Further Reading
Updated December 2025
Learning never ends. If you've managed to read all the other articles on this site, congratulations! It's a lot of information.
But we've only begun to touch the surface of many of the prepping and survival subjects and topics introduced here.
We think the books below are a great addition to your collection.
Some you should keep print copies of, and all you should have on your emergency Kindle/iPad.
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100 Deadly Skills: Survival Edition: The SEAL Operative's Guide to Surviving in the Wild and Being Prepared for Any Disaster
Typical Price: $19
This book is awesome, informative, and best of all fun. Packed with illustrations to make the concepts easier to learn and digest, and quicker to review later on - this is one of our favorite survival books and you'll love it too.
Emerson has 4 titles in his collection now, and each one of them is what the kids call "a banger." So if you liked the 100 Survival Edition, then check out his other ones.
Prepper's Instruction Manual
Typical Price: $19
This is a good primer to get you started on the ideas of prepping. Small and simple to digest topics make this book easy to pick up and put down without having to do marathon reads.
Basic info only, but gives you a broad overview of what you need to start thinking about.
See our full review here.
Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag
Typical Price: $17
Creek Stewart's book is really great. He has spent a lot of time thinking and writing about bug out bags, and has put together a great reference guide. He has checklists for each family member as to what to carry and what to consider.
It's not a one-size-fits-all approach but a launch-pad for your own investigations. A very worthy read.
See our full review here.
The Survival Medicine Handbook: The Essential Guide for When Help is NOT on the Way 4th Edition
Typical Price: $40
Check out our full review of The Survival Medicine Handbook here.
NY Times and Amazon bestselling authors JOE ALTON, MD and AMY ALTON, APRN are on a mission to put a medically prepared person in every family.
In natural disasters, epidemics, and civil unrest, the ambulance might not be heading in your direction when needed. In a world where modern hospitals are overwhelmed or don't exist due to a catastrophe, you might become the highest medical asset left to your family. Are you prepared to deal with medical issues if the rescue helicopter isn't just over the horizon?
The FOURTH EDITION of the bestselling book excellence award® winner in medicine THE SURVIVAL MEDICINE HANDBOOK™ is a comprehensive guide to help the average person keep their loved ones healthy in any situation where help is not on the way.
The Guerrilla's Guide To The Baofeng Radio
This is an excellent guide for how to use radio devices smartly and with success. The techniques outlined in this book apply to any radio, not just the Baofeng and I would consider this essential reading if you are planning on using 2 way radios in your emergency communications plan.
The Guerrilla's Guide To The Baofeng Radio is a handbook for those finding themselves in an austere environment, an underground resistance, or going into harm's way with one of the most common pieces of communications equipment in the world.
Going far beyond simple programming or what's written from the Amateur Radio perspective, this manual goes in-depth on how to communicate, creating a communications plan, improvised wire antennas, digital operations and encryption in an easy to follow, step-by-step format based on combat proven methods.
Be Expert with Map & Compass
Typical Price: $15
Just got a shiny new compass? Great! So you've figured out where north is, and that's a great start, but there is quite a bit more to orienteering than that.
Here's a book that's good for the family, one with games and practice ideas included, but which dives into the topic pretty thoroughly.
Making the Best of Basics
Typical Price: $10 - 46
We love this one so much we bought two of them. It's that useful, and in the event you will need the knowledge in the book (meaning you have no other options, you may want to adopt some of these practices already) that means someone else will too, so you have a spare copy for your extended family - you wont want to lend out your copy!
The Encyclopedia of Country Living
Typical Price: $40
If like us, you grew up a city-slicker (or suburban-slicker?) than this guide will school you on the ways of country living.
What might amaze you is how little you actually know about how the world really operates and how little understanding you have about how to live beyond the range of the nearest supermarket and shopping mall. An unreal amount of info in here, and fun to read.
The Book of Herbal Wisdom: Using Plants as Medicines
Typical Price: $18
Are you foraging yet? Get outside already and learn about how amazing nature is and blow your mind when you learn how half the stuff you think of as weeds is actually edible, and usually better for you than what you can buy in the store!
You could spend a lifetime studying plants and never even begin to learn all there is about them...so start now!
Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival
Typical Price: $8
A good book for the wilderness buffs. Some advanced information regarding trapping, and sometimes the author assumes you know a little more than you might.
Also we felt ourselves wanting more images of the concepts presented, but that aside its still a useful resource for Bushcrafting.
See our full review here.
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
Typical Price: $16
Wow wow wow. This book is fascinating. Not just from the perspective of rebuilding society after all-out-collapse, but from a perspective of what human knowledge is needed to create the world we live in today.
It really shows just how far we've come, and what inventions have changed our world. A MUST read for anyone.
See our full review here.
Where There Is No Doctor
Typical Price: $25
Hey guess what? In an emergency situation, there will probably be too few doctors and too many patients. Crazy idea right? So how are you going to help yourself and your neighbors out?
Beyond a bullet and a bottle of whiskey there is a multitude of options, dig?
Prepper's Long-Term Survival Guide
Typical Price: $15
Prepare your home and family for any life-threatening catastrophe with this step-by-step survivalist guide filled with techniques, strategies, and DIY projects from a lifelong prepping expert Jim Cobb.
This book teaches you how to survive when nothing returns to normal for weeks, months or even years, heaven forbid!
See our full review here.
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