Reading List Update

• Building a Story Brand 2.0 by Donald Miller
• The Old West's First Power Couple: The Fremonts, The Custers and Their Epic Quest for Manifest Destiny by William R. Nester
• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
• Cry Havoc by A. American
• Max Velocity trilogy

Winter 2025 Books

• Tactical Wisdom series by Joe Dolio

• Be Your Future Self by Dr. Benjamin Hardy

• Neighborhood Watch and 1000 Miles of Bad Road series by E. E. Isherwood

• Dragon Days by H. John Poole

• Awesome Arizona by Roger Naylor

• Trackers series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

• various Matthew Bracken books

• My Wars by Richard Bushong

• Helno-Gal by Walter Ram

• Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth

Latest Books

I haven't posted a books read list in a while, but not for lack of reading:

• The Three Cornered War: The Union, The Confederacy and Native Peoples in the Fight For the West by Megan Kate Wilson 
• Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II by Chris Bishop
• Herbal Medic: A Green Beret's Guide to Emergency Medical Preparedness and Natural First Aid by Sam Coffman
• Rosemary Gladstar's Medicial Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Use and Grow by Rosemary Gladstar
• Combat Contrails: Vietnam by William B. Scott
• Crowns in the Gutter by Ted S. Raicer
• Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia
• Spymaster: Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief by Tenant Bagley
• Small Arms of WWII: USA by Ian McCollum

Dystopian Fiction

A bunch of dystopian/prepper/zombie/apocalyptic fiction series I have been reading over the past few years:

• Going Home (aka Survivalist) by Angery American - first few books were great but then it got a bit repetitive
• Charlie's Requiem by Walt Browning and Angery American - gritty parallel series to Going Home
• 299 Days by Glen Tate - my favorite series and the most realistic since some of it has already started
• Extinction Survival by Walt Browning - fun zombie series based in the San Diego area
• Survivalist Series by Arthur Bradley - another zombie series that started great but ended up being repetitive
• Off Gride Survivor by Connor McCoy - a decent EMP series
• Patriot Dawn by Max Velocity - great two book tactically-focused series
• 2050 by Phil M. Williams - fun, futuristic series on the conflict between authoritarianism and liberty
• Apocalypse Revealed by Michael Zargona - good collapse story

Stack of Books Read

• Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
  
• An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon Dafoe
  
• Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 by John C. McManus
  
• Revolutionary War Soldier 1775 - 1783 by Keith Wilbur
  
• Dutch Oven Camp Cooking by Vernon Winteroni
  
• Abandoned Southern California by Joanna Kalafatis
  
• The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War by Mark Stille
  

Summer Books

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer
  
• War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers and an American Invasion by Jeff Guinn
  
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
  
• Life of Soldier on the Western Frontier by Jeremy Agnew
  
• Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
  

Winter Books

 Been a while since I posted a books list...

• Imperfect Union: How Jesse and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity and Helped Cause the Civil War by Steve Inskeep
  
• West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 by Claudio Saunt
  
• Alone in the Fortress of the Bears: 70 Days Surviving Alaska Wilderness Foraging, Fishing Hunting by Bruce Nelson
  
• Mammoth Gold
• Tales Along Camino Sierra by Dale and Gayle Woodruff
  
• Experiencing Medieval Europe by Kenneth Bartlett
  
• Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War by Eliot Cohen and John Gooch
  
• Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Andrea Pitzer
  
• The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands 1942 - 1944 by Ian Toll
• History of Hitler's Empire by Thomas Childers
  

Survivalist Books

 Been reading a lot of survivalist books, fiction and non-fiction.

• Survivalist series books 1 to 5 by A. American - gold standard for prepper fiction
  
• Bound to Survive series 1 and 2 by Charley Hogwood - mostly fun, sometimes serious but always educational
  
• 2050 series books 1 to 3 by Phil M. Williams - seems much closer than 30 years in the future
  
• Turn Red Tomorrow by Michael Zargona - a lot going on in this book
  
• Charlie's Requiem book 1 by A. American and Walt Browning - another take in the same Survivalist universe
• Build the Perfect Bug Out Vehicle by Creek Stewart - not exactly a daily driver
• Small Unit Tactics: An Illustrated Manual by Matthew Luke - technical, but not FM, for small unit ambushes
  
• Contact! A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival by Max Velocity - less technical than Luke's book
  
• Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery - title says it all
  

Book Potpourri

• The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
  
• Who Was Davy Crockett by Gail Herman
  
• American Revolution for Dummies by Steve Wiegand
  
• Adventure Expedition One: Plan and Execute Your First Successful Expedition by Aaron Linsdau and Dr. Terry Williams
• Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade
  

Pacific War Books

• Combined FleetDecoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy during World War II by John Prados - extremely detailed account of US intelligence in the Pacific War but overly detailed on operations and tactics
  
