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A Night to Remember

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955

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Further Reading & Resources

Further Reading: Literature

The Night Lives On: New Thoughts, Theories, and Revelations About the Titanic by Walter Lord (1987)


Re-released in 2012 as The Night Lives On: The Untold Stories and Secrets Behind the Sinking of the “Unsinkable” Ship—Titanic, this sequel to A Night To Remember, completes the two-volume set of The Titanic Chronicles.

Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)

The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era by Gareth Russell (2020)


Accounts of privileged passengers, including Lucy Leslie, Countess of Rothes; son of the British Empire Tommy Andrews; American Captain of Industry John Thayer and his son Jack; Jewish American immigrant Ida Straus; and American model and movie star Dorothy Gibson.


Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived by Andrew Wilson (2013)


Accounts of survivors, including both famous first-class passengers like heiress Madeleine Astor and lesser-known second- and third-class passengers like the Navratil Brothers.


Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic’s First-Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster (2013)


This book provides personal narratives of the Titanic’s upper-class survivors.


Titanic: First Accounts edited by Tim Maltin (2012)


This book includes firsthand accounts and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Elizabeth W.

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