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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,049 ratings — published 2004
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,515 ratings — published 1988
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.45 — 452 ratings — published 1980
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 274,212 ratings — published 1993
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 807 ratings — published 2008
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,086 ratings — published 2019
Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,161 ratings — published 2015
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,829 ratings — published 1972
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,208 ratings — published 2006
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 498 ratings — published 2012
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.97 — 605 ratings — published 2008
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,946 ratings — published 2015
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,133 ratings — published 2014
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.91 — 300 ratings — published 2013
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,160 ratings — published 2003
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 330 ratings — published 2016
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,162 ratings — published 2014
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,361 ratings — published 2014
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 651 ratings — published 2011
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,049 ratings — published 2017
The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid (The Frontiers Collection)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 60 ratings — published
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,112 ratings — published 1992
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,985 ratings — published 2009
Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.20 — 40 ratings — published
Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.83 — 313 ratings — published 2009
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.10 — 817 ratings — published 2025
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,167 ratings — published
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.86 — 43,247 ratings — published 2020
Deep Adaptation (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 173 ratings — published 2018
Une autre fin du monde est possible (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.75 — 261 ratings — published
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.32 — 87,302 ratings — published 1998
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,234 ratings — published 1983
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,053,145 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 462,311 ratings — published 1997
Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.10 — 113 ratings — published 2023
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 939 ratings — published 2019
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,787 ratings — published 1959
Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.29 — 156 ratings — published 2014
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,564 ratings — published 2007
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.06 — 848 ratings — published 2003
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.87 — 381 ratings — published 2007
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 333 ratings — published 2009
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,248 ratings — published 2023
The Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,502 ratings — published 2023
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,538 ratings — published 2022
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.77 — 357 ratings — published 2019
The Water Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,358 ratings — published 2015
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 624,896 ratings — published 2014
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 689 ratings — published 2020
Ages of Discord (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 418 ratings — published 2016
“We know the Roman Empire fell into oblivion but can scarcely imagine let alone admit that we might face a similar fate.”
― The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
― The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
“He tans into burning while the opening fanfare to "Peaches en Regalia" flows over him, the bugle call for a hippie army that marched at the peak of the American parabola, that moment when physics held its breath to allow levitation, a small reward before the descent. The hippies knew it then, Maggot Boy Johnson thinks; they couldn't build it into words but they could feel it; a floating in the stomach as history shifted direction. They stopped, hey, what's that sound, and knew that the spiny skyscrapers reflected in the river, the chasms of concrete, the wide streets and sidewalks, the power lines cutting into the hills and mountains above missile silos, the highways drawing lines across the blank plains under enormous skies, the pupil of God's eye, would be the ruins that their grandchildren wandered among, the reminders that once there was always water in the faucet, there was electricity all the time, and America was prying off the shackles of its past. The vision opened up to them and winked out again, and those it blinded staggered through their lives unable to see anything else, while the rest of them wondered if they had only dreamed it.”
― Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America
― Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America
