What are some must have books on prepping?

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ComfortableClean1915@reddit

Here's my Collection, something for everyone and I feel covers every topic https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16cb8F1Qn3edmydb-tjz19jChwFOgtGHq?usp=drive_link

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Mala_Suerte1@reddit

Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction?

I'll go non-fiction:

Where There is No Doctor

Where There is No Dentist

The Modern Survival Retreat

Handbook to Practical Disaster Preparedness

The Encyclopedia of Country Living

LDS Preparedness Manual

Square Foot Gardening

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Nice_Flamingo203@reddit

Just downloaded the lds book. Great resource.

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deaftalker@reddit

What are your recommendations for fiction?

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Mala_Suerte1@reddit

One Second After

Lights Out

Alas Babylon

Lucifer's Hammer

A Distant Eden

77 Days in September

Earth Abides

Enemies Foreign & Domestic

Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista

Foreign Enemies & Traitors

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All of these are excellent. There is another collection of instructional articles…the name of which escapes me but it is everything from beekeeping to rebuilding small engines. Everything needed for austere communities to function at lease minimally. I have it somewhere.

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Sweaty_Librarian9612@reddit

Foxfire?

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beagleherder@reddit

I have them on a eReader which is charged, off and in a bag. I am shifting house at the moment but this is going to bother me so I have to find it now.

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PGB3@reddit

Just so you know how luck and probability works by not having that at your fingertips right now you've just increased the chances of something bad happening on a global scale by 37.8% and trust me we are all going to blame you sir if something happens!

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beagleherder@reddit

I shall fall on my sword in that event

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antwauhny@reddit

Waiting to know...

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wrench352@reddit

I love the foxfire books and have about 8 of them. But only like 5-10% of it is of any use.

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Leather-Credit-8229@reddit (OP)

Thanks! I’m looking for non-fiction. Guides, and how to books mainly.

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Finkufreakee@reddit

Canning

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RangeSafety@reddit

Henry Ford: The International Jew

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Infamous_cheese_@reddit

Seal Survival Guide by Cade Courtley is an excellent read. It’s more about dealing with many very specific situations and I found it super interesting. Everything from surviving chemical attacks or mass shootings to surviving a shipwreck and being at sea. There are a ton of situations and solutions in it that may be more realistic to a prepping use case though

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JewMadre@reddit

I started The Encyclopedia of Country Living but idk if I'll ever finish it. Its super-long.

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ARG3X@reddit

Old school here. One Acre and Security is a great book and I gave a copy to each of my children when they left home. And TEOTWAWKI which was great for beginners giving situational awareness (over a decade ago).

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bloodredpitchblack@reddit

A binder of laminated paper maps showing your surroundings for a hundred miles, annotated with hazards (like nuke reactors and toxic waste dumps) and resources (like reservoirs and decommissioned coal mines).

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Ill_Refuse6374@reddit

There's an app called Survival manual. It'll work without internet, as well. It's based on the FM3-05.70 Field Manual. I know it's not a physical book, but it has an extreme amount of info.

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Street-Stick@reddit

I like plants for a future, their website is pretty comprehensive pfaf.org.

On a side note seeing a lot of you guys are in the U.S., is there any chance someone could send me some Apios Americana, American groundnut? The ebay offerings are a rip off...

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up2late@reddit

Apios Americana

Thanks for mentioning this. I just looked it up. I'm right in the middle of it's natural range. Now that I know what it is I'll be looking for it. I should have some on my property someplace, it looks familiar. It looks like a great plant to encourage, always happy to find native nitrogen fixers. I would be happy to send you some when I find it.

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Individual_Run8841@reddit

„Were there is no Doctor“ currently in the 50 Anniversary Edition Wich i believe is the 102 print run in English, of course it is also in 85 other languages available

The pdf are free available on the website of the publisher https://hesperian.org

https://languages.hesperian.org

I stored this on my phone and tablet, (not in some cloud wich may or may not be accessible) also bought the German Version as Hardcopy because i consider this knowledge could become important in case of a longer ongoing emergency situation…

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I_LIKE_RED_ENVELOPES@reddit

A nice resource! Thanks for this. I may be blind but I can't find the free PDF link. I get this:

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Individual_Run8841@reddit

First go there https://languages.hesperian.org/

Than choose English , than scroll down to the button pdf, click and then you can download chapter for chapter for free…

I hope that helps

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beaureeves352@reddit

Fiction mention, One Second After

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MegC18@reddit

My favourites:-

John Seymour on self sufficiency and on forgotten crafts (many editions)

Henley’s twentieth century formulas, recipes and processes. Seriously, this has everything, from asphalt and rubber cement, to artificial buttons, bronze for statues and bottle deodoriser etc. This gutenberg edition has 850 pages.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53143/53143-h/53143-h.htm

Richard Mabey’s Foraging for Food

Henry Stephens - book of the farm - definitive book on farming without modern powered machinery in Victorian times

Mrs Grieve’s Modern herbal

The barefoot doctor’s manual

The nuclear survival handbook

Linda Ziedrich - The joy of pickling

Food from your garden (readers digest) - surprisingly one of the best gardening manuals I’ve read, out of many dozens, with the possible exception of a couple of Victorian books.

