The best survival books for preppers
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Survival, Prepping and Emergency Preparedness Books
The best survival books for preppers. Learn, Plan and Survive. Achieve new levels of preparedness and self-reliance with our extensive list of recommended survival books covering a broad spectrum related topics…
My Most Recommended Titles
- The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery (covers a wealth of information)
- The New Self-Sufficient Gardener by John Seymour (the only gardening book you will ever need)
- Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook and Where There is No Dentist by Hesperian Foundation (medical and health under primitive conditions)
- Cookin’ with Home Storage by Vicki Tate (cooking and using basic storage foods)
- How to Live Without Electricity – And Like It by Anita Evangelist (name says it all)
- Barnyard in Your Backyard by Gail Damerow (a beginner’s guide to raising chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, goats, sheep, and cows)
- Putting Food By by Janet Greene (freezing, canning, and preserving food)
- Emergency Food Storage and Survival Handbook by Peggy Layton (food storage and emergency preparedness)
- Boston’s Gun Bible by Boston T. Party (firearms and gear)
- Survival Poaching by Ragnar Benson (wild game procurement)
- Life After Doomsday by Bruce Clayton (surviving a nuclear nightmare)
- Eating Cheap by Ragnar Benson (as the title implies)
Disaster and Emergency Preparedness
- Making the Best of Basics – Family Preparedness Handbook by James Talmage Stevens (food storage and prep)
- When Technology Fails by Matthew Stein (self-reliance, sustainability, and surviving the long emergency)
- The NEW Passport To Survival by Rita Bingham (basic foods and cooking)
- When All Hell Breaks Loose by Cody Lundin (general survival info)
- 98.6 Degrees by Cody Lundin (general survival info)
- Long-Term Survival in the Coming Darkages by James Ballou (tools and improvised projects)
- Attack Proof – 2nd Edition by John Perkins (personal protection)
- Self Reliance During Natural Disasters and Civil Unrest by George R. Bradford (general emergency preparedness)
- The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why by Amanda Ripley (psychology of survival)
- The Urban Survival Handbook Harry Cook (general preparedness and planning)
- SAS Urban Survival Handbook by John “Lofty” Wiseman (survival in the urban jungle)
- Tom Brown’s Guide to City and Suburban Survival by Tom Brown (personal survival within the city)
- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales (psychology of survival)
- Secrets Of Street Survival – Israeli Style Eugene Sockut (Staying Alive In A Civilian War Zone)
- PREPAREDNESS NOW! by Aton Edwards (emergency survival guide for civilians and their families)
- Ragnar’s Urban Survival by Ragnar Benson (A Hard-Times Guide to Staying Alive in the City)
- Crisis Preparedness Handbook by Jack A. Spigarelli (a comprehensive guide to home storage and physical survival)
- Just in Case by Kathy Harrison (general survival)
- The SAS Self-Defense Handbook by John “Lofty” Wiseman (A Complete Guide to Unarmed Combat Techniques)
Gardening, Homesteading and Self-Sufficiency
- Storey’s Basic Country Skills by John and Martha Storey (an assortment of self-reliance skills)
- Back to Basics by Reader’s Digest (shelter, alternative energy sources, growing and preserving food etc.)
- Live Off The Land In The City And Country by Ragnar Benson (great book – skills not covered in other books)
- The Self-sufficient Life and How to Live It by John Seymour (covers a wide range of topics related to survival)
- Gardening When It Counts by Steve Solomon (gardening with basic tools after a collapse)
- One Acre and Security by Bradford Angier (How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It)
- All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew (growing food in small spaces – Grow More in Less Space!)