• USN Carriers v IJN Carriers1942: The Pacific 1942 by Mark Stile
  
• World War II US Fast Carrier TaskForce Tactics: 1942 - 1945 by Brian Lane Herder
  
• Carrier Warfare in the Pacific: An Oral History by E. T. Woolridge
  

Lockdown reading

• Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History Financial Disasters by Connel Fullenkamp
• San Dieguito Heritage by Maura Wiegand
• The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession and Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by Andrew Lawler
• Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape Our Universe by Martin Rees
• Aircraft Carriers Vol. 2: 1946 - 2005 by Norman Polmar
• Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy

Winter Book Reading

• My Twenty Five Years in Provence by Peter Mayle
• American Revolution by Alan Guelzo
• Man-made Wonders ofthe World
• Socialism Sucks by Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell
• Sixty Meters to Anywhere by Brendan Leonard
• Refighting thePacific War: An Alternative History of World War II edited by Jim Bresnahan
• Carrier! Life Aboard a WWII Aircraft Carrier by LCDR Max Miller

Books

• Ancient Civilizations of North America by Edwin Barnhart
• Julian City and Cuyamaca Country by Charles R. LeManager
• Fake by Robert Kiyosaki
• 1917: Lenin, Wilson and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Arthur Herman
• 12 Essential Scientific Concepts by Indre Viskontas

Books

• Turning Points inMiddle East History by Eamonn Gearon
• Drinking With theSaints: The Sinner's Guide to a Holy Happy Hour by Michael P. Foley
• The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge
• Ramona and RoundAbout: A History of San Diego's Little Known Backcountry by Charles LeManager
• Southern California'sWWII Aircraft by Cory Graff and Patrick Devine
• Highways to History: A Driving Guide to the Historic Places of the San Diego Mountains by Christopher Wray
• How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII by Lars Celander
• Geography forDummies by Charles A. Heatwole
• Genetics for Dummies by Tara Rodden Robinson
• The American West: History, Myth and Legacy by Patrick Allitt
• World War I: The Great War by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

More Winter Books

• The Log of a Snow Survey by Patrick Armstrong
• Cities of theAncient World by Steven Tuck
• California Plants: A Guide to Our Iconic Flora by Matt Ritter
• The Practical Geologist: The Introductory Guide to the Basics of Geology and to Collecting and Identifying Rocks by Dougal Dixon
• Building a Bug Out Bag: Create a Plan To Get Home In the Event of a Disaster by Kevin Kiernan
• The Six Day War: The History and Legacy of the 1967 Arab-Isreali War and Its Impact on the Middle East
• The Promise of the GrandCanyon: John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and his Vision for the American West by John F. Foss
• Around the World in80 Trees by Jonathan Drori
• The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
• Atlas of World WarII: History's Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography by Neil Kagan et. al.
• Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the Collection by Neil Kagan
• How to Listen To and Understand Great Music by Robert Greenberg

Winter Books

• Cowboy Cooking by Ken Rollins
• Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
• Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
• Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy
• The Spy and theTraitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
• From Makin toBougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War by Jon T. Hoffman
• The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare by Lian Ballantyne
• Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly
• Customs of the World: Using Cultural Intelligence to Adapt, Wherever you Are by David Livermore

Books and Lectures

• Jerky: The Fatted Calf's Guide to Cooking and Preserving Dry Meaty Goods by Taylor Boetticher and Toponia Miller
• In the Kingdom ofIce: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette by Hampton Sides
• Coffee Isn't RocketScience: A Quick and Easy Guide to Buying, Brewing, Serving, Roasting and Tasting Coffee by Sebastien Racineux and Chung-Len Tran
• A Brief History of Time by Stephan Hawking
• Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History by Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
• The Black Death: The World's Most Devastating Plague by Professor Dorsey Armstrong
• The Other Side ofHistory: Daily Life in the Ancient World by Professor Robert Garland
• Human Errors: A Panorama of our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes by Nathan H. Lents

Midsummer Books

Great World Religions: Islam by John L. Esposito
The Gold Hunters: A First-Hand Picture of Life in California Mining Camps in the Early Fifties by J. D. Borthwik
The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East by Abraham Rabinovich
The the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration by Edward J. Larson
World War I: The Definitive Visual History by R. G. Grant
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition by Paul Watson
Foundations of Economic Prosperity by Daniel W. Drezner

Short Book List

• The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors by Dan Jones
• San Diego County Mammal Atlas
• San Diego County Parks: Over 100 Years by Ellen L. Sweet

Books and Lectures

• Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills by Professor Steven Novella
• Head for the High Country by David Caffey
• NavCivGuide by Thomas J. Cutler
• Sink 'Em All: Submarine Warfare in the Pacific by Charles Lockwood
• Condition Red: Destroyer Action in the South Pacific by Frederick J. Bell
• Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
• History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration by Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius