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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 — 133,378 ratings — published 2006
This World We Live In (Last Survivors, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.79 — 34,861 ratings — published 2010
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,034,620 ratings — published 2006
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.02 — 566,637 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 — 64,693 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 — 8,122 ratings — published 2017
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.40 — 64,703 ratings — published 1997
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.07 — 611,889 ratings — published 2014
The Age of Miracles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.66 — 94,698 ratings — published 2012
The Dead and the Gone (Last Survivors, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,433 ratings — published 2008
Under the Dome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.93 — 323,729 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 — 1,043 ratings — published 2024
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,101,323 ratings — published 2021
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,317 ratings — published 1946
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.62 — 17,952 ratings — published 2014
The Witch Elm (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.58 — 109,882 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 — 287,130 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 — 26,269 ratings — published 2013
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,191,206 ratings — published 1996
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.15 — 436,576 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 — 38,500 ratings — published 2009
Blackout: A Techno-Thriller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,943 ratings — published 2012
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.00 — 124,907 ratings — published 2015
Shift (Silo, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.13 — 153,391 ratings — published 2013
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,532 ratings — published 2008
The Shade of the Moon (Last Survivors, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.29 — 12,820 ratings — published 2013
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.10 — 28,892 ratings — published 1955
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,878 ratings — published 2009
A Fall of Moondust (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,615 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 — 834,095 ratings — published 1978
Time (Manifold #1)
by (shelved 2 times as catastrophe)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,054 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 — 38,525 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 — 8,436 ratings — published 2020
The Swarm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,554 ratings — published 2004
Expeditionen: Min kärlekshistoria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as catastrophe)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,369 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 — 18,186 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
“Human perfection and technical perfection are incompatible. If we strive for one, we must sacrifice the other: there is, in any case, a parting of the ways. Whoever realises this will do cleaner work one way or the other.
Technical perfection strives towards the calculable, human perfection towards the incalculable. Perfect mechanisms - around which, therefore, stands an uncanny but fascinating halo of brilliance - evoke both fear and Titanic pride which will be humbled not by insight but only by catastrophe.
The fear and enthusiasm we experience at the sight of perfect mechanisms are in exact contrast to the happiness we feel at the sight of a perfect work of art. We sense an attack on our integrity, on our wholeness. That arms and legs are lost or harmed is not yet the greatest danger.”
― The Glass Bees
Technical perfection strives towards the calculable, human perfection towards the incalculable. Perfect mechanisms - around which, therefore, stands an uncanny but fascinating halo of brilliance - evoke both fear and Titanic pride which will be humbled not by insight but only by catastrophe.
The fear and enthusiasm we experience at the sight of perfect mechanisms are in exact contrast to the happiness we feel at the sight of a perfect work of art. We sense an attack on our integrity, on our wholeness. That arms and legs are lost or harmed is not yet the greatest danger.”
― The Glass Bees
“On closer inspection, this cruel and beautiful world is ours, and we are all completely alone and doomed.”
― Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
― Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia
