REAL reading list both reference and fictional

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I'd like to add a couple of books to NR's non-fiction list:

The Long Descent - John Michael Greer
The Long Emergency - James Howard Kunstler
Reinventing Collapse - Dmitri Orlov
2052 - Jorgen Randers
The End of growth - Richard Heinberg
The Crash Course - Chris Martenson

Most of these aren't survival guides as such, but they all examine the converging trends that are likely to cause our descent, and what that descent might look like. The one by Dmitri Orlov is especially interesting. He is a Russian who came to the US to live as a teenager, but subsequently travelled back to the Soviet Union frequently for his work, during its collapse. He paints a clear picture of what happened over there, and draws comparisons with where other developed economies are now. He has a very uncompromising, no-nonsense writing style.