April 2012

Booklists · The Titanic

April 15th marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic Ocean on a calm, starry night in 1912. Commemorate the event and honor the lives lost by reading one of these staff picks.

Fiction

The Dressmaker: A Novel

Kate Alcott

Promise Me This

Cathy Gohlke

Fateful

Claudio Gray

The Company of the Dead

David J. Kowalski

Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic

Suzanne Weyn

Nonfiction

Titanic: The Last Great Images

Robert D. Ballard

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World

Hugh Brewster

James Cameron's Titanic

James Cameron

Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From

R.P.T. Davenport-Hines

Titanic: The Death and Life of a Legend

Michael Davie

Titanic: The Unfolding Story

Carol King

A Night to Remember

Walter Lord

The Night Lives On

Walter Lord

Titanic and the Making of James Cameron : The Inside Story of the Three-Year Adventure That Rewrote Motion Picture History

Paula Parisi

Farewell, Titanic: Her Final Legacy

Charles R. Pellegrino

The Titanic for Dummies

Stephen J. Spignesi

Titanic, First Accounts

Titanic: The Tragedy That Shook the World, One Century Later

Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town

John Welshman

A Rare Titanic Family: The Caldwells' Story of Survival

Julie Hedgepeth Williams

Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived

Andrew Wilson

How to Survive the Titanic: The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

Frances Wilson

Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic: The Ocean's Greatest Disaster

Need more suggestions? Contact your local library and a reference librarian will be happy to assist you.