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The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,075,362 ratings — published 2006
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.06 — 639,563 ratings — published 2014
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,732,920 ratings — published 2009
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,753,536 ratings — published 2021
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.22 — 287,614 ratings — published 2012
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.02 — 577,591 ratings — published 2006
The Stand (Audiobook)
by (shelved 5 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.35 — 856,441 ratings — published 1978
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.25 — 840,287 ratings — published 1990
Nightfall (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.06 — 38,441 ratings — published 1990
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.98 — 78,286 ratings — published 2009
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.14 — 27,928 ratings — published 2014
Earth Abides (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.94 — 35,167 ratings — published 1949
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,685,348 ratings — published 1948
The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.90 — 663,670 ratings — published 2010
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.89 — 134,721 ratings — published 2006
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,526,828 ratings — published 1985
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.15 — 446,270 ratings — published 1963
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.87 — 138,277 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.28 — 349,644 ratings — published 2015
I Am Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.05 — 158,753 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 — 249,297 ratings — published 2014
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.01 — 119,815 ratings — published 1951
Seveneves (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,372 ratings — published 2015
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.05 — 215,517 ratings — published 2014
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.30 — 78,135 ratings — published 1987
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,133,578 ratings — published 1932
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,836,534 ratings — published 2010
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,289,532 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,187,403 ratings — published 2008
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.00 — 293,415 ratings — published 2003
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,648,372 ratings — published 2012
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,462,636 ratings — published 2011
Lucifer's Hammer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,810 ratings — published 1977
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.00 — 484,168 ratings — published 2013
Possess Me at Midnight (Doomsday Brethren #4)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,891 ratings — published 2009
Tempt Me with Darkness (Doomsday Brethren, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,795 ratings — published 2008
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.68 — 154,093 ratings — published 1994
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.54 — 217,576 ratings — published 2021
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.45 — 495,710 ratings — published 2020
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.49 — 326,669 ratings — published 2021
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.40 — 265,762 ratings — published 2021
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.69 — 185,302 ratings — published 2022
Sin (The Mate Games: Apocalypse, #1)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,249 ratings — published 2025
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 6,084 ratings — published 2024
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,313,124 ratings — published 2018
Embrace Me at Dawn (Doomsday Brethren, #5)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,186 ratings — published
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.10 — 200,471 ratings — published 2011
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.36 — 54,024 ratings — published 2024
The Death of Superman (Comic)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,845 ratings — published 1992
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as doomsday)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,748,098 ratings — published 1945
“Chuck skipped through the rest of the preamble to the actual examples
Spaceguard had chronicled:
“On March 23rd, 1989, an asteroid designated Asteroid 1989FC missed
hitting the Earth by six hours. This little jewel packed the energy of
roughly a thousand of the most powerful nuclear bombs, and the human
race became aware of it shortly after its closest approach. Had this celestial
baseball been only six hours later most of the population of the Earth
would have been eliminated with zero warning.”
“In October of 1990, an asteroid that would have been considered
very small, struck the Pacific Ocean. This little fellow only packed the
energy of a small atomic bomb, about the same as the one that flattened
Hiroshima, and if it had arrived a few hours later or earlier it could have
easily struck a city rather than making a relatively harmless splash into
the center of the ocean. Remember, relatively here, is just a comparative
term.” ”
― The Mayan Legacy
Spaceguard had chronicled:
“On March 23rd, 1989, an asteroid designated Asteroid 1989FC missed
hitting the Earth by six hours. This little jewel packed the energy of
roughly a thousand of the most powerful nuclear bombs, and the human
race became aware of it shortly after its closest approach. Had this celestial
baseball been only six hours later most of the population of the Earth
would have been eliminated with zero warning.”
“In October of 1990, an asteroid that would have been considered
very small, struck the Pacific Ocean. This little fellow only packed the
energy of a small atomic bomb, about the same as the one that flattened
Hiroshima, and if it had arrived a few hours later or earlier it could have
easily struck a city rather than making a relatively harmless splash into
the center of the ocean. Remember, relatively here, is just a comparative
term.” ”
― The Mayan Legacy
“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]”
―
