Once you start to understand the fundamental skills contained in the non-fiction must have list, you may want to learn more details. This next list of recommended specialty books is a little more in depth. It will be followed by a third list at a later date.
- Adventure Medical Kits A Comprehensive Guide to Wilderness & Travel Medicine by Eric A. Weiss, M.D
- All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
- Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Backwoods Home Magazine Archives
- Complete Guide to Amateur Radio
- Countryside Magazine Archives
- Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival by Jack A. Spigarelli
- Ditch Medicine: Advanced Field Procedures For Emergencies by Hugh Coffee
- Don’t Get Caught With Your Pantry Down by James Stevens
- Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game by John Mettler
- Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis by Peggy Layton
- Emergency War Surgery by Dr. Martin Fackler, et al.
- Essential Bushcraft by Ray Mears
- The Complete Family Guide to Natural Home Remedies: Safe and Effective Treatments for Common Ailments (Illustrated Health Reference) by C. Norman Shealy
- Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times by Steve Solomon
- Great Livin’ in Grubby Times : New Ways to Survive in Style by Don Paul
- Guide to Emergency Survival Communications by Dave Ingram
- In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection by Massad F. Ayoob
- Just in Case by Kathy Harrison
- Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse By James Wesley Rawles
- Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money by Dolly Freed
- PREPAREDNESS NOW!: An Emergency Survival Guide (Expanded and Revised Edition) (Process Self-Reliance) by Aton Edwards
- Putting Food By: Fifth Edition by Janet Greene
- Ayoob Files: The Book by Massad F. Ayoob
- Boy Scouts Handbook: The First Edition, 1911
- The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining
- Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin’s, Wagon Making and More Affairs of Plain Living
- Foxfire 3
- Foxfire 4
- Foxfire 5
- The Have More Plan by Ed and Carolyn Robinson
- The Home Water Supply: How to Find, Filter, Store, and Conserve It by Stu Campbell
- Tom Brown’s Field Guide to Nature Observation and Tracking by Tom Brown Jr.
- Total Resistance by H. von Dach
- SAS Urban Survival Handbook by John “Lofty: Wiseman
- When Technology Fails (Revised & Expanded): A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein
- Where There Is No Vet by Bill Forse
- Wilderness Medicine, 5th Edition by Paul S. Auerbach