- The Self-Sufficiency Handbook by Alan Bridgewater (general info)
- The Urban Homestead by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen (self-sufficient living in the heart of the city)
- Rodale’s All-New Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening by Fern Marshall Bradley (The Indispensable Resource for Every Gardener)
- How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits by John Jeavons (great gardening info)
- The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible by Edward C. Smith (high-yield system for all north American gardening regions)
- Micro Eco-Farming by Barbara Berst Adams (prospering from backyard to small acreage)
Seed Saving, Canning, and Drying
- Saving Seeds by Marc Rogers (Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds)
- Trail Food by Alan Kesselheim (drying and cooking food for backpacking)
- Seed Sowing and Saving by Carole B. Turner (collecting seed and growing more than 100 vegetables)
- Seed to Seed by Suzanne Ashworth (seed saving and growing techniques for vegetable gardeners)
- The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest by Carol W. Costenbader(freezing, canning, drying and pickling fruits and vegetables )
- Root Cellaring by Mike Bubel (cold storage of fruits & vegetables)
- The Busy Person’s Guide to Preserving Food by Janet Chadwick (freezing, drying, and canning)
- Preserving Summer’s Bounty by Rodale Food Center (a quick and easy guide to freezing, canning, and preserving, and rrying what you grow)
- How to Dry Foods by Deanna Delong (revised and expanded)
- The Solar Food Dryer by Eben V. Fodor (how to make and use your own low-cost, high performance, sun-powered food dehydrator)
- Putting Food By by Janet Greene (freezing, canning, and preserving food)
- Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning by Deborah Madison(traditional techniques using salt, oil, sugar, alcohol, vinegar, drying, cold storage, and lactic fermentation for preserving)
Relocation, Home Security and Retreat Construction
- Country Property Dirt Cheap by Ralph C. Turner(finding inexpensive rural land)
- Rustic Retreats by David Stiles(a build-it-yourself guide)
- Getting Out by Mark Ehrman(your guide to leaving america)
- Survival Retreat by Ragnar Benson(a total plan for retreat defense)
- Survival Retreat by Ragnar Benson(a total plan for retreat defense)
- The Modern Survival Retreat by Ragnar Benson(a new plan for retreat defense)
- Defending Your Retreat by Delta Press(a manual for combat after the collapse)
- Building a Log Cabin Retreat by Michael Mulligan(a do-it-yourself guide)
- The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book by Mike Oehler(build your own underground – on the cheap)
- Secret Rooms Secret Compartments by Jerry Dzindzeleta(hide your stuff – hide yourself)
- The Secure Home by Joel Skousen (home safety and security)
- Travel-Trailer Homesteading by Brian D. Kelling (setting up a cheap homestead with a used travel trailer)
- Rancho Costa Nada by Phil Garlington (the dirt cheap desert homestead )
Investing, Finance and The Economy
- Financial Shock by Mark Zandi (a look at the subprime mortgage implosion, and gow to avoid the next financial crisis)
- The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R. Morris (easy money, high rollers, and the great credit crash)
- Empire of Debt by William Bonner (the rise of an epic financial crisis)
- Goodbye America! by Michael Rowbotham (globalization, debt and the dollar empire)
- Hubbert’s Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes (the impending world oil shortage)
- The Coming Economic Collapse by Stephen Leeb (how you can thrive when oil costs $200 a barrel)
- Game Over by Stephen Leeb (how you can prosper in a shattered economy)
- Investing in Renewable Energy by Jeff Siegel (making money on green chip stocks)
- Crash Proof by Peter D. Schiff (how to profit from the coming economic collapse)
- The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It by James Turk (make a fortune by investing in gold and other hard assets)
- Manias, Panics, and Crashes by Charles P. Kindleberger (a history of financial crises)
Saving Money, Living Frugal
- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin (transforming your relationship with money and achieve financial independence)
- The Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn (tips on saving money and making due)
- Living Well on Practically Nothing by Edward H. Romney (tips on saving money and living on the cheap)
- Eating Cheap by Ragnar Benson(easy ways to cut your food bill)
- The 99 Cent a Meal Cookbook by Ruth Kaysing (saving on food – cheap eating recipes)
- How to Survive Without a Salary by Charles Long (learning how to live the conserver lifestyle)
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