Open Books Challenge 2026: About or Set During a Natural Disaster

The Open Books Reading Challenge is a year-long reading challenge for people interested in pushing the boundaries of their reading. For full details of the program, please check-out our page at: https://www.rplmn.org/books-more/discover-more/open-books-reading-challenge

These are some ideas that fit the 2026 category "About or set during a natural disaster."

Happy Reading!

Updated December 31, 2025
RPL Staff
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The year of the flood : a novel
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood,The Year of the Floodis a brilliant visionary imagining of the future that calls to mind her classic novelThe Handmaid’s Tale. Adam One, the kindly leader of God’s Gardeners — a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion...
Temporada de huracanes
Melchor, Fernanda
Paper Book
Uno de los mejores libros del Siglo XXI según el New York Times FINALISTA DEL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2020 NOMINADA PARA EL NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020 FINALISTA DEL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD En la lista de los 100 mejores libros del...
Ninth Ward
Rhodes, Jewell Parker.
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a heartbreaking and uplifting tale of survival in the face of Hurricane Katrina. Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans' Ninth Ward. She doesn't have a fancy...
Krakatoa : the day the world exploded : August 27, 1883
Winchester, Simon
Paper Book
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far...

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