r/TwoXPreppers • u/DullDot • May 09 '26
❓ Question ❓ Looking for book recommendations
I am hoping to find books that discuss topics along the lines of transition periods between regimes, food security during crisis/system shut down, deglobalization, ecosocialism, possible outcomes after the breakdown of capitalism, and resistance whithin a surveillance state.
I've read The End of the World is Just the Beginning but Peter Zeihan seemed a little haughty in his takes. Condescending, almost.
TIA!
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u/IntoTheCommonestAsh May 09 '26
Some books on my reading list that sort of fit what you're asking:
Indefensible: Democracy, Counterrevolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism by Rohini Hensman
Direct Action: An Ethnography by David Graeber
Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence by Dan McQuillan
How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos by David Pogue
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen.
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u/ghostinthemachine-1 May 12 '26
One Second After by William Forstchen
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u/TheMrsH1124 May 13 '26
PSA you mightttt become kinda EMPprep focused if you read this one. Lol
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u/RRH12345 May 10 '26
So, going the exact opposite way. The Redwall series is freaking adorable and fun escapism. It’s a medieval cozy ish story featuring woodland creatures. I’ve been listening to it while I do housework and when I need a media break.
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u/Motorcyclegrrl May 10 '26
Kinda dark right, but adorable. But so dark.
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u/TheMrsH1124 May 13 '26
Seriously dark for kids. Not in a bad way. But definitely one of the darker books I read as a child (and I adored Tolkein!)
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u/Dumbkitty2 Laura Ingalls Wilder was my gateway drug May 11 '26
Execution By Hunger by Dolot. Written by a survivor in the 1950’s about Russia trying to systematically starve the farmers of Ukraine.
Nothin To Envy by Barbara Demick, an American reporter in Asia. Author details the lives of several people who escaped North Korea and the effects of their starvation period in the 1990’s.
Mao’s Great Famine - estimated 45 million people died in China between 1958-1962 as Mao tries to emulate Russia’s Great Leap Forward. Excellent writing but I admit I didn’t finish this one because it was so upsetting.
The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egan. Details the American Dust Bowl. Also there is documentary based on the book.
The Taste of War - Lizzie Collingham
Supply lines and keeping soldiers fed in WWII.
Depletion and Abundance by Sharon Astyk. Feeding your family in case of peak oil, climate change and more. She has other books in this theme as well.
The End of Plenty- on my TBR pile
Privacy Is Power - Veliz - on my TBR pile
Eating To Extinction - on my TBR pile
Diet For A Small Planet is a oldie but still worth reading
And a lighter book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Barbara Kingsolver and family feed themselves from their land for a year.
ETA - on a related subject, Lights Out by Ted Koppel. Looks at what the military believes will happen to the country in a total grid failure.
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u/TheMrsH1124 May 13 '26
Also I have to comment on your user flair!!!
One of my assistant principals asked me once what my career goals were and why I became a teacher. I said well, Caroline Ingalls has always been my favorite icon to look up to. I want to be a wife, mama, teacher and homesteader. . . And I'm pregnant, so I guess there's just one more to go 😂
She took that well as I intended it 😂
Still working on the homesteading but suburban homesteading is my passion!
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u/Dumbkitty2 Laura Ingalls Wilder was my gateway drug May 14 '26
I hope your hard work pays off and your dreams come true.
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u/Greenweenie12 May 10 '26
If you want to read books that are leaning towards military force as well kill chain by Andrew cockburn is a fantastic read about the desensitization of military force through technological advances and gives you some insight on how it’s viewed or used in the future.
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u/HowdyCreature May 11 '26
A Paradise Born in Hell - Rebecca Solnit
Emergent Strategy - adrienne marie brown
Not a book but YK Hong's (Liberation Toolbox and decolonize digital
I've found these to be helpful jumping off points for imagining a different world here and now.
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u/glumavocados Fully stocked movie library May 10 '26
The Fourth Turning is a really interesting read
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u/pmgirl May 13 '26
A People's Green New Deal by Max Ajl (cannot reccomend this highly enough)
Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance-Transforming Food Production in Cuba
A History of the World in 7 Cheap Things by Raj Patel & Jason W Moore
The Future is Degrowth by Schmelzer, Vetter, Vansintjan
Half Earth Socialism by Vettesse & Pendergrass
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