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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,012 ratings — published 2004
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,592 ratings — published 1988
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.46 — 458 ratings — published 1980
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 302,347 ratings — published 1993
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 813 ratings — published 2008
Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,199 ratings — published 2015
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,892 ratings — published 1972
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,653 ratings — published 2019
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,207 ratings — published 2006
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 518 ratings — published 2012
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.91 — 303 ratings — published 2013
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.96 — 610 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 — 1,981 ratings — published 2015
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.75 — 14,634 ratings — published 2014
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,163 ratings — published 2003
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 339 ratings — published 2016
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,382 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,785 ratings — published 2014
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 657 ratings — published 2011
Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 44 ratings — published
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 — 5,133 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 4.19 — 63 ratings — published
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,955 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 — 4,155 ratings — published 2009
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,380 ratings — published 2025
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.86 — 46,287 ratings — published 2020
Deep Adaptation (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.06 — 176 ratings — published 2018
Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.82 — 313 ratings — published 2009
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,165 ratings — published
Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 126 ratings — published 2023
Une autre fin du monde est possible (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.76 — 271 ratings — published
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.32 — 94,798 ratings — published 1998
Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.29 — 164 ratings — published 2014
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,386 ratings — published 1983
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,096,858 ratings — published 2006
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 332 ratings — published 2009
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 475,431 ratings — published 1997
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,620 ratings — published 2023
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,131 ratings — published 2022
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 — 956 ratings — published 2019
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 718 ratings — published 2020
Ages of Discord (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.10 — 439 ratings — published 2016
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,699 ratings — published 1959
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 44,019 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 — 856 ratings — published 2003
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.96 — 923 ratings — published 2011
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.87 — 381 ratings — published 2007
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.35 — 58,960 ratings — published 2024
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.38 — 622 ratings — published
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,130 ratings — published 2023
“Knowledge without experience is like building a bridge in the air; its end is collapse.”
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“I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in. It's a perfect system once you think about it."
~Will Landsman”
― Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
~Will Landsman”
― Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
