American eccentrics are great. They’re more sincere, unabashed and convinced in their madness than any other eccentrics in the world. And they say hilarious things like, ‘Rule number one is don’t freak out.’
They have two cars, two teenage sons, designer stools by their breakfast bar, ‘girl scout cookies’ arranged neatly on a plate and between twenty and thirty bodies buried in their front garden, according to legal depositions from local farmers who once worked the land.
Will Storr vs the Supernatural
Today’s TTT is books with weather events in the title or cover. I thought I wouldn’t come up with anything for this, but wowzers are there a lot of books with “storm” in them.
Historical Fiction:
Eagles in the Storm, Ben Kane. Second in his Roman series, following the aftermath of the Battle of the Teutoberg forest
Warriors of the Storm, Bernard Cornwell. Anglo-Saxon merrie-making, by which I mean scheming and stabbin
The Final Storm, Jeff Shaara. Disappointing Pacific War novel.
The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah. A novel of the Dust Bowl.
History
Isaac’s Storm, Erik Larsen. On early meterology and the Galveston hurricane
Eye of the Storm: Inside City Hall during Katrina
Hurricane Katrina through the Eyes of Storm Chasers
Storm of Steel, Ernst Junger. WW1 memoir & reflection
A Furious Sky: A Five Hundred Year History of American Hurricanes, Eric Jay Dolin
The Worst Hard Time, a history of the Dust Bowl
Science
18 Miles: The Epic Drama of our Atmosphere
The Weather Machine: How We See into the Future
Science Fiction
Children of the Storm, Kirsten Beyer. Voyager mixes it up with an alien species even the Borg took damage from
Regular Ol’ Fiction
Camino Winds, John Grisham. A murder-mystery in a hurricane’s aftermath
Reading Freely 
Wow, you thought of a lot of them! The Weather Machine sounds really good.
Thanks for stopping by earlier.
Lydia
True confessions: I typed in “storm” into a search of the blog and went from there!
Wow, I didn’t realize there were so many storm books!
So many great “storm” titles.
Furious Sky and Four Winds were both a bit disappointing to me, but I greatly enjoyed Isaac’s Storm.
Where did Four Winds fall short for you?
My grandparents and their children, including my dad, were a farm family who experienced the Great Depression, and the time, as my family shared it with me, was disconcertingly different from the experiences depicted in Four Winds. Here’s my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3928493551.
Just my two cents…
Thanks!
I definitely agree on Lareda’s character. She was much too modern to be believable. The family’s food supplies also struck me as odd, but I counted that to “things I don’t know enough about to really criticize”. Honestly, I was unaware of how interesting the ethnic makeup of the west was at this time…Italians, German Russians, Swedes…