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The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,585 ratings — published 1988
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,857 ratings — published 2004
Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,598 ratings — published 2012
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 300,419 ratings — published 1993
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.02 — 95,081 ratings — published 2023
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,665 ratings — published 2007
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,093,027 ratings — published 2006
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.95 — 251,055 ratings — published 2014
World of Trouble (The Last Policeman, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,007 ratings — published 2014
Countdown City (The Last Policeman, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,377 ratings — published 2013
The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.77 — 36,631 ratings — published 2012
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,888,044 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,308,144 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,349,046 ratings — published 2009
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 617,414 ratings — published 1951
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,948 ratings — published 1951
The End of Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,102 ratings — published 2021
The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.44 — 572 ratings — published 2025
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,003,519 ratings — published 1963
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.03 — 723,511 ratings — published 1995
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 217,993 ratings — published 2014
Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 48,670 ratings — published 2018
Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 69,348 ratings — published 2024
The Death of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,747 ratings — published 1956
Sorrowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,273 ratings — published 2021
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,146 ratings — published 2023
The Fisherman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.82 — 52,903 ratings — published 2016
Scarred For Life Volume Three: Pop Culture in the Shadow of the Bomb (Scarred for Life, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.68 — 25 ratings — published
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.78 — 539 ratings — published 2018
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,355 ratings — published 2021
Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,007 ratings — published 2013
Grimdark Magazine, Issue 1, October 2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 199 ratings — published 2014
Verge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.39 — 292 ratings — published
God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.69 — 5,580 ratings — published 2011
Apocalypse Nyx (Bel Dame Apocrypha #1.5, 1.7)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.84 — 609 ratings — published 2016
The Body Project (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1.3)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 137 ratings — published 2014
The Black Orb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.08 — 632 ratings — published 2024
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,113 ratings — published 2025
King of Thorns (Broken Empire, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 72,152 ratings — published 2012
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.82 — 126,855 ratings — published 2011
Physics of the Apocalypse 1 (Physics of the Apocalypse #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 532 ratings — published 2023
Edge of Darkness (Edge of Collapse, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.31 — 25,133 ratings — published 2020
Everglades (Newsflesh Trilogy Short)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.83 — 204 ratings — published
Rise: A Newsflesh Collection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,329 ratings — published 2016
Survivor (Battleforged #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,793 ratings — published 2023
American Kill Switch (End of Days, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,668 ratings — published 2021
Fail State (End of Days, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,114 ratings — published 2019
Zero Day Code (End of Days, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,111 ratings — published 2019
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 304,096 ratings — published 1992
“But it is not just Western youth who will be destroyed due to this madness; it is Western Civilisation that will crumble as a result.
What took millennia to build and shape will be broken apart in mere decades. Traditions and cultures that were passed down from
generation to generation and have evolved and existed for thousands of years will be forgotten and lost. The rich Western
heritage, history and Western way of life will all be washed away within a century of madness.”
― The Fall of Western Man
What took millennia to build and shape will be broken apart in mere decades. Traditions and cultures that were passed down from
generation to generation and have evolved and existed for thousands of years will be forgotten and lost. The rich Western
heritage, history and Western way of life will all be washed away within a century of madness.”
― The Fall of Western Man
“Addiction isn't a moral failure; it’s a societal one. In the ER, I’ve sutured wounds from overdoses and watched schools fail to arm kids against the coming storm. ‘The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus’ isn’t fiction. It’s a glitter-coated bullet aimed at apathy. Here’s the truth: Lotus pills don’t just dissolve in your bloodstream. They dissolve families, cities, futures. I wrote this because nurses don’t just heal bodies; we armor souls. And sometimes, that armor is stormtrooper-plated and dripping in defiance.
Deanna LaForce RN], ER nurse and author of ‘The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus’ (Star Wars cosplay tutorials sold separately).”
― The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus. A Novella on Addiction and Trafficking Through the Eyes of an ER Nurse
Deanna LaForce RN], ER nurse and author of ‘The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus’ (Star Wars cosplay tutorials sold separately).”
― The Lotus Mark: The Pink Lotus. A Novella on Addiction and Trafficking Through the Eyes of an ER Nurse