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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
The Collapse of Complex Societies
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit
Neoreaction a Basilisk by Elizabeth SandiferThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiIn the Dust of This Planet by Eugene ThackerStarry Speculative Corpse by Eugene ThackerFanged Noumena by Nick Land
The Speculative Turn
36 books — 19 voters
Dead Reckoning by Dave AtchesonThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe Founding Fish by John McPheeSnow Falling on Cedars by David GutersonRough Waters by Nancy Danielson Mendenhall
fishing and fisheries
61 books — 21 voters

World Made by Hand by James Howard KunstlerOne Second After by William R. ForstchenThe Witch of Hebron by James Howard KunstlerThe Jakarta Pandemic by Steven KonkolyLights Out By Half Fast by David Crawford
Post-Petroleum Fiction
45 books — 49 voters
The Lever of Riches by Joel MokyrThe Nature of Technology by W. Brian ArthurA History of Mechanical Inventions by Abbott Payson UsherWhere Good Ideas Come From by Steven JohnsonThe Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter
The Knowledge--Further Reading
101 books — 4 voters

The Stand by Stephen  KingHuman Instincts by Ioana VisanLucifer's Hammer by Larry NivenThe 40-Minute War by Janet E. MorrisOn the Beach by Nevil Shute
End of the World As We Know It
102 books — 84 voters

Jeff Vandermeer
Hard to describe what those next years felt like to live through. Except as a hollowing out, a loss beyond repair...even as it kept begging to be repaired. While the promise of what had been so very close haunted me. In so many ways. "So much in motion, such energy, it disguised the decay of things, the incremental rot. How much was hollowed out." Impossible to tell how fast society was collapsing because history had been riddled through with disinformation, and reality was composed of half-f ...more
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Giannis Delimitsos
Homo defessus — Never before in human history have so many people considered their everyday tiredness (because they are so busy and have so much to do) as a badge of honor. We are living in the era of Homo defessus, the exhausted man. I wonder if historians of the distant future (if there will be any) will look back at our epoch and decide to give it a name: “The Second Dark Ages,” because for the first time, humans not only deliberately sought exhaustion, but were also convinced that this menta ...more
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