Preparedness Library

[The Wizard]

After reading some of the threads here I have seen many people recommend different books based on different topics, I thought it would be a good idea to have a list of books that you want or have in your preparedness/survival/SHTF/TEOTWAWKI/ect library. Please list subject, title, and author of whatever books you advise.

Edited to correct autocorrect

[Aglifter]

I'm sure the docs will have more to suggest, but I'd suggest, for some TEOTWAWKI, to include on of those handbooks of physics and chemical constants, as well as some organic chemistry texts, thermodynamics, some calculus texts, and… Oh, what was the dang course called?

I don't know if other schools require it - A&M has a Bauhaus style architecture school, and certain things rubbed off - but we had a course which covered building our own laboratory machines, as so many of them were created by researchers out of necessity.

Basically, head to a college, and try to scrounge up all the no-longer-current texts needed for as many STEM programs as you can get.

You may even want to pick up some law texts

[Jered]

Here's a partial list of literature that I have:

The Survival Medicine Handbook ISBN 978-0988872530
The TEOTWAKI Tuxedo ISBN 9780615524191
The Art of the Rifle ISBN 9781581605921
Holding Your Ground ISBN 9780615497556
Without the Rule of Law ISBN 9780615592831
Surveillance Countermeasures ISBN 9780873647632
Resistance to Tyranny ISBN 9781450574280
Boston's Gun Bible ISBN 1888766096
Principles of Personal Defense ISBN 9781581604955
TM 31-210
FM 5-25
FM 31-21
FM 21-76
FM 21-11
ST 31-91B
Basic Butchering of Livestock and Game ISBN 9780882663913
How to Shit in the Woods
The Partisan's Companion The Red Army's Do-It-Yourself Nazi-Bashing Guerrilla Warfare Manual
Bulletproof Privacy -- Boston T. Party
The US Armed Forces Survival Manual ISBN 0812908569
Special Forces Guerrilla Warfare Manual
Total Resistance ISBN 9780873640213
Food Drying Techniques ISBN 9781580172189
Back to Basics 3rd Edition
When there is no doctor ISBN 978934170113
Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide ISBN 9780470918197

[The Wizard]

Thanks for the list Jered

I would think that the 7/10 rule spreadsheet and the spreadsheets to determine shelter protection factor would be good to have. Probably some literature on whatever weapon systems, equipment etc, basically the manual for things that might need manuals should be included also. What about books like guerrilla gunsmithing? Seems like having a reference manual to keep your self defense weapons in working order might be good to keep around.

[Aesop]

ST 31-91B

I hope you aren't using that for anything but reloads when you run out of toilet paper (and hopefully in that case it isn't the waterproof-paged copy).

That thing is a reprint of the SF craptastic handbook from 1983.
There have been a wee few changes in medical practice since thirty years ago.
In fact, something like 50,000 of them. The only reason for having one is for museum reference, not a current treatment manual that's more of an archaic medieval text on a par with using leeches, bleeding people to let out the bad humours, and driving out evil spirits by dunking people in the pond.

The only thing it might help with would be if you had two of them, and put them both in a sock to use for patient anesthesia by smacking your victim with them upside the head.

For the good of humanity, burn that thing before someone actually uses it by mistake. It's like putting on a parachute harness and backpack that's loaded with old McDonald's hamburger wrappers and dirty baby diapers when you yank the ripcord, except less useful than that.

(I'd tell you what I really think about it, but I believe I've made the point...)

This is the one you want.

[Jered]

I just ordered it when I ordered a bunch of other manuals.

I have this one, too.

That's the best medical reference that I found. And, I do have an archaic medieval text on treating people with leeches, too.

[Weetabix]

I just stumbled across some else's list, so I'm linking it for reference: Library for the End of the World

I think it's a "rebuilding civilization" library.

[Aesop]

It's a pretty optimistic one.
In the event of rebuilding civilization, there's a place for all that, but the early emphasis is probably going to be on building log cabins with pegs and basic stone masonry long before anyone is worried about making gears.
It'll be a colonial world for quite a while before we graduate to steampunk.

[rightisright]

Per Aesop's recommendation, my hard-copy of Where There Is No Doctor arrived on Monday.

http://www.amazon.com/Where-There-Is-No ... 0942364155

[Precision]

I just stumbled across some else's list, so I'm linking it for reference: Library for the End of the World

I think it's a "rebuilding civilization" library.

That definitely won't fit in my Shit n git bag.