What to Read After The Collapse of Complex Societies
Readers who loved The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Collapse of Complex Societies is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Collapse of Complex Societies
Limits to Growth
Long Descent
Overshoot.
Collapse
Reinventing Collapse
World until Yesterday
A Short History of Progress
Cannibals and Kings
Stone Age Economics (Anthropology and Ethnography: Economic Anthropology)
Against Empire
Ecological Imperialism
Hierarchy in the Forest
Dirt
Myth of the Machine
Against the Grain
Pursuit of the Millennium
The Vanishing Face of Gaia
Wealth of Nature
Twilight in the Desert
Transition Handbook
The Long Emergency
Thinking in Systems
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Rules for Radicals