Non-Fiction TEOTWAWKI Recommendations?

Hey all--

So, I'm a bookseller. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is one of my favorite genres--thank the gods there's always a new apocalypse around the corner!

Anyway, I'm itching to do a display, but I want to mix nonfiction works in with the fiction. A couple I can think of are The World Without Us and The Knowledge. I can, of course, throw in some books about canning and preserving, spinning, maybe outdoor cooking.

Can anybody think of any specific titles--perhaps more general ones, like the two I mention by name--I could order in? If you do, I promise I'll share my canned goods with you when it all goes to hell.

Thanks for the suggestions!

eta: I found a couple more. The Disaster Diaries and How to Survive The End of the World As We Know It both look pretty good.

Ha! I woould have suggested James Wesley Rawles' book, but more for comic relief. (Read my review.)

Someone who talks about many of the same things, but in a more reasonable voice is Sharon Astyk, especially in Making Home: Adapting Our Homes and Our Lives to Settle in Place. Her thoughts are well worth examining and promoting.

Wendy Brown has a similar title that I haven't been able to reach - Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs: The Thrivalist's Guide to Life Without Oil.

Yeah, I'm going to get a couple of the comic relief/wtf prepper stuff like the Rawles (going to your review next) and the Sam Sheridan, but I do want to keep it more serious, rebuilding society type stuff.

Thanks for the titles!!

eta: Terrific review--thanks!

I have to say, I quite dislike that premise that it's going to be us against the rest of the world Mad Max style. I much prefer the (probably more realistic) vision of Emily St. John Mandel in Station Eleven or even that of George R. Stewart's Earth Abides (despite its depiction of post-apocalyptic us as lethargic and resistant to getting off our asses to do stuff). Anyway...

There are some documentary films that would be fun.

Life After People and National Geographic World Without Humans.

Oh, I've seen Life After People--that's like the documentary version of The World Without Us. Cool!

If you can get hold of them, a number of 60s/70s civil defence guides could fit in a display like that.

https://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear+war+civil+defence+guides+survival+1960s&...

Richard Preston's stuff is good too. The Hot Zone & The Demon in the Freezer in particular.

Ooh, good suggestions both, geitebukkeskjegg and EnriqueFreeque.

As far as the civil defense guides go, even if I can't get any to sell, one or two could still add greatly to the display as a whole.

The Hot Zone = The Stand (sort of). Yes!

In the "how to survive category": Bruce Clayton's Life After Doomsday and Dean Ing's The Chernobyl Syndrome

>8 BeckyJG: By sheer coincidence, I came across, in an old box of books, a book I was given in elementary school: Your Chance to Live. It has some wonderful black and white line drawings and is from the days before FEMA. It covers more than just nuclear war.

Tripping across titles this morning that I'd like to read.

Swan Song, a classic post nuclear holocaust book.

And by recent LT member Peter R. Stone, the Forager trilogy; same general theme, set in Australia.

BTW, have you done this display yet? Can we get pictures?

Fantastic! Want want want!!

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to do the display because...I'm closing my store. (Insert frowny face emoji here.) We hope to reopen, but until then...

Hi Becky,
It looks like you were replying to several posts, but doing it in seperate posts isn't necessary, and there is a great way to insert a code so that the post you are referencing is obvious.

greater than sign and the post number, makes it appear as if by magic.

So, replying to your last post, I do
> 13 but remove the space between.
>13 BeckyJG: See?

And then >14 2wonderY:, I reference myself.

>13 BeckyJG: Oh! Too bad about the bookstore! Big frowny

>14 2wonderY: Thanks! I always wondered how that was done...

>14 2wonderY: Me too! I feel as if I might have known that at one point, but forgot. Thanks!