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Extinguishment is a cross-genre category for books preoccupied with endings and erasures—of species, cultures, languages, memories, identities, and even worlds—and the reckonings that follow. It spans apocalyptic and climate fiction, literary elegies, horror of vanishing selves, speculative tales of oblivion, and thrillers about cover-ups and censorship, as well as nonfiction on extinction events, cultural loss, and preservation. While centered on what is snuffed out by catastrophe, entropy, violence, or forgetting, these works also track the counter-impulse to witness, archive, salvage, and relight: caretakers of the last flame, keepers of memory, and survivors piecing meaning from the ash. Tonally ranging from urgent and harrowing to quiet and contemplative, Extinguishment gathers books that confront annihilation to ask what must be saved, who decides, and how we live at the edge of the end.

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