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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,550 ratings — published 1997
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,519 ratings — published 2004
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,246,656 ratings — published 2011
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 285,825 ratings — published 2015
Civilization: The West and the Rest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,261 ratings — published 2011
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,582 ratings — published 2018
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,028,617 ratings — published 2006
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 13,996 ratings — published 1996
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,483 ratings — published 1988
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,177,589 ratings — published 1954
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.07 — 132,585 ratings — published 2009
Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.04 — 50,204 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,894 ratings — published 2021
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,173 ratings — published 2012
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.29 — 79,950 ratings — published 1995
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.74 — 12,616 ratings — published 2014
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,206 ratings — published 2006
Stranger in a Strange Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.92 — 326,035 ratings — published 1961
Our Oriental Heritage (The Story of Civilization, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,557 ratings — published 1935
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,594 ratings — published 2019
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,645 ratings — published 2011
Weslandia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,102 ratings — published 1999
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 94,787 ratings — published 2005
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,520 ratings — published 2010
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,145 ratings — published 2015
The Evolution of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.39 — 313 ratings — published 1961
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,802 ratings — published 2017
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,043 ratings — published 2012
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,025 ratings — published 1992
Story of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,801 ratings — published 1975
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,231 ratings — published 2018
Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,908 ratings — published 2010
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,291,691 ratings — published 2011
A History of Civilizations (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,195 ratings — published 1963
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,637 ratings — published 2000
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.81 — 46,753 ratings — published 1995
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,062,386 ratings — published 1932
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.22 — 420,252 ratings — published 2003
Energy and Civilization: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,074 ratings — published 2017
The Lessons of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.05 — 20,261 ratings — published
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,290 ratings — published 2007
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,113 ratings — published 2011
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,198 ratings — published 1860
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.18 — 335,264 ratings — published 1995
A Short History of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,441 ratings — published 2004
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,236 ratings — published 2022
The High King of Montival (Emberverse, #7)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,904 ratings — published 2010
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,860 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,167 ratings — published 2020
The Decline of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as civilization)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,219 ratings — published 1918
“All those ants scurrying about like rats in a maze, going back and forth to the same few locations day after day, thinking the cheese they’re sniffing for will somehow magically appear on the routes they cover over and over again. They’re born into the programmed maze, so they can’t even conceive of a different way of life. Not only can’t they believe in a different way of life, but they’re programmed to scoff and ridicule the few freethinkers who do. After the ridiculing, they go back to their programming, pushing buttons and pulling levers for no reason. Ah, the good old rat race that never ends till cancer comes a knockin’.”
― The Beasts of Success
― The Beasts of Success
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.”
― Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
― Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
