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The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,594 ratings — published 1988
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 76,055 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 — 67,986 ratings — published 2012
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 302,815 ratings — published 1993
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.02 — 95,858 ratings — published 2023
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,675 ratings — published 2007
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,097,880 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 — 251,672 ratings — published 2014
World of Trouble (The Last Policeman, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,052 ratings — published 2014
Countdown City (The Last Policeman, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,413 ratings — published 2013
The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.77 — 36,786 ratings — published 2012
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,903,830 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,340,598 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,366,980 ratings — published 2009
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 618,920 ratings — published 1951
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 121,233 ratings — published 1951
The End of Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,204 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 — 606 ratings — published 2025
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,016,014 ratings — published 1963
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.03 — 742,561 ratings — published 1995
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 218,954 ratings — published 2014
Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 49,064 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 — 71,927 ratings — published 2024
The Death of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.90 — 11,844 ratings — published 1956
Sorrowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,348 ratings — published 2021
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.83 — 36,907 ratings — published 2023
The Fisherman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 53,959 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 — 540 ratings — published 2018
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,305 ratings — published 2021
Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,118 ratings — published 2013
Grimdark Magazine, Issue 1, October 2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 200 ratings — published 2014
Verge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.39 — 293 ratings — published
God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.69 — 5,628 ratings — published 2011
Apocalypse Nyx (Bel Dame Apocrypha #1.5, 1.7)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.84 — 610 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 — 640 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 — 1,152 ratings — published 2025
King of Thorns (Broken Empire, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 72,269 ratings — published 2012
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.82 — 127,132 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 — 25,327 ratings — published 2020
Everglades (Newsflesh Trilogy Short)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.83 — 206 ratings — published
Rise: A Newsflesh Collection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,338 ratings — published 2016
Survivor (Battleforged #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,796 ratings — published 2023
American Kill Switch (End of Days, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,670 ratings — published 2021
Fail State (End of Days, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,117 ratings — published 2019
Zero Day Code (End of Days, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,119 ratings — published 2019
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 304,595 ratings — published 1992
“In fact, one of the main lessons to be learned from the collapses of the Maya, Anasazi, Easter Islanders, and those other past societies (as well as from the recent collapse of the Soviet Union) is that a society's steep decline may begin only a decade or two after the society reaches its peak numbers, wealth, and power. In that respect, the trajectories of the societies that we have discussed are unlike the usual courses of individual human lives, which decline in a prolonged senescence. The reason is simple: maximum population, wealth, resource consumption, and waste production mean maximum environmental impact, approaching the limit where impact outstrips resources. On reflection, it's no surprise that declines of societies tend to follow swiftly on their peaks.”
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
“What can be spoken of soon comes to be condoned.”
― The Naked Civil Servant
― The Naked Civil Servant