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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 — 134,631 ratings — published 2006
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.79 — 35,244 ratings — published 2010
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.36 — 68,948 ratings — published 2019
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,071,948 ratings — published 2006
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.02 — 576,652 ratings — published 2006
To the Survivors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.13 — 119 ratings — published 2013
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,245 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 — 8,466 ratings — published 2017
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.40 — 66,600 ratings — published 1997
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.06 — 637,283 ratings — published 2014
The Age of Miracles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.66 — 95,690 ratings — published 2012
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,959 ratings — published 2008
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.93 — 329,298 ratings — published 2009
The Living (The Living, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,294 ratings — published 2013
Fallvatten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.32 — 1,674 ratings — published 2012
Flood (Flood, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,770 ratings — published 2008
Tilt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.55 — 42,139 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 — 1,244 ratings — published 2024
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,714,662 ratings — published 2021
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,118 ratings — published 1946
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.62 — 18,104 ratings — published 2014
The Witch Elm (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.58 — 113,427 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 — 1,964 ratings — published 2015
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 292,921 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 — 27,173 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,213,967 ratings — published 1996
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.15 — 445,444 ratings — published 1963
Blackout: A Techno-Thriller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.01 — 18,522 ratings — published 2012
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,162 ratings — published 2015
Shift (Silo, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.13 — 162,862 ratings — published 2013
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,124 ratings — published 2008
The Shade of the Moon (Last Survivors, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.29 — 13,078 ratings — published 2013
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,488 ratings — published 1955
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.07 — 135,024 ratings — published 2009
A Fall of Moondust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,925 ratings — published 1961
Ark (Flood, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,088 ratings — published 2009
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.35 — 854,633 ratings — published 1978
Time (Manifold #1)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,178 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
An Infinite Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.12 — 211 ratings — published 2026
The Last Mandarin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,563 ratings — published 2026
Hero Next Door (Gibson Hollow #3)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.64 — 138 ratings — published
Kaleidoskop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.13 — 923 ratings — published 1940
The Dragon’s Shadow (The Dragonborn Chronicles Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.50 — 22,989 ratings — published 2024
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.99 — 51,067 ratings — published 1957
A Winter Grave (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,918 ratings — published 2023
The Savage Shore: Extraordinary stories of survival and tragedy from the early voyages of discovery to Australia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.75 — 64 ratings — published 2015
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,503 ratings — published 2025
“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”
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“Despairing of an aim, salvation or an ideal, we invent for ourselves the easiest solution: happiness.
Here again we begin with utopia - the ideal of happiness - and end in achieved happiness, the highest stage of happiness. The same abreaction to integral happiness as to integral
reality or freedom: these are all unbearable.
In the end, it is the opposite form of misfortune, the victim ideology, that triumphs.
Being incapable of accepting thought (the idea that the world thinks us, the intelligence of evil), we invent the easiest solution, the technical solution: Artificial Intelligence.
The highest stage of intelligence: integral knowledge.
This time the rejection will arise perhaps from a resistance on the part of things themselves to their digital transparency or from a failure of the system in the form of a major accident.
Against all the sovereign hypotheses are ranged the easiest solutions.
And all the easiest solutions lead to catastrophe.”
― The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
Here again we begin with utopia - the ideal of happiness - and end in achieved happiness, the highest stage of happiness. The same abreaction to integral happiness as to integral
reality or freedom: these are all unbearable.
In the end, it is the opposite form of misfortune, the victim ideology, that triumphs.
Being incapable of accepting thought (the idea that the world thinks us, the intelligence of evil), we invent the easiest solution, the technical solution: Artificial Intelligence.
The highest stage of intelligence: integral knowledge.
This time the rejection will arise perhaps from a resistance on the part of things themselves to their digital transparency or from a failure of the system in the form of a major accident.
Against all the sovereign hypotheses are ranged the easiest solutions.
And all the easiest solutions lead to catastrophe.”
― The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact
