Ever since I started prepping, I have always realized the importance of books; both in a pre and post survival situation. Whether you’re learning now or gathering books that you may need in the future, this list is to help you fill your library with the right kind of books.
- Country Wisdom & Know-how
- Tom Browns Guide to Edible & Medicinal Plants
- Gardening When It Counts
- Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Complete Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival
- Woodcraft and Camping by George “Nessmuk” Sears
- Camping and Woodcraft by Horace Kephart
- The Way of the Woods by Edward Breck
- Camp Craft by Warren Miller
- Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by William H. Gibson
- Woodsmanship by Bernard Mason
- The Sportsman’s Workshop by Warren H. Miller
- Bushcraft, Scouting, and Woodlore Notes by Dr. R.W. Oelslager
- SAS Survival Handbook
- The Outdoor Survival Handbook: A Guide To The Resources & Material Available In The Wild & How To Use Them For Food, Shelter, Warmth, & Navigation
- Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition
- Outdoor Survival Handbook: A Guide To The Resources And Materials Available In The Wild And How To Use Them For Food, Shelter,Warmth And Navigation
- Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills
- The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
- The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life
- Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis
- SAS Survival Handbook, Revised Edition: For Any Climate, in Any Situation
- Hatchet
- The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse
- When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need To Survive When Disaster Strikes
- Lord of the Flies (Perigee)
- Robinson Crusoe (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
- When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency
- What to Do When the Power Fails: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-191 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, a-191)
- Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
- Primitive Skills and Crafts: An Outdoorsman’s Guide to Shelters, Tools, Weapons, Tracking, Survival, and More
- Just in Case
- US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76
- Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places
- 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive
- Emergency Disaster Survival Guidebook
- Storey’s Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
- The Self-Sufficiency Specialist: The Essential Guide to Designing and Planning for Off-Grid Self-Reliance (Specialist Series)
- The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series)
- Country Wisdom & Know-How
- Natural Healing Wisdom & Know How: Useful Practices, Recipes, and Formulas for a Lifetime of Health
- The Self-Sufficiency Handbook
- Living off the Grid: A Simple Guide to Creating and Maintaining a Self-reliant Supply of Energy, Water, Shelter and More
- Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A do-it-Ourselves Guide
- When There Is No Doctor: Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Uncertain Times (Process Self-reliance Series)
- Makeshift Workshop Skills
- Where There Is No Dentist
- Depression 2.0: Creative Strategies for Tough Economic Times (Process Self-reliance Series)
- The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living, 2nd: Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet Earth (Big Book of Self-Reliant Living: Advice & Information on Just)
- The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It
- The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
- Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting
- Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life
- The Encyclopedia of Country Living
- Country Wisdom Almanac: 373 Tips, Crafts, Home Improvements, Recipes, and Homemade Remedies
- Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics
- Long-Term Survival in the Coming Dark Age: Preparing to Live After Society Crumbles
- Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money
- Deliberate Life: The Ultimate Homesteading Guide
- Independence Days: A Guide to Sustainable Food Storage & Preservation
- Thriving During Challenging Times: The Energy, Food and Financial Independence Handbook
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Self-Sufficient Living
- Total Resistance
- Living Well on Practically Nothing: Revised and Updated Edition
- Compact Cabins: Simple Living in 1000 Square Feet or Less; 62 Plans for Camps, Cottages, Lake Houses, and Other Getaways
- Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and More
- The Freedom Outlaw’s Handbook: 179 Things to Do ‘Til the Revolution
- Tappan on Survival
- Cookin’ with Home Storage
- Aboman’s Guide to Survival & Self-Reliance: Practical Skills for Interesting Times
- Deerskins Into Buckskins: How To Tan With Natural Materials, a Field Guide for Hunters and Gatherers
- Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game
- Build a Smokehouse: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-81 (A Storey country wisdom bulletin)
- Emergency Preparedness The Right Way
- PREPAREDNESS NOW!: An Emergency Survival Guide for Civilians and Their Families
- Organize for Disaster: Prepare Your Family and Your Home for Any Natural Or Unnatural Disaster
- Survival: How a Culture of Preparedness Can Save You and Your Family from Disasters
- The Secure Home
- Strategic Relocation
- How to Survive Anything, Anywhere: A Handbook of Survival Skills for Every Scenario and Environment
- The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why
- The Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life’s Difficulties…and How You Can Be, Too
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Disaster Preparedness
- The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide: The Smartest Money Moves to Prepare for Any Crisis
- The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation
- Tom Brown’s Guide to City and Suburban Survival (Field Guide)
- Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants
- Catastrophe: Risk and Response
- Build the Perfect Survival Kit
- The Ultimate Storm Survival Handbook
- How To Bury Your Goods: The Complete Manual of Long Term Underground Storage
- Wilderness Evasion: A Guide To Hiding Out and Eluding Pursuit in Remote Areas
- Trapper’s Bible: Traps, Snares & Pathguards
- Survival Retreat: A Total Plan For Retreat Defense
- The SAS Guide to Tracking, New and Revised
- Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass
- The Special Forces Guide to Escape and Evasion
- Tracking–Signs of Man, Signs of Hope: A Systematic Approach to the Art and Science of Tracking Humans
- The Modern Survival Retreat
- Tom Brown’s Science and Art of Tracking
- Tactical Tracking Operations
- The Way of the Scout: A Native American Path to Finding Spiritual Meaning in a Physical World
- A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
- A Year’s Supply In “Seven Days”
- Emergency Preparedness Made Easy
- Cook This, Not That!: Kitchen Survival Guide
- Not Without Hope
- A Canticle for Leibowitz
- Earth Abides
- The Road
- Alas Babylon
- Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse: A Novel of the Turbulent Near Future
- Making The Best Of Basics
- The Ultimate Guide to US Army Survival Skills, Tactics & Techniques
- Camping & Wilderness Survival
- US Army Survival Guide
- Home Disaster Preparedness
- Emergency Preparedness for Facilities: A Guide to Safety Planning and Business Continuity
- Beginners Guide to Family Preparedness
- Preparedness Principles: The Complete Personal Preparedness Resource Guide for Any Emergency Situation
