Reference Books You Own and Recommend....

[money matters]

A good library can be one of the most valuable prep items you own, if it is wide-ranging and authoritative. What stand-out reference books and How-Tos do you own and endorse that others consider?

I will start off with these:

Medical
Kent's Repertory, Materia Medica
Merck Manual, Steadman's, Gray's Anatomy
Vitamin Bible

Cooking
NY Times Cookbook, Joy of Cooking,
Laurel's Kitchen, Macrobiotic Cookbook
Putting Food By, Ball Blue Book,
Deaf Smith Cookbook
Progressive Farmer Cookbook
Wild Game Cookbook

Genl
The Mother Earth News #1-97
Owner Built Home & Homestead,
Readers Digest Home Repair
Moving The Earth
National Electrical Code
HomePower magazine (early ones)
Rodale Organic Gardening
Factory repair manual for your vehicles
Small Engine Repair
Sierra Bullets Handloading Manual
Engineer's & Technical Handbooks
AARL Handbook (amateur radio projects)

Survivalist background & planning:
Kurt Saxon's Survivor, PMJB, & Chemistry
Survival Guns
Life After Doomsday
Nuclear War Survival Skills
Sixguns by Keith
Lucifer's Hammer (novel)

[north runner]

To continue onward.....

Ultimate Spy - Melton
101 Spy Gadgets For the Evil Genius
US Army Special Forces Medical Handbook
Ditch Medicine -Coffee
SAS Combat Handbook - Lewis
Fighting Manual - McAleese
Hunting With the Bow and the Arrow - Saxton Pope
Case Files of the Tracker - Brown
The Tiger's Way - Poole
Contemporary Knife Targeting - Grosz & Janich
Secrets of Survival Israeli Style - Sockut
Anatomy of a Streetfight - Vunak
SAS Mountain and Arctic Survival - Davis
A Snow Walker's Companion - Conover
On Rope - Smith & Padgett
Patriots - Rawles
Ammo & Ballistics 3 - Forker
Making the Most of Your Deer - Walrod
Encyclopedia of Country Living - Emery
Alcohol Producing Still - Gingery
Living on 12 Volts - Smead & Ishihara
Do It Yourself Medicine - Benson
Preparation for Nuclear Disaster - LeBaron
Biodiesel Basics and Beyond - Kemp
From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank - Tickell
Biology of Plagues - Scott and Duncan
Return of the Black Death - Scott & Duncan
Ragnar's Guide to Home and Recreational Use of High Explosives - Benson
The Do It Yourself Gunpowder Cookbook - McLean

[Tristan]

Off the top of my head:

Non-Fiction:
The Foxfire Series
Nuclear War Survival Skills, by Cresson Kearney
Surviving Doomsday, Dr. Bruce Clayton
Camping and Woodcraft, by Horace Kephart
Woodcraft and Camping, by Nessmuk
The Forager's Harvest
US Army Survival Manual
The Art of the Rifle, by Col. Jeff Cooper
Quick or Dead
The Encyclopedia of Country Living, by Carla Emory
Five Acres and Independence
Square Foot Gardening, by Mel Bartholomew
Jeff Ball's 60 minute Garden, by (who else?) Jeff Ball
Gardening When It Counts
Two-Thousand Formulas, Recipes, & Trade Secrets, by Harry Bennett
Mother Earth News, magazine
Speer Reloading Manual
First Aid, by American Red Cross
The Coming Anarchy, by Robert Kaplan (I highly recommend this book!)

Fiction:
Pulling Through, by Dean Ing
Lucifer's Hammer, by Pournelle and Niven
Footfall, by Pournelle and Niven
Farnham's Freehold, by Robert Heinlein
I Am Legend


There are also innumerable on-line resources, PDF's and text files. I think it's a good idea to print them out when you find them, and place them in an organized binder for future reference.

- Tristan

[north runner]

Some more....

Tracking Wounded Deer - Smith
More Power to You - Thomsen
No Such Thing As Doomsday - Hoag
Principles of Protection, U.S. Handbook of NBC Weapon Fundamentals and Shelter Engineering Design Standards - McCarthy
The Secure Home - Skousen
The Factual Guide To The Constitution For The United States of America - Smith
Constitution Fact or Fiction - Schroder
That Every Man Be Armed - Halbrook

[Samurai Jane]

Our Enemy the State, Albert Jay Nock
The Law, Frederic Bastiat
The Discovery of Freedom, Rose Wilder Lane
Cities and the Wealth of Nations, Jane Jacobs
The Art of War, Sun Tzu

[Chuck]

The Bible

Physicians Desk Reference of Herbal Medicines

Encyclopedia of Country Living Carla Emory

Nourishing Traditions Sally Fallon

Wild Plants of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest Janice Scholfield

Naked in the Wilderness John & Jeri McPherson

[Samurai Jane]

McGuffey's Eclectic Readers

(These are a must-have for teaching the kids to read after TSHTF. They are still being published.)

