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Catastrophe Books
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Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.89 — 133,394 ratings — published 2006
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.79 — 34,872 ratings — published 2010
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,035,022 ratings — published 2006
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.02 — 566,767 ratings — published 2006
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.37 — 64,729 ratings — published 2019
To The Survivors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.13 — 117 ratings — published 2013
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,125 ratings — published 2017
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,716 ratings — published 1997
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.07 — 612,232 ratings — published 2014
The Age of Miracles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.66 — 94,701 ratings — published 2012
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,441 ratings — published 2008
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.93 — 323,794 ratings — published 2009
The Living (The Living, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,269 ratings — published 2013
Fallvatten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.33 — 1,629 ratings — published 2012
Flood (Flood, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,702 ratings — published 2008
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,046 ratings — published 2024
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,104,732 ratings — published 2021
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,349 ratings — published 1946
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.62 — 17,953 ratings — published 2014
The Witch Elm (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.58 — 109,901 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 3.75 — 1,939 ratings — published 2015
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 287,194 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 — 26,289 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,191,544 ratings — published 1996
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.15 — 436,670 ratings — published 1963
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,546 ratings — published 2009
Blackout: A Techno-Thriller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,955 ratings — published 2012
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 124,931 ratings — published 2015
Shift (Silo, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.13 — 153,509 ratings — published 2013
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,537 ratings — published 2008
The Shade of the Moon (Last Survivors, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.29 — 12,828 ratings — published 2013
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,903 ratings — published 1955
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,895 ratings — published 2009
A Fall of Moondust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,620 ratings — published 1961
Ark (Flood, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,047 ratings — published 2009
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.35 — 834,321 ratings — published 1978
Time (Manifold #1)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,056 ratings — published 1999
The Puritan Millennium: Literature and Theology, 1550-1682 (Studies in Christian History and Thought)
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 — 489 ratings — published 2006
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.79 — 38,534 ratings — published 1927
The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.67 — 8,439 ratings — published 2020
The Swarm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,568 ratings — published 2004
Expeditionen: Min kärlekshistoria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,378 ratings — published 2013
Deluge: The Complete Series (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.56 — 764 ratings — published
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,208 ratings — published 2021
Zug fällt aus: Dramatische Ereignisse der Eisenbahngeschichte (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Bewitched by the Fruit Bat King: The Bewitching Hour (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.06 — 436 ratings — published
Send Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.58 — 181 ratings — published
Witch Way: Books 1-3 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.66 — 238 ratings — published
Hero Ever After (Gibson Hollow #1)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.65 — 252 ratings — published 2025
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When the force is that of nature, we speak of disasters. When the force is that of other human beings, we speak of atrocities. Traumatic events overwhelm the ordinary systems of care that give people a sense of control, connection, and meaning.… Traumatic events are extraordinary, not because they occur rarely, but rather because they overwhelm the ordinary human adaptations to life.… They confront human beings with the extremities of helplessness and terror, and evoke the responses of catastrophe.”
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
― Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
“Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.”
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