The Apocalypse Reading List

Get thee to a library. The Net will be down, but there will still be books, and zombies don't eat books. But looters might get there first (either looking for the collected knowledge of civilization, or looking for fire starters).

What are the titles you absolutely have to have on the bookshelf in your bunker?

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Permalink Reply by Jim MacDougal on June 13, 2011 at 11:37am

A Boy Scout Handbook. Also, a copy of the U.S. Air Force Survival Handbook. And a good text on edible plants (I would suggest any or all of Euell Gibbons' 9 books).

Permalink Reply by Robert J. Shields Jr. on June 13, 2011 at 7:02pm

All the simon R green books for leisure.

Cook books, how to survive a zombie apocalypse, and its variants, sailing books, wood working books, building books. things like that. Not to mention history books.

Permalink Reply by Jim MacDougal on June 13, 2011 at 8:39pm

For history and for their re-read factor, the 4 Books of Lists and the People's Almanacs, a recent Guinness Book of Records, and anything from Mental Floss.

Permalink Reply by Niklavs Kalnins on September 4, 2011 at 10:13am

A hard-cover copy of Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' for last resort self-defence.

Permalink Reply by ryan brennan on September 4, 2011 at 10:14am

a book titled 'how to survive ANY situation'

case closed.

Permalink Reply by Bonnie Watson on September 4, 2011 at 10:15am

Sherlock Holmes because it's awesome and a lot of dictionaries to build a barrier with.

Permalink Reply by Mercedes on September 4, 2011 at 10:22am

There's a book my friend let me borrow, it's called "The Zombie Survival Guide", it tells you how to hide, how to kill zombies, and much more.

Others that would be good to have are The Last Apprentice books, just in case some witches or ghosts or anything else from the dark pops up.

Permalink Reply by ryan brennan on September 4, 2011 at 12:53pm

Necromancy is a likely cause of a zombie apocalypse.

Permalink Reply by Mercedes on September 12, 2011 at 1:30pm

The Last Apprentice books aren't about necromancy. go away.

Permalink Reply by spiderboenz on September 8, 2011 at 9:38am

ZSG would actually get you killed, more than likely.

Permalink Reply by Shila Buchholz on September 10, 2011 at 8:36pm

I actually love ZSG, how do you figure Max Brooks's book would get someone killed in a zombie attack?

Permalink Reply by Andrew Studders on October 19, 2011 at 5:03pm

my notebook it has all my survival and engineering idea's in it it's my survival must haha