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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 74,324 ratings — published 2004
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,470 ratings — published 1988
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.45 — 445 ratings — published 1980
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.20 — 252,818 ratings — published 1993
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,627 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 — 1,126 ratings — published 2015
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 801 ratings — published 2008
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,745 ratings — published
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,208 ratings — published 2006
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.97 — 599 ratings — published 2008
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 489 ratings — published 2012
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,930 ratings — published 2015
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,163 ratings — published 2003
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,408 ratings — published 2014
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.91 — 294 ratings — published 2013
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,479 ratings — published 2014
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.20 — 330 ratings — published 2016
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,322 ratings — published 2014
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,854 ratings — published 2009
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,986 ratings — published 2017
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 103,558 ratings — published 1992
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 639 ratings — published 2011
Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 39 ratings — published
Deep Adaptation (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.08 — 163 ratings — published 2018
Une autre fin du monde est possible (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.74 — 254 ratings — published
The Seneca Effect: Why Growth is Slow but Collapse is Rapid (The Frontiers Collection)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 61 ratings — published
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,091 ratings — published 1983
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,020,251 ratings — published 2006
Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.84 — 313 ratings — published 2009
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 451,721 ratings — published 1997
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,170 ratings — published
Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.10 — 109 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 — 925 ratings — published 2019
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.87 — 41,299 ratings — published 2020
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 118,190 ratings — published 1959
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.32 — 81,584 ratings — published 1998
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,013 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 — 13,004 ratings — published 2022
The Water Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.85 — 27,932 ratings — published 2015
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 602,779 ratings — published 2014
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 669 ratings — published 2020
The Sheep Look Up (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.91 — 5,649 ratings — published 1972
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,183 ratings — published 2007
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 380 ratings — published 2007
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 330 ratings — published 2009
World Made by Hand (World Made by Hand #1)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,537 ratings — published 2007
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.83 — 488 ratings — published 2006
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.25 — 224 ratings — published
The Limits to Growth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 857 ratings — published
The Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.23 — 5,937 ratings — published 2023
“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
“Outside the snow continued its diligent job of covering up the earth’s scars and imperfections, till one day it would melt and everything would come undone. And time would march on, seemingly never ending, yet always just at the edge of collapse.”
― Dying in Champoussin
― Dying in Champoussin
