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Oryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Windup Girl by Paolo BacigalupiParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodThe Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
Cli-Fi: Climate Change Fiction
417 books — 615 voters
The Stand by Stephen KingHuman Instincts by Ioana VisanLucifer's Hammer by Larry NivenThe 40-Minute War by Janet E. MorrisOn the Beach by Nevil Shute
End of the World As We Know It
102 books — 84 voters

World Made by Hand by James Howard KunstlerOne Second After by William R. ForstchenThe Witch of Hebron by James Howard KunstlerThe Jakarta Pandemic by Steven KonkolyLights Out By Half Fast by David Crawford
Post-Petroleum Fiction
45 books — 49 voters
Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiTechnological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiTechnological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiTwilight of the Machines by John Zerzan
Critics of Progress
55 books — 43 voters

Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskySpillover by David QuammenBeat by Jared GarrettA Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer
Viruses, the Brain, and Human Civilization
49 books — 40 voters
Depletion & Abundance by Sharon AstykThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinPermaculture by Bill MollisonGaia's Garden by Toby HemenwayPest Control for Organic Gardening by Amber Richards
Life after the oil crash (nonfiction)
48 books — 39 voters

Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiLimits to Growth by Donella H. MeadowsEmpty Planet by Darrell Bricker
Collapsology — Non-fiction
36 books — 32 voters
California by Edan LepuckiLucifer's Hammer by Larry NivenEarth Abides by George R. StewartThe Wild Shore by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe City, Not Long After by Pat Murphy
Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Set in California
81 books — 29 voters

Dead Reckoning by Dave AtchesonThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Founding Fish by John McPheeSnow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonRough Waters by Nancy Danielson Mendenhall
fishing and fisheries
60 books — 20 voters
Neoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth SandiferThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiIn the Dust of This Planet by Eugene ThackerStarry Speculative Corpse by Eugene ThackerFanged Noumena by Nick Land
The Speculative Turn
36 books — 19 voters

Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferDust by Charles PellegrinoRobopocalypse by Daniel H. WilsonThe Strain by Guillermo del ToroAfter the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress
Point of Disaster Apocalyptic Fiction
56 books — 15 voters
Comment tout peut s'effondrer by Pablo ServigneUne autre fin du monde est possible by Pablo ServignePetit manuel de résistance contemporaine by Cyril DionDormez tranquilles jusqu’en 2100 by Jean-Marc JancoviciVers la sobriété heureuse by Pierre Rabhi
Effondrement et Résilience
37 books — 4 voters

The Lever of Riches by Joel MokyrThe Nature of Technology by W. Brian ArthurA History of Mechanical Inventions by Abbott Payson UsherWhere Good Ideas Come From by Steven JohnsonThe Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter
The Knowledge--Further Reading
101 books — 4 voters
The Little Ice Age by Brian M. FaganThe Long Summer by Brian M. FaganCollapse by Jared DiamondThe Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. TainterThe Collapse of Ancient States and Civilizations by Norman Yoffee
Further Reading from Jared Diamond's Collapse
100 books — 2 voters

The Black Utopians by Aaron RobertsonA Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca SolnitJoyful Militancy by Carla BergmanArchaeologies of the Future by Fredric JamesonUtopia in the Age of Survival by S.D. Chrostowska
Utopian Imagination & Postmodern Apocalypse
21 books — 2 voters
UK Dark by Chris Harris
UK Prepping
1 book — 1 voter

The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy by Sarah Murray1177 B.C. by Eric H. ClineSailing the Wine-Dark Sea by Eric H. ClineLetters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East by Trevor BryceThe Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late B... by Assaf Yasur-Landau
Late Bronze Age collapse nonfiction
10 books — 1 voter
Ishmael by Daniel QuinnParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinBlack-out by Marc ElsbergThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Collapsology — Fiction
5 books — 1 voter

The Sheep Look Up by John BrunnerThe Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan W. WattsStill Life with Woodpecker by Tom RobbinsIshmael by Daniel QuinnThe Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Ordo ab Chao — Books on Breakdowns & Build-ups
5 books — 1 voter
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerSoft Apocalypse by Will McIntoshA Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. FletcherThe Brief History of the Dead by Kevin BrockmeierHollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
Collapse Book Club - Fiction Short list
12 books — 1 voter

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