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Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,097,021 ratings — published 2006
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,920,419 ratings — published 2021
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.06 — 653,728 ratings — published 2014
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,756,852 ratings — published 2009
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.22 — 297,105 ratings — published 2012
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.02 — 583,914 ratings — published 2006
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.35 — 867,797 ratings — published 1978
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.25 — 850,087 ratings — published 1990
Nightfall (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.05 — 38,722 ratings — published 1990
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.98 — 79,545 ratings — published 2009
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.42 — 697,930 ratings — published 2020
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.14 — 28,520 ratings — published 2014
Earth Abides (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.94 — 35,732 ratings — published 1949
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,809,809 ratings — published 1949
The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.90 — 670,649 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,335,130 ratings — published 2008
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.89 — 135,266 ratings — published 2006
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.52 — 312,859 ratings — published 2021
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.47 — 464,686 ratings — published 2021
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.37 — 380,419 ratings — published 2021
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,581,114 ratings — published 1985
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.15 — 451,167 ratings — published 1963
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.87 — 142,047 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.28 — 357,293 ratings — published 2015
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.05 — 162,163 ratings — published 1954
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.95 — 251,551 ratings — published 2014
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,184 ratings — published 1951
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,682 ratings — published 2015
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.05 — 218,784 ratings — published 2014
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.30 — 79,447 ratings — published 1987
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,165,612 ratings — published 1932
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,900,931 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,363,689 ratings — published 2009
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 296,435 ratings — published 2003
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,661,216 ratings — published 2012
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,504,430 ratings — published 2011
Lucifer's Hammer (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 46,060 ratings — published 1977
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 486,362 ratings — published 2013
Possess Me at Midnight (Doomsday Brethren #4)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,892 ratings — published 2009
Tempt Me with Darkness (Doomsday Brethren, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,799 ratings — published 2008
A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.60 — 137,821 ratings — published 2026
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.03 — 739,261 ratings — published 1995
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.68 — 164,350 ratings — published 1994
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.63 — 229,041 ratings — published 2023
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.67 — 268,623 ratings — published 2022
Sin (The Mate Games: Apocalypse, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,422 ratings — published 2025
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,692 ratings — published 2024
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,379,082 ratings — published 2018
Embrace Me at Dawn (Doomsday Brethren, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,185 ratings — published
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.09 — 201,117 ratings — published 2011
“He is like a man living through the night before doomsday, with full knowledge that the sun will go nova in the morning, yet unable to enjoy the precious pleasures of this world because all his energy is devoted to wishing desperately that the foreseen end will not, after all, come to pass.”
― The Face
― The Face
“They say the world will end soon.
They say that the nuclear weapons made,
Due to fearing 'the other',
Has become a curse, a plague, a scourge
On those who made them
Even more than those they were made to scare...
And I wonder:
Will the nuclear weapons be the cause of world’s end?
Or will world’s end be caused by humanity’s fear, complicity, and submission?
And if what they say is true,
Before the world ends and before I die,
I wish to drink one last cup of cardamom-flavored tea
Taste one last fig, peach, or apricot,
Smell a quince,
Dip one last piece of bread
In Palestinian thyme and olive oil…
Before the world ends,
I wish to smell a few pine needles,
To breathe the smell of the first rain shower
After a long, hot, and dry summer…
Before the world ends and before I die,
I wish to read one more book
Out of the thousands of books that I still want to read…
Before the world ends and before I die,
I ask for one more spring
To smell bunches of Iraqi narcissus flowers.
I want to live one more autumn,
To enjoy the magical colors
Of the dying leaves on the trees
As they challenge death with beauty
Right before falling on the grounds of indifference…
But my biggest wish before I die is
For my death not to be the end of the world…
[Original poem published in Arabic on October 13 at ahewar.org]”
―
They say that the nuclear weapons made,
Due to fearing 'the other',
Has become a curse, a plague, a scourge
On those who made them
Even more than those they were made to scare...
And I wonder:
Will the nuclear weapons be the cause of world’s end?
Or will world’s end be caused by humanity’s fear, complicity, and submission?
And if what they say is true,
Before the world ends and before I die,
I wish to drink one last cup of cardamom-flavored tea
Taste one last fig, peach, or apricot,
Smell a quince,
Dip one last piece of bread
In Palestinian thyme and olive oil…
Before the world ends,
I wish to smell a few pine needles,
To breathe the smell of the first rain shower
After a long, hot, and dry summer…
Before the world ends and before I die,
I wish to read one more book
Out of the thousands of books that I still want to read…
Before the world ends and before I die,
I ask for one more spring
To smell bunches of Iraqi narcissus flowers.
I want to live one more autumn,
To enjoy the magical colors
Of the dying leaves on the trees
As they challenge death with beauty
Right before falling on the grounds of indifference…
But my biggest wish before I die is
For my death not to be the end of the world…
[Original poem published in Arabic on October 13 at ahewar.org]”
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