I started reading apocalypse novels,
After my father built our house, we moved from the cypress-built bungalow into the log cabin. We then rented out the cypress bungalow. Our renters were into survival prep and apocalypse books, which got me into post-apocalyptic science fiction.
Here are Amazon links to the books I read. These are books from the 1950s to 1960s, listed by my favorites. I’ll post links to more recent books in upcoming survival posts.
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I’m in the process of reading apocalypse books that are serialized. I joined Kindle Unlimited and read several serial books, a lot by Kyla Stone. I seem to like to read books in a series. I’m obviously a science-fiction nerd, so I will post links to my favorite sci-fi books in a separate post in this genre. (I loved Heinlein!)
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Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
[lasso id=”2892″ link_id=”2907″ ref=”amzn-alas-babylon”]Tomorrow by Philip Wylie
[lasso id=”2893″ link_id=”2908″ ref=”amzn-tomorrow-beyond-armageddon”]Triumph by Philip Wylie
[lasso id=”2894″ link_id=”2909″ ref=”amzn-triumph-beyond-armageddon”]Sound familiar? I loved this book.
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
[lasso id=”2895″ link_id=”2910″ ref=”amzn-on-the-beach”]The most important novel of the Atomic Age.” — Washington Post.
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
[lasso id=”2896″ link_id=”2911″ ref=”amzn-the-three-stigmata-of-palmer-eldritch”]No Blade of Grass by John Christopher
[lasso id=”2898″ link_id=”2912″ ref=”amzn-no-blade-of-grass-2″]Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
[lasso id=”2899″ link_id=”2913″ ref=”amzn-earth-abides”]First published in 1949, George R. Stewart’s award-winning Earth Abides is one of the most influential science-fiction novels of the twentieth century. It remains a fresh, provocative story of apocalyptic pandemic, societal collapse, and rebirth.
I’m the daughter of 2 original survivalists who moved from the north to sunny Florida. My mother, along with her parents, bought 30 mostly uncleared acres in 1938. The first home was made of pecky-cypress and built by a house-raising. My mother raised 10,000 chickens.
My divorced mother met and married my father in 1948. From pine trees on our property, he hand-built a log cabin. He also built a tarpaper-lined 65’x45′ pool with duck pond overflow. We had an artesian well for our water and powering our hand-built waterwheel for the pool. He built a substantial cantilevered roof workshop with a car pit in the massive cement floor.
Since my early teens, I have read a ton of books about survival, prepping, the bomb, an apocalypse, homestead living, and SHTF situations. As an adult, I continue to read sci-fi, survival prepping, and science. I practice a prepper lifestyle albeit a bit modified, read a lot, buy a lot, pack/store a lot of anything survival related.
Read my About Me post for more details on our self-sufficient living. I lived there until I went to college in 1968.
My SurvivalPrepperSupply.com blog strives to educate individuals on coping with natural and human-caused disasters using article posts about preparing for emergencies.
