Doomsday Reading List

1.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,679 ratings
2.
Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,314 ratings
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The Pendulum has Swung too far
The Pendulum has Swung too far 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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TWAS The Year 2020
TWAS The Year 2020 3.85 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Plague
The Plague 4.02 avg rating — 300,317 ratings
6.
On the Beach
On the Beach 3.98 avg rating — 48,156 ratings
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Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them 4.23 avg rating — 13,612 ratings
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Anno 2020
Anno 2020 4.47 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Decameron
The Decameron 3.88 avg rating — 42,706 ratings
10.
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281,937 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,270 ratings
12.
I Am Legend
I Am Legend 4.05 avg rating — 147,524 ratings
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12,000 Canaries Can't Be Wrong: What's Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It
12,000 Canaries Can't Be Wrong: What's Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
14.
Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle 4.15 avg rating — 428,375 ratings
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The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil 3.97 avg rating — 50,327 ratings
16.
Childhood’s End
Childhood’s End 4.12 avg rating — 169,997 ratings
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Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs 4.33 avg rating — 3,403 ratings
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Tired or Toxic? A Blueprint for Health
Tired or Toxic? A Blueprint for Health 4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic 4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings
20.
Company of Liars
Company of Liars 3.86 avg rating — 16,325 ratings
21.
Generations
Generations 4.16 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
22.
The Drowned World
The Drowned World 3.47 avg rating — 20,156 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by: Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,424 ratings
24.
The Man Who Planted Trees
The Man Who Planted Trees 4.19 avg rating — 18,617 ratings
25.
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,761 ratings
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Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine 3.80 avg rating — 7,219 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.07 avg rating — 235 ratings
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 3.84 avg rating — 2,720 ratings
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance 4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings
29.
The Dawn of Evil (The Wages of Sin, #5)
The Dawn of Evil (The Wages of Sin, #5) 4.55 avg rating — 49 ratings
29.
Life After COVID-19: A Fiction Novella Series Based on the Deadly Coronavirus
Life After COVID-19: A Fiction Novella Series Based on the Deadly Coronavirus 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Poetry in a time of Pestilence: Perspectives on a Pandemic
Poetry in a time of Pestilence: Perspectives on a Pandemic 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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WHY GOOD MEN KILL: Novella - Two hour reading
WHY GOOD MEN KILL: Novella - Two hour reading 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
34.
The Last Man
The Last Man 3.38 avg rating — 6,558 ratings
34.
The Birth of Death (The Wages of Sin, #4)
The Birth of Death (The Wages of Sin, #4) 4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Gulag Village Green
The Gulag Village Green 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
34.
Bound by Fate and Blood (Arsinoëphorus Alliance, Book 1)
Bound by Fate and Blood (Arsinoëphorus Alliance, Book 1) 4.41 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 63,442 ratings
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The Fall of Innocence (The Wages of Sin, #3)
The Fall of Innocence (The Wages of Sin, #3) 4.54 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World 3.91 avg rating — 7,930 ratings
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Stone Forged (Ailigh Wars Saga #2)
Stone Forged (Ailigh Wars Saga #2) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
42.
White Noise
White Noise 3.86 avg rating — 123,847 ratings
42.
The Wrath of Truth (The Wages of Sin, #2)
The Wrath of Truth (The Wages of Sin, #2) 4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
42.
Fever
Fever 3.73 avg rating — 16,064 ratings
42.
Stone Heart (Ailigh Wars Saga #1)
Stone Heart (Ailigh Wars Saga #1) 4.45 avg rating — 31 ratings
46.
The Devil's Advocate (The Wages of Sin, #1)
The Devil's Advocate (The Wages of Sin, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Vixen
Vixen 3.50 avg rating — 515 ratings
46.
Lynch (Rider, #2)
Lynch (Rider, #2) 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
49.
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 3.97 avg rating — 949 ratings
49.
This Time of Dying
This Time of Dying 3.34 avg rating — 145 ratings
49.
Gods Geuzen
Gods Geuzen 4.11 avg rating — 76 ratings
49.
The Camel Trail
The Camel Trail 4.12 avg rating — 96 ratings
53.
After Man: A Zoology of the Future
After Man: A Zoology of the Future 4.29 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
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Rider
Rider 3.82 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Prague Cemetery
The Prague Cemetery 3.51 avg rating — 29,531 ratings
55.
