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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1)
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
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Industrial Society and Its Future
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The Road
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One Second After (After, #1)
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The Stand
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On the Beach
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Earth Abides
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The Fallen
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Swan Song
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The Postman
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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The World Without Us
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The 40-Minute War
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The Killing Star
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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands, #1)
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The Scarlet Plague
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The Terror
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Ashes of the Earth (Hadrian Boone, #1)
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Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Survivors
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Soft Apocalypse
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The Last Man
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Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
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Dies the Fire (Emberverse, #1)
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Seveneves
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The War of the Worlds
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The Witch of Hebron (World Made by Hand, #2)
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Earth Abides
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)
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The End of the World: A History
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The Pesthouse
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Creating Monsters
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Directive 51
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The Ark
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Malevil
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The 40 Minute War
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Damselfly
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
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The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
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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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Lucifer's Hammer
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
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A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations
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Ariel
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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The Last Ship
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The Ostrich Factor: Our Population Myopia
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Survivre à l'effondrement économique
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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The Long Winter
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Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy
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The Inverted World
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Rues barbares - Survivre en ville
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
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The Death of Grass
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Summer of the Apocalypse
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Women on the Verge of Societal Breakdown: Preserving Hard-Won Freedoms during an Age of Uncertainty
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The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941
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Epiphany
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The Book of Revelation For Dummies
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The Revelation of St. John the Divine: The Holy Bible, King James Version
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An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity
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The Last Days (Peeps, #2)
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Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis
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A Gift Upon the Shore
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Last Days of the Late, Great State of California
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Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It
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Valhalla
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The Texas-Israeli War: 1999
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Left Behind (Left Behind, #1)
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Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
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Are We Living in the End Times?
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Carolyn wrote: "So, if these are supposed to be books about the actual collapse, what are Swiss Family Robinson (family shipwrecked on an island, the rest of the world continues on as usual), The Terror (based on ..."
I couldn't agree more with you guys. Might as well add World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War on there if we were going the fictional post-apocalyptic route.
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'!