7. A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester

I don't really have much to say about A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester other than it's a good book to have read prior to the 100th anniversary of the quake, which occurs this April 18. I wan't that fond of the book. I thought Winchester spent way too much time on, say, Pangea, and not enough on San Francisco. It was interesting, but I could have done without a lot of the history of plate tectonic theory and used some more on, you know, the 1906 earthquake.