin this transporting debut novel set during the whirlwind… read more

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8. The Atomic City Girls: A Novel

By: Janet Beard

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figuresand The Wives of Los Alamos, comes a riveting novel o… read more

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9. By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.61

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

Laura and her family are head to the Dakota Territory for a chance to own their own land--and stop … read more

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10. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott

By: Kelly O'Connor McNees

3.87

Format: 272 pages,

A richly imagined, remarkably written story of the woman who created Little Women- and how love cha… read more

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11. The Story of Arthur Truluv

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful, life-affirming novel about a remarkably loving man who creates for himself and others … read more

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12. My Own Words

By: Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Mary Hartnett , Wendy W. Williams

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a witty, en… read more

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13. Nothing Else But Miracles

By: Kate Albus

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy … read more

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  • historical
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14. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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15. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

By: Dan Egan

4.23

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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16. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

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  • historical
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17. Our Darkest Night

By: Jennifer Robson

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unfor… read more

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  • historical
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18. Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History

By: Kevin Maurer

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Kevin Maurer―the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning coauthor of No Easy Day ―comes t… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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19. Switchboard Soldiers

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.07

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini, a bold, revelatory novel about one of … read more

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  • historical
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20. Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"

By: Deborah Heiligman

4.15

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

A true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacua… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

By: Anne Bogel

4.02

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our boo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been."

-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

"For everyone who’s ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping."

-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

"A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader"

-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

"With apologies to Kathleen Kelly, what I've come to learn is this: if my real life reminds me of something I read in a book , I'm reading well -- and I'm probably living well, too."

-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

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22. The Wish Book Christmas

By: Lynn Austin

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A holiday story that reminds us that sometimes the most meaningful gifts are the ones we least expe… read more

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  • historical
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23. Canary Girls

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more

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24. The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times  bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women’s March , an enthrall… read more

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  • politics
  • historical
  • american history
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25. The Last Lifeboat

By: Hazel Gaynor

4.33

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

A Most Anticipated Book by Real Simple ∙ SheReads ∙ BookBub ∙ and more! Inspired by a remarkable… read more

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26. An Ivy Hill Christmas (Tales from Ivy Hill)

By: Julie Klassen

4.03

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Richard Brockwell, the younger son of Ivy Hill's most prominent family, hasn't been home for Christ… read more

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27. Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic

By: Michael Smith

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
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28. Christmas by the Book

By: Anne Marie Ryan

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

“A heartfelt and lovely Christmas tale for book lovers everywhere!”—Jenny Colgan, author of The Boo… read more

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29. Rage

By: Bob Woodward

4.17

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented and intimate tour de force of original reporting on the Trump presidency from Bob … read more

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  • american
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Trump is the wrong man for the job."

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Cohn offered one more argument against steel tariffs. "We're not a steel-producing nation. We're a good-producing nation. If we increase the price of steel, out goods become overprices and we can't c…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Many foreign policy leaders had said that Trump gave Kim (Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea) too much by agreeing to meet without formal, written conditions. "So, have you given Kim too much power…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

"Kushner said that Scott Adam's approach could be applied to Trump's recent February 4 State of the Union speech when he had claimed, "Our economy is the best it has ever been." The economy was indeed…"

-Bob Woodward, Rage

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30. The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

By: Bill Shaffer

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking cour… read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. You Belong Here Now

By: Dianna Rostad

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In this brilliant debut reminiscent of William Kent Krueger's This Tender Land and Lisa Wingate's B… read more

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3.70

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