184 books
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46 voters
Self Reliance Books
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,173 ratings — published 1977
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,572 ratings — published 1854
Small as an Elephant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,753 ratings — published 2011
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,105 ratings — published 1973
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,702 ratings — published 1986
How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It: Tactics, Techniques, and Technologies for Uncertain Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,294 ratings — published 2009
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre! (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,710 ratings — published 2009
Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.99 — 10,040 ratings — published 1841
Homegrown and Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.86 — 402 ratings — published
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,145 ratings — published 2007
The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing; Log Cabin Building; Mountain Crafts and Foods; Planting by the Signs; Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,932 ratings — published 1972
Patriots (The Coming Collapse)
by (shelved 6 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.67 — 5,894 ratings — published 1998
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,856 ratings — published 1973
Country Wisdom & Know-How (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.34 — 982 ratings — published 2004
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.11 — 87,458 ratings — published 1959
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,778 ratings — published 1979
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,838,028 ratings — published 2010
The River (Brian's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.83 — 33,766 ratings — published 1991
Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,016 ratings — published 1999
Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,239 ratings — published 1999
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,788 ratings — published 1995
When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,607 ratings — published 2006
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,702 ratings — published 2006
Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions: Philosophy)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.11 — 20,893 ratings — published 1844
Where There Is No Dentist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.05 — 183 ratings — published 1983
The Last American Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,820 ratings — published 2002
Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival (Bushcraft Survival Skills Series)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,431 ratings — published 2014
Prepper's Long-Term Survival Guide: Food, Shelter, Security, Off-the-Grid Power and More Life-Saving Strategies for Self-Sufficient Living (Books for Preppers)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.90 — 585 ratings — published 2014
The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,381 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,191,138 ratings — published 2008
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,140 ratings — published 2007
I Funny: A Middle School Story (I Funny, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,400 ratings — published 2012
Survival Mom: How to Prepare Your Family for Everyday Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios – The Practical Prepper's Guide to Peace of Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.10 — 535 ratings — published 2012
Crisis Preparedness Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Home Storage and Physical Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.74 — 182 ratings — published 1984
Brian's Return (Brian's Saga, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.98 — 19,802 ratings — published 1999
Brian's Winter (Brian's Saga, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.05 — 36,014 ratings — published 1996
Just in Case: How to be Self-Sufficient when the Unexpected Happens (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.85 — 494 ratings — published 2008
The Vegetable Gardener's Bible: Discover Ed's High-Yield W-O-R-D System for All North American Gardening Regions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,209 ratings — published 2000
Where There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,075 ratings — published 1977
The Prepper's Pocket Guide: 101 Easy Things You Can Do to Ready Your Home for a Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.79 — 476 ratings — published 2011
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.98 — 78,323 ratings — published 2009
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and Central North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,395 ratings — published 1978
A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,651 ratings — published 1990
When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.96 — 485 ratings — published 2000
Everything on a Waffle (Coal Harbour #1)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.71 — 11,535 ratings — published 2001
Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.98 — 548 ratings — published 1972
Emergency Food Storage & Survival Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Family Safe in a Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.95 — 397 ratings — published 2002
Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,899 ratings — published 2008
Hunt, Gather, Cook: Finding the Forgotten Feast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.20 — 540 ratings — published 2011
Survival Wisdom & Know How: Everything You Need to Know to Thrive in the Wilderness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-reliance)
avg rating 4.25 — 260 ratings — published 2007
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
― The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays












