The following is a list of the best books I've read in the fields of peak oil and related issues:
- Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon world - Richard Heinberg (Probably the book you ought to read if you are limited to one)
- The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies - Richard Heinberg (Richard is one of the most learned authors in this field. What is more, he writes extremely well. I highly recommend this book)
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond (Puts resource depletion into an historical context - highly readable)
- The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth - Tim Flannery (Australian of the year)
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century - James Howard Kunstler (Talks and hits hard, but wittily. Great read. Doesn't mince words - labels the current situation as a clusterfuck. Is happy to have outlived at least one Beatle.)
- Ishmael - DanielQuinn (The wider picture painted in a novel, and by a gorilla!)
- Beyond Civilization - Daniel Quinn (The book I'd most like to keep at hand to insire me)
- Culture Jam - Kalle Lasn (A scathing inditement of modern culture - cut it down at the roots!)
- Crossing the Rubicon - Michael C Ruppert
- Crude: The Story of Oil - Sonia Shah (Asian woman's point of view)
- Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis - Jeremy Leggett (read the proof used to prepare the Japanese edition)
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