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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 455,629 ratings — published 1997
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,579 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,251,504 ratings — published 2011
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,441 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,921 ratings — published 2018
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,269 ratings — published 2011
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 14,020 ratings — published 1996
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,031,021 ratings — published 2006
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,184,903 ratings — published 1954
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,485 ratings — published 1988
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,718 ratings — published 2009
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 50,268 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,044 ratings — published 2021
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,479 ratings — published 2012
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.29 — 80,107 ratings — published 1995
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,206 ratings — published 2006
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,674 ratings — published 2014
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.92 — 326,272 ratings — published 1961
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,560 ratings — published 1935
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,356 ratings — published 2015
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,605 ratings — published 2019
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,725 ratings — published 2011
Weslandia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,103 ratings — published 1999
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 94,933 ratings — published 2005
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,548 ratings — published 2010
The Evolution of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.39 — 314 ratings — published 1961
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,822 ratings — published 2017
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,043 ratings — published 2012
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,142 ratings — published 1992
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,804 ratings — published 1975
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,272 ratings — published 2018
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,918 ratings — published 2010
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,294,137 ratings — published 2011
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,198 ratings — published 1963
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,641 ratings — published 2000
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,789 ratings — published 1995
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,067,046 ratings — published 1932
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.22 — 421,089 ratings — published 2003
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,087 ratings — published 2017
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 20,343 ratings — published
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,321 ratings — published 2007
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,140 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,203 ratings — published 1860
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 336,264 ratings — published 1995
A Short History of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,446 ratings — published 2004
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,298 ratings — published 2022
The High King of Montival (Emberverse, #7)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,907 ratings — published 2010
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,952 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,639 ratings — published 2020
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,221 ratings — published 1918
“All those ants scurrying about like rats in a maze, going back and forth to the same few locations day after day, thinking the cheese they’re sniffing for will somehow magically appear on the routes they cover over and over again. They’re born into the programmed maze, so they can’t even conceive of a different way of life. Not only can’t they believe in a different way of life, but they’re programmed to scoff and ridicule the few freethinkers who do. After the ridiculing, they go back to their programming, pushing buttons and pulling levers for no reason. Ah, the good old rat race that never ends till cancer comes a knockin’.”
― The Beasts of Success
― The Beasts of Success
“Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
