www.energybulletin.net/node/44031
Published May 11 2008 by Seattle Peak Oil Awareness (SPOA)
Archived May 12 2008
The post-oil novel: a celebration!
by Frank Kaminski

Powerdown, Richard Heinberg, 2004
The Party's Over, Richard Heinberg, 2003
(best books on an ecological approach to Peak Oil)

Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage, Kenneth S. Deffeyes
(best introduction to petroleum geology for a non-technical audience)

Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak

princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html - geologist Kenneth Deffeyes says "Peak" was December 16, 2005

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century by James Howard Kunstler, 2005

Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire At The End Of The Age Of Oil, Michael C. Ruppert, 2004
(best analysis of the politics of Peak Oil and the resource wars)

High Noon for Natural Gas by Julian Darley, 2004 (best book on natural gas depletion)

Relocalize Now! by Julian Darley, David Room

michaelpbyron.com - Infinity's Rainbow: The Politics of Energy, Climate and Globalization by Michael P. Byron

Walter Youngquist, Geodestinies: The Inevitable Control of Earth Resources over Nations & Individuals

John Gever, Beyond Oil: The Threat to Food and Fuel in the Coming Decades

William Catton, Overshoot

The Limits to Growth

Beyond the Limits

Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict, Michael T. Klare, 2001

Petrodollar Warfare by William Clark

The Coming Oil Crisis, Colin Campbell, 1988

Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, Matthew Simmons

The Oil Age is Over: What to Expect as the World Runs Out of Cheap Oil, 2005-2050, Matt Savinar lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability, David Holmgren

The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World by Paul Roberts (2005)

The Coming Dark Age - http://www.printandread.com/download/comingdarkagefree.pdf

www.theupsideofdown.com
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
Thomas Homer-Dixon, new book
The Upside of Down sets out a theory of the growth, crisis, and renewal of societies. Today's converging energy, environmental, and political-economic stresses could cause a breakdown of national and global order. Yet there are things we can do now to keep such a breakdown from being catastrophic. And some kinds of breakdown could even open up extraordinary opportunities for creative, bold reform of our societies, if we're prepared to exploit these opportunities when they arise.

Thomas Homer-Dixon is Director of the Trudeau Centre for the Study of Peace and Conflict at the University of Toronto. His last book, the national bestselling The Ingenuity Gap, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

http://energybulletin.net/24452.html

Much more material on the book (excerpts, short film, study guides, etc.) is available at the website.
EB contributor Bill Henderson is very enthusiastic, writing a positive review and saying:
Thomas Homer-Dixon has a great new book out: The Upside of Down which is totally about energy and running out of cheap energy. It's a very readable experts book, as important as Diamond's Collapse. You ran a link to his latest NY Times op-ed - the book is 300 pages as good as the op-ed. ...what I'm really recommending is that you or one of your regular contributors get the book and do a substantive review. This is an important EB book and your readers need to know about it.
James Howard Kunstler has written:
Anyone who wants to get serious about the defense of civilization had better read The Upside of Down.

Most of these books can be ordered on-line -- see http://portlandpeakoil.org/resources/media.html for hyperlinks to order these books from Powell's bookstore in Portland, Oregon (an independent alternative to Amazon.com, which supports George W. Bush).

http://users.rcn.com/katz.r/PEAK/PeakBooks.htm - a good list of Peak Oil related books