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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.89 — 135,078 ratings — published 2006
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.79 — 35,388 ratings — published 2010
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.36 — 71,547 ratings — published 2019
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,090,180 ratings — published 2006
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.02 — 581,691 ratings — published 2006
To the Survivors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.15 — 122 ratings — published 2013
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.62 — 18,191 ratings — published 2014
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.24 — 44,161 ratings — published 2009
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,684 ratings — published 2017
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,480 ratings — published 1997
Shift (Silo, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.13 — 169,057 ratings — published 2013
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.06 — 649,500 ratings — published 2014
The Age of Miracles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.67 — 96,144 ratings — published 2012
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.85 — 43,149 ratings — published 2008
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.93 — 332,145 ratings — published 2009
The Living (The Living, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,310 ratings — published 2013
Fallvatten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.32 — 1,707 ratings — published 2012
Flood (Flood, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,797 ratings — published 2008
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.55 — 45,643 ratings — published 2025
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,300 ratings — published 2024
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,882,155 ratings — published 2021
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,331 ratings — published 1946
Juste après la vague (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.84 — 702 ratings — published 2018
The Witch Elm (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.58 — 115,104 ratings — published 2018
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,976 ratings — published 2015
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 295,505 ratings — published 2003
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.98 — 27,504 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,226,618 ratings — published 1996
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.15 — 449,743 ratings — published 1963
Blackout: A Techno-Thriller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.01 — 18,865 ratings — published 2012
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,307 ratings — published 2015
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,769 ratings — published 1951
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,398 ratings — published 2008
Ninth Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,158 ratings — published 2010
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.22 — 294,065 ratings — published 2012
The Shade of the Moon (Last Survivors, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.28 — 13,166 ratings — published 2013
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.10 — 31,069 ratings — published 1955
Odds Against Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.38 — 2,705 ratings — published 2013
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.07 — 136,054 ratings — published 2009
A Fall of Moondust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,040 ratings — published 1961
Ark (Flood, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,109 ratings — published 2009
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.35 — 864,125 ratings — published 1978
Time (Manifold #1)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,223 ratings — published 1999
The Puritan Millennium: Literature and Theology, 1550-1682 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.09 — 11 ratings — published 2000
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.83 — 491 ratings — published 2006
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,545 ratings — published 2022
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,448 ratings — published 2007
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,839 ratings — published 2010
Paper Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,678 ratings — published 2026
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.40 — 242,866 ratings — published 2008
“[...] that's what a global catastrophe means for anyone: it's not the loss of the world at large you mourn, it's the loss of *your* world, your life, your [...]”
― Evenings and Weekends
― Evenings and Weekends
“It's not a disaster; it's a dramatic term. It's all through the literature on ancient theater. Four stages: prologue, protasis, epitasis, catastrophe. The catastrophe is the moment when it all hangs on the precipice. If it goes one way, it's a tragedy, and everyone will probably die; if it goes the other, it's a comedy, and everyone will get their happy ending.”
― An Academic Affair
― An Academic Affair
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