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 [1] by Carla Emery (See review, below)
- Making the Best of Basics – Family Preparedness Handbook [2] by James Talmage Stevens
- Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times [3] by Steve Solomon
- Ball Blue Book of Preserving [4]
- Cookin’ with Home Storage [5] by Vicki Tate
- Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook [6] by David Werner
- Where There Is No Dentist [7] by Murray Dickson
- Nuclear War Survival Skills [8] by Cresson H. Kearney (Available for free download.)
- The Alpha Strategy [9] by John Pugsley (Out of print, but a PDF is available for free download [10].)
- Boston’s Gun Bible [11] by Boston T. Party (See review, below)
- Survival Guns [12] by Mel Tappan
- Tappan on Survival [13] by Mel Tappan
This list is just a start. See our Bookshelf static web page [14], for many more suggestions. – JWR