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge 4.18 avg rating — 4,944 ratings
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The Purple Moon
The Purple Moon 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
58.
If You Give a Pig the White House: A Parody for Adults
If You Give a Pig the White House: A Parody for Adults 3.86 avg rating — 936 ratings
58.
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History 3.98 avg rating — 42,018 ratings
58.
Stay Alive, My Son
Stay Alive, My Son 4.37 avg rating — 1,186 ratings
58.
Mudflap: The Gloves Come Off (Mudflap #2)
Mudflap: The Gloves Come Off (Mudflap #2) 3.96 avg rating — 46 ratings
62.
The 50 Best Horrors Novels of All Time
The 50 Best Horrors Novels of All Time liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
62.
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It 3.91 avg rating — 7,614 ratings
62.
The Romanov Cross
The Romanov Cross 3.93 avg rating — 2,758 ratings
62.
Mudflap
Mudflap 4.39 avg rating — 49 ratings
66.
Blindness
Blindness 4.18 avg rating — 324,656 ratings
66.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 3.97 avg rating — 2,718,834 ratings
66.
Bound by Oath and Heart: Arsinoëphorus Alliance (Book 2)
Bound by Oath and Heart: Arsinoëphorus Alliance (Book 2) 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 281,903 ratings
69.
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here 4.14 avg rating — 6,981 ratings
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Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization
Before the Flood: The Biblical Flood as a Real Event and How It Changed the Course of Civilization 3.74 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Concrete Island
Concrete Island 3.67 avg rating — 10,144 ratings
73.
The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life
The Memoir Project: A Thoroughly Non-Standardized Text for Writing & Life 4.32 avg rating — 1,552 ratings
75.
Nixon's Secrets: The Rise, Fall, and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon
Nixon's Secrets: The Rise, Fall, and Untold Truth about the President, Watergate, and the Pardon 3.71 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-and Divided a Country
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-and Divided a Country 3.88 avg rating — 1,878 ratings
76.
Thief of Souls: A Novel
Thief of Souls: A Novel 3.74 avg rating — 347 ratings
78.
A Journal of the Plague Year
A Journal of the Plague Year 3.56 avg rating — 11,576 ratings
78.
The Physician's Tale (The Plague Tales, #3)
The Physician's Tale (The Plague Tales, #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 659 ratings
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The Bomb
The Bomb 4.28 avg rating — 446 ratings
80.
Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future 3.85 avg rating — 11,954 ratings
80.
Burning Road (The Plague Tales, #2)
Burning Road (The Plague Tales, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 736 ratings
83.
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America 4.43 avg rating — 4,477 ratings
83.
The Plague Tales (The Plague Tales, #1)
The Plague Tales (The Plague Tales, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 2,071 ratings
85.
The Secret Life of Trees: How They live and Why They Matter
The Secret Life of Trees: How They live and Why They Matter 3.95 avg rating — 2,033 ratings
85.
Our Lady of the Flowers
Our Lady of the Flowers 4.01 avg rating — 6,846 ratings
85.
Domina (Biblioteca)
Domina (Biblioteca) 4.19 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
88.
The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom
The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom 4.16 avg rating — 796 ratings
88.
Là-Bas
Là-Bas 3.96 avg rating — 4,582 ratings
88.
Terminated The End of Man is Here Humanity on the Bank of Extinction
Terminated The End of Man is Here Humanity on the Bank of Extinction 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
91.
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder 3.85 avg rating — 4,807 ratings
91.
Beacon 23 (Beacon 23, #1-5)
Beacon 23 (Beacon 23, #1-5) 3.90 avg rating — 21,990 ratings
93.
Half Way Home
Half Way Home 3.71 avg rating — 14,810 ratings
94.
Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants
Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders With America's Mexican Migrants 4.13 avg rating — 1,306 ratings
94.
Shift (Silo #2)
Shift (Silo #2) 4.13 avg rating — 143,487 ratings
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The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger 3.97 avg rating — 5,715 ratings
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Dust (Silo, #3)
Dust (Silo, #3) 4.24 avg rating — 128,527 ratings
98.
The Liberal Record: How Liberals Changed the World
The Liberal Record: How Liberals Changed the World 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
98.
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1)
Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 367,345 ratings
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Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change 4.08 avg rating — 3,168 ratings
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