Welcome to the Book Nook! The weekly thread for all book nerds on The Avocado. This is the place to talk about books you’re currently reading, discuss genres, ask for recommendations, and post serious literary criticism.

This weeks prompt: Disasters, natural or manmade. What are some of your favorite or least favorite novels, nonfiction books, stories, essays, plays, poems, graphic novels or comic books that involve a disaster?

Suggestions for prompts are always welcome!

Posting pictures is fine as long as they are book related, but I would like this thread to continue to be a NO GIF/YouTube/social media embed zone. Thanks, and happy commenting!

Today’s literary birthdays:
Mary Baker Eddy (1821), American religious writer and publisher, founder of The Christian Science Monitor (RIP 1910)
Kathleen Norris (1880), American novelist (1966)
Arthur Bowie Chrisman (1889), American children’s books author (1953)
Gordon Prange (1910), American historian (RIP 1980)
Shirley Hughes (1927), English children’s books author and illustrator (RIP 2022)
Anita Brookner (1928), English novelist and art historian (RIP 2016)
Robert Sheckley (1928), American science fiction novelist and short story writer (RIP 2005)
Sheri S. Tepper (1929), American science fiction, horror and mystery novelist (RIP 2016)
Cynthia Enloe (1938), American political theorist and feminist writer
Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Cuban novelist, poet and playwright (RIP 1990)
Susan Wheeler (1955), American poet
Tony Kushner (1956), American playwright