Apocalypse book list

After posting the “prepper list” here last week I had a lot of people ask what books they need.  You need these books in hard copy.  HARD COPY.  Get these books.  In no particular order.

  1. The Foxfire Books
  2. The David Gingery Books.  “Build your own metal working shop from scrap”
  3. The Encylopedia of Country Living, Carla Emery
  4. The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving
  5. The Iliad and Odyssey
  6. Complete Plato
  7. Complete Aristotle
  8. Boethius “The Consolation of Philosophy”
  9. St. Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Contra Gentiles”
  10. St. Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologiae”
  11. Dante’s “Divine Comedy”
  12. Hobbe’s “Leviathan”
  13. Machiavelli, “The Prince”
  14. Machiavelli, “The Discourses on Livy”
  15. Machiavelli, “The Art of War”
  16. Clausewitz, “On War”
  17. “The Landmark Caesar”
  18. “The Landmark Thucydides”
  19. “The Landmark Herodotus”
  20. A bible
  21. Gibbons, “Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire”
  22. Oman, “The Peninsular War”
  23. Shelby Foote, “The Civil War, A Narrative”
  24. Gerald Doyle, “When There is No Doctor: Preventive and Emergency Healthcare in Challenging Time”
  25. Old medical texts, Pre-1954
  26. Audel’s “Carpenters and Builders Guide” vol 1-4
  27. Steve George, “Basic Wiring Techniques”
  28. Richter and Hartwell “Practical Electrical Wiring”
  29. Hensel and Graumont, “Encyclopedia of Knots and Fancy Rope Work”
  30. Livy, The Early History of Rome
  31. Solomon, “Gardening When it Counts”
  32. Stein, “When Technology Fails”
  33. Alton, “Survival Medicine Handbook”
  34. Green Lion’s Press “Complete Euclid”
  35. Hoyle’s Rules of Games
  36. Durant, “The Story Of Civilization
  37. Oxford English Dictionary, micrographic edition.

 

Moar to come.

9 thoughts on “Apocalypse book list”

  1. With all the recent political mucking about with definitions I’ve decided pre-apocalypse to get a physical copy of a good dictionary and am looking for an encyclopedia too. Those might be good post-apocalypse books.

      1. Been looking for a list like this for a while, and love what you’ve got so far. To the dictionary suggestion, I’d recommend a remake of Noah Websters first dictionary and also as old of a “modern” dictionary as you can get, like pre-1960.

  2. Great list! I went ahead and bought some of these. Started reading “Gardening when it Counts”, and “The Story of Civilization Vol 1.” ( really enjoying this one especially). I wish I had these years ago. Thanks for posting this.

  3. Just stumbled across the great books podcast, and heard you mention this list. Love the thought of actually owning hard copies of important documents. A compilation of American foundational documents could be good (like those included in vol. 43 of the Harvards Classics). Also, early educational documents to teach kids the three R’s would be good for those in the family way (good examples can be found at donpotter.net).
    And a suggestion for the prior dictionary recommendation is the facsimile 1828 Noah Webster dictionary.

  4. Thought of another good suggestion. Essential Woodworking Hand Tools by Paul Sellers. Very knowledgeable and useful reference on the use and maintenance of woodworking hand tools.

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