I've read
One Second and sequel

All of JW Rawles, I think

Lucifers Hammer

Alas Babylon

&
Going Home and all sequels

What else out there is well written?

Necessary Prepper Supplies

Damn.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Takes a whole lot of fun out of the post apocalyptic fantasies.

Anything by Matthew Bracken, available on Amazon

Thanks

Read that one too

Will check it out

Apocalyptic...

Hope Trump picks her as VP so we can see a lot more of her!

"The Survivalist" series by Arthur T Bradley
"The John Matherson Series" by William R Forstchen
Read them years ago so I must've enjoyed...

Ashes books from W Johnstone are entertaining
if you're able to sort the diamonds from the coal
The Tri States is what we really need in real life
if we last long enough

Samey-same Jerry Ahern's Survivalist books

There's a good many on the shelf to read, but a
good many today seem to me that the authors
genuinely believe that some of these cul-de-sac
commandos and the LARPers of yoofloob
will actually make it and survive their fantasy
subdivision firefights and not be killed or
horribly maimed and fatally wounded

Road like posted ^ ^ ^ is probably the most
real world because the Man and the Boy
actually live by hiding from the pinheads
roaming around looking for people to kill
and eat, or kill because they get off on it.
The movie isn't bad. The Old Man Robert
Duvall probably has the premier line of
the whole show

To Ride, Shoot Straight and Tell the Truth. Jeff Cooper. If you want to get your mind right.

Forest Anon's YouTube channel?

Otherwise, I would say The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail. A useful book for modern times.

Audiobooks

Fugg all that shìt.

Get the Ball book on canning.

+1 on canning.

Better time spent on non fiction about how folks lived, both rural & urban during the depression, the real deal. The threat & violence part of it can be studied by what's going on everywhere today.

These end of world books and movies got really popular during Obama first 2 terms. Makes sense that they're popular again.

Obama changed the American dream from building your own business to building your own bunker.


Bb

The Black Autumn series. Good books on a societal collapse theme.

Also the “299 days” series. Also very good and political collapse theme.

The 14th Reinstated by Bryce Towsley

Beat me to it 🤙

Wow.... I've always liked country women.

Endure. End Times Alaska by Craig Martelle

Foxfire series

One Second After
The Right to Bear Arms After The Riots Begin
Alas Babylon

Those are story type books. Alas Babylon was required reading when I was in High School. Sophomore year I think.

Outside of those I have a few bushcraft books, can't remember names exactly. Foxfire books.

SHTF Field Manual by Stoker
Guerrilla's Guide to the Baofeng Radio

ETA - I also have these:

The Area Intelligence Handbook by Mike Shelby (good stuff in there so far)
AD-A185 971 - The Joint Low Intensity Conflict Project Report from US Army TRADOC

Watched an interesting video today too - talking about if Trump's allowed to win, it's the "powers that be" swinging right and hard right in preparation for some sort of major conflict set up by the Biden steal. World/Civil/Invasion type war. Sort of made some sense. So good manuals and information will be handy. PRINT not e-books or PDFs.

Very useful book for modern times.

good suggestion.

Heinlein's "Farnham's Freehold"

Though it delves into fantasy (swords and "kings"), The Change series by SM Stirling was entertaining. Cities become "mines" for materials.

https://smstirling.com/books/

You can't beat One Second After. It is set on the other side of Asheville, 50 miles from here, I know the area well.

---Full Disclosure---
Am am the author of these books
---End Disclosure---

Seven Cows Ebola comes to America

Shrewd King Continuation of Ebola comes to America

Rock and Fortress Character development of previous stories. Good guys get banged up.

Written based on geography of southern Michigan.

Not professional quality writing but I enjoyed writing them.

To be clear on this;
I'm too old slow and stove up to plan on surviving very long when things get dark
But I do like the entertainment value of a well written novel of the genre...

I've got canning supplies older than many of the posters here. Starving isn't how I'll go out

Anything by Frank Peretti for spiritual warfare or

Left Behind series if you’re interested in tribulation apocalypse

The Survivalist Series written by Angery American are good. It starts with "Going Home". I've read 11 of the 12 so far.

Gulag Archipeligo

On the Beach

I saw that movie. Gregory Peck, a US nuke sub commander. Hanging out in port in Australia, waiting to die. The Northern Hemisphere has been destroyed by nukes, and Aussies are just waiting for the winds to shift south. Australian government is handing out free suicide pills to all citizens.

Grim.

I was in high school when that movie came out, half the kids in ninth grade had that book on their desk. On The Beach by Nevil Shute.

I am kinda partial lately to some of the stories on the Post Apocalyptic Fiction board. Especially those by "ncsfsgm".

https://pawfiction.proboards.com/board/21/stories-written


I also liked the stories by Gary D. Ott aka Tired Old Man. The big criticism of those is that he was always hung up on having his protagonist buy a Springfield M1A.

I have a book called “Living the good life: how to live simply and sanely in a troubled world” by Scott Nearing. He and his wife left the corporate big city world after the depression and homesteaded the rest of their life. Definitely liberal/hippy sorts but lots of good info on how to live a simple happy life.

When I was a pre-teen, my dad got a subscription to Mother Earth News. Now we were a very conservative household and had to overlook a lot of the hippy stuff in there, but there were some great articles. I remember the Nearings, "Helen and Scott" I believe their column was called. Mother Earth News lifted them to god-like status. (They were self-avowed communists if I recall correctly.)


Fast forward to a few years ago I was wandering down memory lane and wondering, "whatever happened to..?" I came across a book written by a former neighbor of theirs (which I admittedly haven't read myself) titled: "Meanwhile, Next Door To The Good Life" written by Jean Hay Bright. The gist of it is.. the Nearings were probably mostly frauds, secretly lived off of trust funds, had electricity in spite of claiming they didn't, etc.

The author, and many of the commenters in the reviews, said that the writings of the Nearings inspired them to try and emulate the Nearings and many said that they abandoned corporate life, sold all their possessions, and tried to live off the land raising gardens and animals, etc, only to eventually lose everything- in spite of putting in incredibly hard work and long hours.

Said all that to say, before a person jumps in with both feet, they may want to take what the Nearings claimed with a grain of salt.

My Side of the Mountain

Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy

I’ll check them out thanks for the recommendation

Tag

The Eden Chronicles by S.M. Anderson.

Not a step by step how to series. Rather a sci-fi take written by a guy whose take on things I like.

I have dipped my toe in the water a number of times trying different authors in this genre (post apocalyptic fiction) and just always hang it up. Either it’s too gun centric and they fûck everything else up, or they are gun retarded and I can’t ignore it and skip over. Or they’re racist, or trying so hard not to be racist it’s even worse.

1 second after series started out well. Or so much I. The follow up.

There is one series that does pretty well if I can find it in my kindle I’ll post it later.

I will download them tonight. Clicked on the first link and looked like it’s kindle friendly?

The Going Home series is the best I've read, really. And yeah... The guys backpack had to weigh 200 lbs, LOL. And the hoky old Sarge Military vet was a bit much
Still... Pretty well written. Good story line, and the writer knows his guns and equipment

Going Home on Amazon

Thank-you, sir.


I hope you enjoy them.

Dahlgren

gender chalenged but accurate