- Arthur C. Clarke and Mike McQuay – Richter 10
- Bill Evans – Category 7
- Robert Harris – Pompeii
- Sebastian Junger – The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
- Gary Krist – The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America’s Deadliest Avalanche
- Erik Larson – Isaac’s Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- Mark Levine – F5: Devastation, Survival, and the Most Violent Tornado Outbreak of the Twentieth Century
- John N. MacLean – The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal
- Richard Moran – The Empire of Ice
- Kim Stanley Robinson – 40 Signs of Rain









