Recommended Reading List

[Glenda KG7MZO]

I need some help with this one. 

To everyone that is interested in the book club, please share your list of recommended reading.  I will keep this thread up for a short period to give everyone time to list their favorites and other popular books in this genre.  Once we've got a comprehensive list, I'll consolidate and re-post as a new list. 

Thank you to everyone that has participated in the book club discussion.  I look forward to more conversations in the future.

[Clay]

Here's a few from my que on my kindle:

Enemies Foreign and Domestic, Mathew Bracken
Bankster Chronicles part 1 and 2, Dave Jewett
Defiant trilogy, John W. Vance
The road home AND The day after, Andrew Baze
The passage, Justin Cronin
The End, G. Michael Hopf
Invasion USA, TJ Wade
Going Home series, A. American
The money bubble, James Turk
77 days in September, Ray Gorham

That's a few of the better ones to get the ball rolling.

[Jerry D Young]

Some deep and dark, others a bit less so.

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Dies The Fire by S.M. Stirling
EMP Contrast – A Tale of Two Cities by Donald R J White
Farnhams Freehold by Robert Heinlein
Free Flight by Douglas Terman
Lights Out by Halffast
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
Malevil by Robert Merle
Meteor by Edmund H North & Franklin Coen
Meteorite Track 291 by Gary Paulson
On The Brink Benjamin Stein & Herbert Stein
One Second After William R. Forstchen
Pulling Through Dean Ing
Seven Days In May Fletcher Knebel & Charles W Bailey II
Sub-Zero Robert W Walker
The Billion Dollar Killing Paul E Erdman
The Crash of '79 Paul E Erdman
The Day New York Went Dry Charles Einstein
The Deadly Frost Terrence Moan
The Last Days Of America Paul E Erdman
The Long Winter John Christopher
The Silver Bears Paul E Erdman

[Clay]

Can we add some nonfiction and reference type books to this too?

[Jerry D Young]

Medical Books:
Storey’s A Practical Guide To Healthy Living by Amy Rost
Gray's Anatomy      
Magic And Medicine Of Plants by the Readers Digest
The American Medical Association Home Medical Encyclopedia
The Home Remedies Handbook by John H Renner
Emergency War Surgery by the US Government
Ship's Medicine Chest and Medical Aid at Sea by the US Government
Where There Is No Dentist by Murry Dickson
Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner
Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West by Gregory L Tilford
Backyard Medicine by Bruton-Seal & Seal
Wilderness Medicine by William W Forgery
Modern Essentials 4th ed. - Guide to the Use of Essential Oils by Aroma Tools
Natural Healing Wisdom by Amy Rost
The Herbal Healing Bible by Jade Britton
Herbs by Weldon Owen

Outdoor books:   
Boy Scout Fieldbook (One of the older versions)      
Complete Book Of Outdoor Lore by Clyde Ormond
Field Guide To Edible Wild Plants by Bradford Angier
On Your Own In The Wilderness by Townsend Whelen & Bradford Angier
Outdoor Survival Skills by Larry Dean Olsen
Outdoorsman's Handbook by Clyde Ormond
Wilderness Gear You Can Make Yourself by Bradford Angier
Wildwood Wisdom by Ellsworth Jaeger


Prep manuals & related:
AFM 64-5 Survival Manual by the US Air Force
Build The Perfect Survival Kit  by John D McCann
Dare To Prepare by Holly Deyo
Disaster Prep 101 by Paul Purcell
Emergency– This Book Could Save Your Life by Neil Strauss
EMP – Protect Family, Homes, and Community by Donald R J White
FM 21-76 Survival Manual by theUS Army
FM 5-34 Engineer Field Data by the US Army
How To Survive The H-Bomb And Why by Pat Frank
Making The Best Of Basics - Family Preparedness Handbook by James Talmage Stevens
Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearny
Ragnar’s Urban Survival by Ragnar Benson
Rawles on Retreats and Relocation by James Wesley, Rawles
SAS Survival Handbook by by John "Lofty" Wiseman
SAS Urban Survival Handbook John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman
Stay Alive! Survival Skills You Need  by John D McCann
Strategic Relocation by Joel M Skousen
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
The Modern Survival Retreat by Ragnar Benson
The Secure Home by Joel M Skousen
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook by Joshua Piven& David Borgenicht
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook – Travel by Joshua Piven & David Borgenicht
Tom Brown’s Guide to City & Suburban Survival by Tom Brown
When All Hell Breaks Loose by Cody Lundin
When Technology Fails  by Matthew Stein
Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks


Self-sufficiency/Homesteading:
Underground Houses - How to Build A Low-Cost Home by Robert L Roy
Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
Natural Solutions to Bigger Pests by Dr. Myles H Bader
Natural Solutions to Things That Bug You  by Dr. Myles H Bader
Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte
Cold Climate Gardening by Lewis Hill
Fruits & Nuts  by Susanna Lyle
Back to Basics by Readers Digest
Living Off The Grid  by Dave Black
Storey’s Basic Country Skills by John & Martha Storey
Storey’s Survival Wisdom
Storey’s Country Wisdom
The Back To Basics Handbook by Abigail R. Gehring
The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery
The Guide To Self-Sufficiency by John Seymour


