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The Collapse of Complex Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,570 ratings — published 1988
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,669 ratings — published 2004
Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,184 ratings — published 2012
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,313 ratings — published 1993
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.02 — 94,151 ratings — published 2023
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,655 ratings — published 2007
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,087,170 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 — 250,479 ratings — published 2014
World of Trouble (The Last Policeman, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,945 ratings — published 2014
Countdown City (The Last Policeman, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.85 — 16,311 ratings — published 2013
The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.77 — 36,498 ratings — published 2012
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,871,790 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,273,130 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,330,621 ratings — published 2009
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 615,365 ratings — published 1951
The Day of the Triffids (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,597 ratings — published 1951
The End of Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,005 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 — 551 ratings — published 2025
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,988,221 ratings — published 1963
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.03 — 700,063 ratings — published 1995
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.05 — 217,141 ratings — published 2014
Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 48,255 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 4.05 — 67,110 ratings — published 2024
The Death of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,685 ratings — published 1956
Sorrowland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.81 — 16,191 ratings — published 2021
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.83 — 35,423 ratings — published 2023
The Fisherman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.82 — 52,038 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 — 538 ratings — published 2018
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.20 — 208,017 ratings — published 2021
Emperor of Thorns (Broken Empire, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.22 — 58,874 ratings — published 2013
Grimdark Magazine, Issue 1, October 2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 198 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 — 5,564 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 3.09 — 620 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 — 1,074 ratings — published 2025
King of Thorns (Broken Empire, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.17 — 72,013 ratings — published 2012
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.82 — 126,541 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 — 24,875 ratings — published 2020
Everglades (Newsflesh Trilogy Short)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.84 — 202 ratings — published
Rise: A Newsflesh Collection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,323 ratings — published 2016
Survivor (Battleforged #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,783 ratings — published 2023
American Kill Switch (End of Days, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,661 ratings — published 2021
Fail State (End of Days, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,106 ratings — published 2019
Zero Day Code (End of Days, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,100 ratings — published 2019
Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as societal-collapse)
avg rating 4.01 — 303,525 ratings — published 1992
“What can be spoken of soon comes to be condoned.”
― The Naked Civil Servant
― The Naked Civil Servant
“On taxi-dancing. She said the men prefer her because she is clean.”
― Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnu
― Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnu