One question that I frequently hear from my consulting clients is: “What reference books am I missing from my bookshelf?” The following are the “must have” books that I highly recommend:
- The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery (See review, below)
- Making the Best of Basics – Family Preparedness Handbook by James Talmage Stevens
- Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times by Steve Solomon
- Ball Blue Book of Preserving
- Cookin’ with Home Storage by Vicki Tate
- Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook by David Werner
- Where There Is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
- Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearney (Available for free download.)
- The Alpha Strategy by John Pugsley (Out of print, but a PDF is available for free download.)
- Boston’s Gun Bible by Boston T. Party (See review, below)
- Survival Guns by Mel Tappan
- Tappan on Survival by Mel Tappan
This list is just a start. See our Bookshelf static web page, for many more suggestions. – JWR