10 Books for People Who Like Weather and History
Add these books to your yearly reading list!
The new year brings a blank slate for book reading lists — a time to invite challenges, swap recommendations with friends, and reset books-read counts for the year. Weather makes for a compelling story. It’s impactful, it’s dramatic, and it’s universal. Everyone talks about the weather, and everyone experiences weather, even if they haven’t experienced weather THIS bad. Books about big weather events of the past are both gripping and instructive, leaving readers entertained and enlightened by the science, the human stories, the history, and often, the politics surrounding an event. If you’re looking for a high-quality work, here are 10 of my favorites, along with a bunch of honorable mentions.
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1. The Children’s Blizzard, by David Laskin
If you liked the fictional The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin, then you’ll love the source of much of her factual background. Laskin brings the people alive in his own right, from the meteorologists to the teachers and children caught in the storm. His account of the…