Downloaded e-books (I think they are all legal copies. If not, please let me know.):
101 Things To Do 'Til The Revolution by Claire Wolfe
A Complete Handbook of Nature Cure    
Barn Plans And Out Buildings by Dr. Byron D Halsted
Bartering by Oregon State University
Biodiesel Book by Network 6000
Biodiesel Production Technology by Iowa State University
Blast And Fallout Shelter by University of Maryland
Capturing Heat by Dean Still, Jim Kness
Ditch Medicine by Hugh L Coffee
Gardening When It Counts by Steve Solomon
Gravity Fed Water Treatment System -Mod 1* by James A Marusek
Gray's Anatomy by Henry Gray
Herbal Formulas      
How This Book Can Make You Invisible by J. J. Luna
How To Build Your Own Underground Home by Ray G. Scott
Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins
Hurricane Shutter Designs by APA
Interactive Atlas of Human by Anatomy F Netter
LDS Preparedness Manual LDS
Life After Doomsday by Bruce D Clayton
Management Of Dead Bodies After Disasters
Medical Terminology      
Medicinal Plants, Trees & Shrubs of Appalachia by Bill Church
MP-15 Family Fallout Shelter DOD/OCD
Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearny
Practical Blacksmithing by M. T. Richardson
Ranger Medical Handbook 2007      
Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties by D. C. Beard
Ship Captain's Medical Guide 22nd Edition by Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Ship Captain's Medical Stores      
Ship's Medicine Chest and Medical Aid at Sea US Government
Six Simple Pumps by Margaret Crouch
Survival and Austere Medicine TRAWATWMDBM
Survive Hard Times by Jackie Clay
The $50 and Up Underground House Book by Mike Oehler
The Boy Mechanic - Book 1      
The Boy Mechanic - Book 2 by H. M. Windsor
The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency by John Seymoure
The Complete Book of Underground Houses by Rob Roy
The Disaster Handbook for Extension Agents by University of Wisconsin
The Essential Underground Handbook by PML Publishing, Inc
The Extension Agent's Handbook For Emergency Preparation and Response by Texas Ag Extension Service
The Humanure Handbook by Joseph C Jenkins
When Technology Fails by Matthew Stein
Where There Is No Dentist by Murry Dickson
Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner
Where Women Have No Doctor      
Wound Closure Manual by Ethicon
You Will Survive Doomsday by Bruce M Beach

Some selected items from my library.
Jerry

[Glenda KG7MZO]

Well done Jerry. This is a very comprehensive list.

Clay, I will post 2 separate lists for books; one for fiction and another for the non-fiction

[Clay]

Thanks Glenda!

Holy moly Jerry. That's a list!

Here's a few Jerry didn't mention I have in my library:

Hornady Handbook of Cartridge Reloading
Gunsmithing Projects, Shotgun News writers
$50 Knife Shop, Wayne Goddard

Easy-up Antennas for Radio Listeners and Hams, Edward M. Noll
Technician and General Class Study Guides, ARRL
ARRL'S Even more wire antenna classics, volume 3
ARRL'S Handbook for Radio Communications
ARRL antenna book

Passport to Survival, Rita Bingham
How to survive anywhere, Christopher Nyerges
The Reluctant Survivors, Wayne D. LeBaron
The Modern Survival Manual, Fernando Aguiar

Western Garden Book, Sunset Magazine
All new Square Foot Gardening, Mel Bartholomew
Making the Best of Basics, James Talmage Stevens
Seed to Seed, Suzanne Ashworth

Basic Butchering of Livestock and Game, John M. Mettler Jr
Foxfire books series

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots and Ropework, Geoffrey Budworth
Chapman piloting seamanship and small boat handling

[redrocker]

"Warwolf," Hermann Loens in English translation.  This is the story of a community that survived the 30 Years' War (1618-1848) in lowland Germany by becoming self-sufficient and creating a large posse to protect their homesteads.  The book is very well-researched historical fiction, and it is believed to be a highly-accurate account of life after an economic collapse with general mayhem occurring all around.  If you want to be a prepper community organizer, I strongly recommend reading it, take extensive notes, and then check off which economic and defense measures the characters in the book used, that you would also want to use.  Some ideas you might want to discard -- like hanging poachers' bodies from tall trees and leaving them there to rot -- or maybe you want to adopt those same measures.  Like "One Second After," it gets very real and very brutal, very fast.  The only other book of its nature was written near the end of the 17th century and included some contemporaneous accounts (I have read that one as well), and is in great agreement with "Warwolf."  The contemporaneous accounts were even more gruesome than those in Warwolf, if anything.  For example:  How many people went out on hunting parties for meat, where the game were other humans?  Answer:  After a time, almost everyone.  Those who had a moral objection to cannibalism simply died off, leaving only the cannibals still alive.

[pqtb]

Holistic Management, Allan Savory
The work of Jerry D. Young
out of gas series, Randy Dyess
apocalypse law series, john grit
Dark Grid series, David Waldron
cyberstorm, matthew mather