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Pakala-pakala@reddit

Anything from Seymour is both very useful and fun to read

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dethwish69@reddit

Not sure if they are still available but my dad left me a 35 book series from Time Life books on homesteading. Gardening, framing, roofs & siding, plumbing, masonry, door and windows, basic wiring.

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dethwish69@reddit

One nation under blackmail by Whitney Webb

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EverbodyHatesHugo@reddit

Countdown to Preparedness is an excellent beginner’s prepping book that helps you build your stash week by week. Each chapter is one week and features and shopping list and action items to be completed that week.

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ifixharleys@reddit

Boy Scout books and merit badge books, old home improvement book collection, cookbooks, canning books, hunting, fishing, homesteadin, the book” when there is no doctor”, and “when there is no dentist”. First aid is important of course, but a more important one would be wilderness first aid. Plant identification, pill, identification, Automotive books, welding book,

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_comegetpsalm_@reddit

All of these are great but also buy a book on foraging that’s specific to your area. You’ll be surprised at how many plants are edible. Would pair this with a in person class if you can

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Consistent-Zone-9615@reddit

The Lost Ways by Claude Davis

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Your_Worship@reddit

Recently bought this. He’ll give you the pdfs of it too if you buy. Have them downloaded on my phone in case no internet situation.

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Consistent-Zone-9615@reddit

How do I get the PDF version?

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Your_Worship@reddit

I ordered straight from the website and put in email address. I got an email later from them saying they were providing the PDF as a special too. Might could email them?

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Leather-Credit-8229@reddit (OP)

Thanks

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Aurorer@reddit

The knowledge by Lewis Dartnell

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Birch_Apolyon@reddit

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization After a Cataclysm

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NorthernPrepz@reddit

This is a pretty good list

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-Luro@reddit

Readers Digest: Back to Basics. It’s an old school gem.

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StatisticianSuch4699@reddit

Im a big fan of:

'Gardening When It Counts' by Steve Solomon 'The Resilient Gardener' by Carol Deppe

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SgtPrepper@reddit

I'm rather fond of fictional dystopia books. Often authors go out of their way to intertwine excellent prepper information, and because it's in a fictional form, the info stands out in one's mind better.

Here are my favorites:

Alas, Babylon
Patriots
Founders
Lucifer's Hammer
Last Centurion
One Second After (annoying plot, but very informative)
Footfall

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TropicalAirborne@reddit

The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The classic guide for realists and dreamers - John Seymour. The original 1970s book that kickstarted a movement

The SAS Survival Guide - John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman - another classic

I grew up with both of these. The content is periodically updated.

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FlashyImprovement5@reddit

I download prepping books all of the time for free.

Then if you like the book, you can buy a hard copy.

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joka2696@reddit

Four season harvesting by Elliot Coleman.

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Individual_Run8841@reddit

Also I like to point that here are many Ebooks with useful topics floating in the Internet for free. Many websites have free pdf for a wide range of topics, also on many websites from the Red Cross to FEMA

WikiHow Wikipedia can also be downloaded via a free App KIWIX its around 52 Gigabits

They have pictures and easy to follow instructions, for a lot of useful things for example

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Water-Filter

If someone have a old Tablet or Phone available wich can use to store them maybe together with a small Solarpanel’s could be becoming very Useful…

All kind of DIY books, and advice for gardening for food would also become very useful

I grab as many free E-Books pdf as I can get my hands on and store them on different devices

This Beginns of course first to hold on to things wich are still funktion with the needed maintenance work be done, than repairs on things wich may be put back in use and than much later starts the recovery attempt…

So I would guess all Kind of DIY Instructions and Maintenance and Repair Manuals for your Car will be valuable, of course also all Books regarding farming, rising animals, gardening, homesteading, use of herbs, medicine, cooking, food storage/canning will be also very useful…

But luckily there are a abundance of them available for free in the Internet…

Of course you still need access to tools and some materials to make this work…

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ResolutionMaterial81@reddit

Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson Kearney

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gramma-space-marine@reddit

Back to Basics and New Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual. Detailed instructions for lots of things we take for granted!

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SuburbanSubversive@reddit

The encyclopedia of country living by Carla Emery is great, with a caveat that the food canning advice is not reliably tested for safety.

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Web_Trauma@reddit

Check r/preppersales, buncha free ebooks just dropped

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HuggyTheCactus5000@reddit

I have really enjoyed
"Where there is no doctor" by David Werner and similarly "Where there is no dentist". Gives you a bit of a perception.
"Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast" by Hilary Stewart was enjoyable too.
"Lost Ways" was already mentioned, but do want to add a plus-one.

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Leather-Credit-8229@reddit (OP)

Thanks

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HuggyTheCactus5000@reddit

u/Leather-Credit-8229 If you are curious about primitive skills, consider taking a primitive skills class. There are a few schools and a few of them are worth the time.

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