An Energy Politics Reading List

I thought some people might be interested in this reading list of texts on energy politics, which is a collection of very accessible books on global energy published since 2000 (with a couple of classics thrown in for good measure!). Happy reading!

The end of oil : the decline of the petroleum economy and the rise of a new energy order by Paul Roberts. London : Bloomsbury, 2004.

The party's over : oil, war and the fate of industrial societies by Richard Heinberg. Forest Row, East Sussex: Clairview Books, 2003

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. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.

The complete idiot's guide to the politics of oil by Lita Epstein, C.D. Jaco, and Julianne C. Iwersen-Niemann. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2003.

Energy at the crossroads : global perspectives and uncertainties by Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2003.

The oil factor : protect yourself--and profit--from the coming energy crisis by Stephen Leeb and Donna Leeb. New York: Warner Business Books, 2004.

Resource wars : the new landscape of global conflict by Michael T. Klare. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001.

Hubbert's peak : the impending world oil shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Out of gas : the end of the age of oil by David Goodstein. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004

The coming oil crisis by C.J. Campbell. Brentwood, England: Multi-Science Publishing & Petroconsultants S.A., 1997.

A solar manifesto by Hermann Scheer. London: James & James , 2001

The solar economy : renewable energy for a sustainable global future by Hermann Scheer. London: Earthscan, 2002.

Coal : a human history by Barbara Freese. London: William Heinemann, 2005.

The color of oil : the history, the money, and the politics of the world's biggest business by Michael Economides and Ronald Oligney. Katy: Round Oak Pub. Co., 2000.

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power by Daniel Yergin. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Addicted to oil : America's relentless drive for energy security by Ian Rutledge. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2005.

The empty tank : oil, gas, hot air, and the coming global financial catastrophe by Jeremy Leggett. New York: Random House, 2005.

The political economy of world energy: a twentieth-century perspective by John G. Clark. Chapel Hill, N.C: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Oil : anatomy of an industry by Matthew Yeomans. New York : New Press, 2004.