[Freeholder]

The Bible
Strong's Concordance
Matthew Henry Commentary
Hymnals

Carla Emery's Encyclopedia of Country Living
Stocking Up
Root Cellaring

Seed to Seed
You Can Farm
How to Grow More Vegetables (John Jeavons)
The Harrowsmith Northern Gardener
Four-Season Harvest (Eliot Coleman)
The Seed-Starter's Handbook
The Scythe Book
Gaia's Garden
Backyard Market Gardening
Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening
Forest Farming
Popular Mechanics Handbook for Farmers
Handy Farm Devices
Sunset's New Western Garden Book
Unusual Vegetables
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
Plant Diseases
Plant Science
Growing Garden Seeds
Gardening in Clay Soil
Science in Farming
Logsdon's Homesteading
Farm Records and Accounting
Small-Scale Grain Raising

Small-scale Livestock Farming
Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners
The Draft Horse Primer
The Packgoat
Raising Sheep the Modern Way
Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats
Raising Rabbits the Modern Way
The Chicken Health Handbook
Natural Goat Care
Raising Your Own Livestock
Feeds and Feeding 11th Ed.
Your Rabbits
Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits
Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks
First Lessons In Beekeeping
Robbing the Bees
Victory Farmyard
Salad-Bar Beef
Backyard Livestock
Raising Earthworms for Profit
A Veterinary Guide for Animal Owners
Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes of the U.S.

The Forager's Harvest
The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America
Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West
Handbook of Northwestern Plants (this one only covers a few counties in western Oregon and Washington, but it covers them well)
The Mushroom Hunter's Field Guide
Audubon Field Guide to Birds
Peterson's Field Guide to Birds
Survival Skills of Native California
USAF Search and Rescue Survival Training
Wilderness Evasion
Common Plants of the Upper Klamath Basin
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
Be Expert With Map and Compass
Wildwood Wisdom
Forest Trails of Klamath County
Range Plant Handbook
Wilderness Living and Survival Skills
Hiking the Bigfoot Country

Rendering in Pen and Ink
A Handspindle Treasury
Knitting Circles Around Socks
Getting Started Knitting Socks
The Knitting Answer Book
Felting by Hand
How to Cut Your Own Or Anybody Else's Hair
Splint-woven Basketry
Willow Basketry
Deerskins Into Buckskins
North American Dye Plants
Spinning in the Old Way
The Bowyer's Bible (3 Vol. set)
Beginner's Guide to Traditional Archery
Milk Soaps
Country Woodcraft
Traditional Woodworking Hand Tools
Graham Blackburn's Illus. Furniture Making
Flintknapping

The $50 and Up Underground House Book
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond
Building a Log House in Alaska
The Hand-Sculpted House (cob construction)
Rocket Mass Heaters
Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds
Create an Oasis With Graywater
Constructing and Maintaining Your Well and Septic System
All About Papercrete
Step-by-step Guide Book on Home Plumbing
TMEN's Energy Efficiency Book
Blackburn's Illus. Housebuilding
Wiring Simpified
Sears Plumbing book
The Humanure Handbook
Building With Logs B. Alan Mackie


Where There Is No Doctor
Where There Is No Dentist
Medical Encyclopedia
Medicinal Herbal Therapy (written by a pharmacist)
God's Healing Herbs

Mathematics
Spanish/English Dictionary (2)
High School Self-Taught
World Book Encyclopedias, with set of Dictionaries
Sign Language Made Simple

Wood Stove Cookery
Gluten-free Gourmet
Protein Power

How To Repair Small Gasoline Engines
Auto Repair for Dummies
Barnacle Parp's Guide to Garden and Yard Power Tools

Possum Living
Mortgage-Free

The reason I didn't post these sooner is because it's such a long list, yet there are a lot of books that I wish I had in addition to these. I only mentioned a couple of my cookbooks, too -- I have quite a few of them.

Kathleen

[fruit loop]

If I could only have one book it would be Carla Emery's "Encyclopedia of Country Living."

Where There Is No Doctor
Red Cross first aid manual