I want to recommend three books I wish everyone here would read.

First is Generations: The History of America's Future 1584 to 2060 by William Strauss and Neil Howe. In it they set forth a four generation pattern that has been in this country since the very beginning. Their thesis is somewhat complicated, and I could not do it justice in under 5,000 words. The book came out in 1991, and since it is mostly a historical look at this country, it simply is not dated. There is a certain amount of forecasting towards the end.

Second is The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny. Also by Strauss and Howe. That one came out in 1997, and in it they go out on a bit more of a limb, guessing how the next decades will progress.

Right now I'm rereading Generations (I've owned it since it first came out, although I did wear out my original paperback copy and repurchased it in hardback not too long ago) and will go to The Fourth Turning as soon as I'm done.

Since I have already read both books, I'm pretty familiar with them, although it's been a while since I've read either one. But yeah, we are living in the kind of time they describe.

The third book isa novel. Trapped in the R.A.W.: A Journal of My Experiences during the Great Invasion by Kaylee Bearovna With an Afterword by Pearl Larken. It's actually written by Kate Boyes, and the first half is the aforesaid journal. One day, in the near future (no dates given) aliens invade our planet and promptly start killing every single human they can. Kaylee is inside a rare books library on a college campus and stays inside, hiding from the aliens. She has almost no food, and no toilet paper, because they'd run out in the bathroom earlier that day, called maintenance, who didn't show up before the aliens did. The second half is the Afterward and then other appendixes which complete the story. It's incredibly good. It's one of the best books I've ever read.