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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1)
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4.18 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
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3.94 avg rating — 626 ratings
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Industrial Society and Its Future
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3.85 avg rating — 12,657 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,045,894 ratings
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Alas, Babylon
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4.09 avg rating — 48,700 ratings
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 120,183 ratings
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One Second After (After, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 76,431 ratings
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The Stand
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4.35 avg rating — 840,046 ratings
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On the Beach
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3.98 avg rating — 49,989 ratings
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
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4.15 avg rating — 1,506 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,880 ratings
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Earth Abides
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3.94 avg rating — 34,384 ratings
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Galápagos
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3.87 avg rating — 89,195 ratings
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I Am Legend and Other Stories
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 136,635 ratings
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The Fallen
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3.52 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Swan Song
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4.30 avg rating — 76,478 ratings
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The Postman
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3.89 avg rating — 37,574 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 288,864 ratings
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The World Without Us
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3.81 avg rating — 43,490 ratings
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The 40-Minute War
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3.88 avg rating — 203 ratings
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The Killing Star
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3.82 avg rating — 844 ratings
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 10,685 ratings
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The Scarlet Plague
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3.75 avg rating — 14,666 ratings
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The Terror
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4.09 avg rating — 74,836 ratings
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Ashes of the Earth (Hadrian Boone, #1)
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3.50 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Survivors
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3.75 avg rating — 955 ratings
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Soft Apocalypse
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3.53 avg rating — 2,774 ratings
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The Last Man
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3.38 avg rating — 7,003 ratings
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World Made by Hand (World Made by Hand #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 7,583 ratings
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Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 26,689 ratings
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Dies the Fire (Emberverse, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 17,902 ratings
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Seveneves
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 125,531 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 351,641 ratings
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The Witch of Hebron (World Made by Hand, #2)
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3.80 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
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Earth Abides
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3.94 avg rating — 34,384 ratings
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 223,861 ratings
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The End of the World: A History
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4.38 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Pesthouse
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3.52 avg rating — 2,654 ratings
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The Long Afternoon of Earth
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3.63 avg rating — 6,366 ratings
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Plague (Plague 99, #1)
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3.63 avg rating — 414 ratings
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The Sky Conducting
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3.84 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Collapse (New America, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 2,015 ratings
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Fury of the Fifth Angel (Chronos Initiative, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Creating Monsters
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3.59 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Directive 51
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3.36 avg rating — 1,683 ratings
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Dogs of Orninica
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3.71 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Ark
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3.90 avg rating — 73 ratings
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I Rule World
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4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Malevil
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4.26 avg rating — 6,065 ratings
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The 40 Minute War
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3.88 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
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4.10 avg rating — 199,133 ratings
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Damselfly
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3.36 avg rating — 921 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
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3.94 avg rating — 626 ratings
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The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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3.88 avg rating — 13,946 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
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3.68 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Afterlight (Last Light, #2)
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3.99 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
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I Rule World
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4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Lucifer's Hammer
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45,511 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
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3.94 avg rating — 626 ratings
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A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations
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3.94 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Ariel
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3.65 avg rating — 2,187 ratings
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Last Light (Last Light, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 2,050 ratings
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
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3.76 avg rating — 670 ratings
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The Jakarta Pandemic (Alex Fletcher, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 7,397 ratings
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We are not the first: Riddles of ancient science
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3.68 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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4.13 avg rating — 1,353 ratings
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The Last Ship
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3.56 avg rating — 4,371 ratings
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The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia
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3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Forgotten Civilization: The Role of Solar Outbursts in Our Past and Future
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4.02 avg rating — 461 ratings
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Survivre à l'effondrement économique
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4.09 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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3.85 avg rating — 9,232 ratings
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The Long Winter
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3.38 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy
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3.78 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Inverted World
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3.95 avg rating — 11,019 ratings
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Rues barbares - Survivre en ville
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4.07 avg rating — 30 ratings
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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3.74 avg rating — 12,962 ratings
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The Death of Grass
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3.89 avg rating — 11,169 ratings
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Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
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3.79 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Summer of the Apocalypse
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3.71 avg rating — 806 ratings
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Women on the Verge of Societal Breakdown: Preserving Hard-Won Freedoms during an Age of Uncertainty
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3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941
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4.41 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Epiphany
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3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Book of Revelation For Dummies
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3.77 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Revelation of St. John the Divine: The Holy Bible, King James Version
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4.54 avg rating — 1,557 ratings
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An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
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3.56 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Vivian Apple at the End of the World (Vivian Apple, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 5,379 ratings
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Buying Time: Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Last Days (Peeps, #2)
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3.54 avg rating — 9,750 ratings
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Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
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4.31 avg rating — 740 ratings
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A Gift Upon the Shore
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3.91 avg rating — 1,443 ratings
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Last Days of the Late, Great State of California
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3.90 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
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4.10 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Valhalla
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3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Texas-Israeli War: 1999
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3.16 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 247,921 ratings
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Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Birmingham, 35 Miles
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2.86 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Are We Living in the End Times?
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3.95 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
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The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
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4.35 avg rating — 2,445 ratings
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Appalachian Fall: Dispatches from Coal Country on What's Ailing America
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 206 ratings
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There are already plenty of lists of dystopian reads and post-apocalyptic reads, but this could be a great list if it is about the time when the world is actually 'ending'!