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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,733 ratings — published 2004
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,501 ratings — published 1988
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.45 — 450 ratings — published 1980
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 264,814 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 — 804 ratings — published 2008
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,894 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 — 1,147 ratings — published 2015
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,820 ratings — published 1972
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,206 ratings — published 2006
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 495 ratings — published 2012
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.97 — 601 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 3.75 — 1,945 ratings — published 2015
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,841 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
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.91 — 297 ratings — published 2013
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 330 ratings — published 2016
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,488 ratings — published 2014
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,351 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 — 647 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 — 5,020 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 — 104,537 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 — 3,929 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 4.18 — 39 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 3.84 — 313 ratings — published 2009
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,168 ratings — published
Deep Adaptation (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 168 ratings — published 2018
Une autre fin du monde est possible (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.75 — 258 ratings — published
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.32 — 84,725 ratings — published 1998
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,180 ratings — published 1983
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,039,526 ratings — published 2006
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 458,485 ratings — published 1997
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.14 — 591 ratings — published
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 4.18 — 933 ratings — published 2019
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,523 ratings — published 2020
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,654 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 — 43,406 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 — 844 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 — 331 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 4.30 — 8,162 ratings — published 2023
The Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,227 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 — 13,324 ratings — published 2022
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.78 — 354 ratings — published 2019
The Water Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,182 ratings — published 2015
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 615,413 ratings — published 2014
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 682 ratings — published 2020
Ages of Discord (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 414 ratings — published 2016
“You seem so calm, like the sea before a storm. But then a memory crosses your mind—a friendly gesture from someone sitting in a café long ago, a yellow tulip you once tucked into her hair, or an old slip of paper with her phone number—and everything falls apart.”
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“Insanity at its best is believing that we can reinvent the truth. Insanity at its worst is to expend our lives attempting to reinvent the truth that the reinvention always fails. And if there’s one truth that we cannot afford to reinvent, it’s the truth that our society is filled with the best and worst of both.”
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