This is the place to list the books, that I find most helpful on this journey to preparedness and self sufficiency.
Some of these books have free eBook downloads, and where legal, I have listed that option. I would like to add that any book on preparedness, survival, medicine, first aid, or food foraging would be much more valuable if you had the physical copy, in addition to the digital copy.
Note: If you want to download and read the Kindle versions of these books, you have 3 choices
- Buy a Kindle – They are awesome, and have super long battery life. How else can you carry an entire library in your backpack or pocket?
- Use the Free Kindle app for your tablet or smartphone. (Android, IOS)
- Use Free Kindle Cloud reader, on your computer, in your web browser.
Preparedness Library
Preparedness and Survival
- How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times by JamesWesley Rawles (Paperback, Kindle eBook, Audio Book, Audible)
- WildWood Wisdom by Ellsworth Jaeger (Paperback, Hardcover)
- U.S. Army Survival Manual FM 21-76 (Paperback, Free PDF Download)
- The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery (Paperback, Kindle eBook)
Foraging and Wild Edibles
- The Forager’s Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer (Paperback)
- Nature’s Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer (Paperback)
- The Essential Wild Food Survival Guide by Linda Runyon (Paperback)
- A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and central North America (Peterson Field Guides) by Steven Foster, James A. Duke, Roger Tory Peterson (Paperback, Hardcover)
- A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guides) by Steven Foster, James A. Duke, Roger Tory Peterson (Paperback)
Home Defense, Self Defense & Tactical
- Holding Your Ground: Preparing for Defense if it all Falls Apart by Joe Nobody (Paperback, Kindle eBook)
- Without Rule of Law: Advanced Skills to Help You Survive by Joe Nobody (Paperback, Kindle eBook)
- Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival by Max Velocity (Paperback, Kindle eBook)
Medical and First Aid
- Where There Is No Doctor by Carol Thuman (Paperback, Kindle eBook, Free PDF Download)
- Where there is no Dentist by Murray Dickson (Paperback, Free PDF Download)