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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 449,223 ratings — published 1997
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,146 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,222,244 ratings — published 2011
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 282,084 ratings — published 2015
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,641 ratings — published 2018
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,197 ratings — published 2011
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,013,268 ratings — published 2006
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,880 ratings — published 1996
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,144,331 ratings — published 1954
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,463 ratings — published 1988
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.07 — 131,726 ratings — published 2009
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 49,771 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,009 ratings — published 2021
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,489 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 — 79,118 ratings — published 1995
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,201 ratings — published 2006
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,258 ratings — published 2014
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.92 — 324,545 ratings — published 1961
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,091 ratings — published 2011
Weslandia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,095 ratings — published 1999
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,859 ratings — published 2005
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 16,671 ratings — published 2010
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,518 ratings — published 1935
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,427 ratings — published 2019
The Evolution of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.39 — 312 ratings — published 1961
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,951 ratings — published 2012
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.01 — 103,178 ratings — published 1992
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,793 ratings — published 1975
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,675 ratings — published 2017
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.20 — 31,949 ratings — published 2018
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,277,799 ratings — published 2011
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 — 4,618 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 — 46,559 ratings — published 1995
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,037,765 ratings — published 1932
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.22 — 415,953 ratings — published 2003
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.17 — 47,043 ratings — published 2015
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,994 ratings — published 2017
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.06 — 19,794 ratings — published
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,093 ratings — published 2007
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,859 ratings — published 2010
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.87 — 34,784 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,168 ratings — published 1860
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 329,751 ratings — published 1995
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,185 ratings — published 1963
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 14,844 ratings — published 2022
The High King of Montival (Emberverse, #7)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,892 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 — 16,324 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,918 ratings — published 2020
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,186 ratings — published 1918
Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.90 — 380 ratings — published 2000
“My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
