“Second Tier” List of Recommended Specialty Books

I subscribe to a Good, Better, Best philosophy when it comes to preparedness resources.  I would rather have a good piece of equipment RIGHT NOW, than have plans to buy the best most ultimate piece of gear someday.  Then as I learn to use that good piece of equipment, it helps me know what too look for when I have the resources to upgrade.

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