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Books like Upheaval
A sobering, wide-lens examination of how nations navigate the brink of disaster, viewed through the psychological lens of personal trauma. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Upheaval.
- contemplative
- apprehensive
- intellectual
- 01
Collapse
Jared M. Diamond · 2004
A sweeping, sobering autopsy of fallen civilizations that holds a mirror up to our own precarious future.
- 02
The world until yesterday
Jared Diamond
A sweeping, reflective journey that holds up a mirror to modern life by examining the traditional societies we left behind.
- 03
Guns, germs, and steel
Jared M. Diamond · 1998
A sweeping, structural lens that reframes the entire history of human civilization through the unforgiving realities of geography and environment.
- 04
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
A clarifying, panoramic sweep of the modern world's most urgent anxieties, offering a steadying hand in an age of information overload.
- 05
The fourth turning
William Strauss; Neil Howe · 1997
A sweeping, prophetic framework that makes the chaos of modern history feel both terrifyingly inevitable and deeply orderly.
- 06
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
A relentless, white-knuckled plunge into the terrifying realities of our climate future that demands you look away from nothing.
- 07
War and Peace and War
Peter Turchin · 2005
A sweeping, interdisciplinary exploration of the cyclical forces that build and destroy human empires.
- 08
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
A gripping, anxiety-inducing, yet ultimately inspiring look under the hood of the systems that keep the modern world from collapsing.
- 09
Against the Grain
James C. Scott
A paradigm-shifting journey into deep history that completely upends the comforting myth of human progress.
- 10
The Precipice
Toby Ord
A sobering yet awe-inspiring confrontation with the fragility of our species and the staggering moral weight of our long-term future.
- 11
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
A sweeping, intellectually rigorous journey through history that decodes the hidden machinery of global inequality.
- 12
The origins of political order
Francis Fukuyama
A sweeping, intellectual journey through the deep history of human civilization and the fragile institutions that hold it together.
