Uploaded February 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Dystopian books? Apocalyptic books? Post-apocalypic books? Whatever you call them, these 5 novels play out the end of the world and how that might look. I read and ranked these books, and judged how realistic their depiction of the downfall of society felt to me. And a few are definitely recommend reading.

Funnily enough, I read all of these mostly by chance recently. So this also serves as a bit of a reading wrap-up.

I didn't mention this in the video, by @AliceandtheGiantBookshelf did a great video comparing the book and movie of The End We Start From, which you can check out here:
youtube.com/watch?v=YaEaOSiYtmo

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Books mentioned:
📖 Delphi, by Clare Pollard
📖 Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam
📖 The Doloriad, by Missouri Williams
📖 The End We Start From, by Megan Hunter
📖 Jungle House, by Julianne Pachico
📖 Severance, by Ling Ma
📖 Station Eleven, by Emily St John Mandel

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00:00 Why is there so much apocalyptic fiction?
02:37 5th place
05:49 4th place
08:38 3rd place
10:55 2nd place
13:36 1st place


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