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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,481 ratings — published 2004
The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,549 ratings — published 1988
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.46 — 457 ratings — published 1980
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 289,168 ratings — published 1993
Comment tout peut s'effondrer : Petit manuel de collapsologie à l'usage des générations présentes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,180 ratings — published 2015
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 811 ratings — published 2008
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,388 ratings — published 2019
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,859 ratings — published 1972
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,208 ratings — published 2006
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 512 ratings — published 2012
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.91 — 303 ratings — published 2013
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.97 — 609 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 3.76 — 1,968 ratings — published 2015
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.75 — 13,785 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 — 3,162 ratings — published 2003
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 336 ratings — published 2016
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,370 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,487 ratings — published 2014
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.16 — 655 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 — 5,087 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 4.19 — 63 ratings — published
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 106,123 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 — 4,080 ratings — published 2009
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,137 ratings — published 2025
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.86 — 44,795 ratings — published 2020
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 4.20 — 41 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 3.83 — 312 ratings — published 2009
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,167 ratings — published
Deep Adaptation (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.06 — 176 ratings — published 2018
Une autre fin du monde est possible (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.75 — 266 ratings — published
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.32 — 91,378 ratings — published 1998
Decline and Fall: The End of Empire and the Future of Democracy in 21st Century America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.28 — 159 ratings — published 2014
The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 16,319 ratings — published 1983
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,076,130 ratings — published 2006
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.07 — 333 ratings — published 2009
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,245 ratings — published 1997
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,448 ratings — published 2023
Breaking Together: A freedom-loving response to collapse (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 123 ratings — published 2023
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,900 ratings — published 2022
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 — 949 ratings — published 2019
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 704 ratings — published 2020
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,879 ratings — published 1959
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,820 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 — 853 ratings — published 2003
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.96 — 922 ratings — published 2011
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.87 — 381 ratings — published 2007
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.38 — 597 ratings — published
The Deluge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,873 ratings — published 2023
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,809 ratings — published 2020
All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as collapse)
avg rating 3.77 — 362 ratings — published 2019
“Pray for lightning.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Civilizations—barbarisms—have gone under never to rise again, and historians are used to marking and dating caesuras and wrecks. But how does one bear witness to a world that goes to its ruin with blindfolded eyes and its face covered, a republic that collapses without lucidity or pride, in fear and abjection? The blindness is all the more desperate, for the doomed believe they can steer their own wreck, swear that everything can be kept under control technically, that there is no need for a new god or a new heaven—merely prohibitions, experts, and doctors. Panic and deceit.”
― When the House Burns Down: From the Dialect of Thought
― When the House Burns Down: From the Dialect of Thought
