This book list is superior to that of the Long Now Project, but serves the same purpose. It also blows the pants off GBFM's list.

Book List

Explaining the Bible's Cowboy Code in its Historical and Psycho-Social Context

Civilization is cyclical. It will collapse. It will revive. But always, it is the Hebrew that survives.

A Hebrew is one who has "Crossed Over" into the Covenant of Abraham. The first five books of the Bible outline a code of behavior that is simple, honorable, and brutally powerful. While Christians have their heads in the heavenly clouds, the Hebrew enjoys the sweet things of life full lustily, without a worry for the afterlife.

Body, spirit, and mind. Every man needs a code of ethics, and a plan of action. The Bible has all of that. It takes teaching to see it. These books help. They are also the most important (but not the only) books essential to sustain or rebuild civilization.

Top Priority

1. Bible. King James or NIV.
2. Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times, by Steve Solomon
3. Institutes of Biblical Law, by John Rousas Rushdoony
   • Vol I
   • Vol II
   • Vol III
4. Convict Conditioning, by coach Paul Wade
   • Convict Conditioning 1
   • Convict Conditioning 2

High Priority

1. The Humanure Handbook, by Joseph Jenkins
2. Dead Men's Secrets, by Jonathan Gray
3. Brawn, by Stuart McRobert
   • Brawn, 3rd Edition (2007)
   • Beyond Brawn, 3rd Edition (2012)
   • Build Muscle, Lose Fat, Look Great, 2nd Edition (2013)
4. The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, by Howard Bloom
5. Ishmael series, by Daniel Quinn
   • My Ishmael
   • The Story of B
   • Ishmael
6. Forbidden Knowledge: the Bible's Origins, by Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre
7. The Difficult Words of Jesus, by David Bivin and Roy Blizzard
   • Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights From a Hebrew Perspective
   • New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus: Insights from His Jewish Context

Good Reads

1. Art of War, by Sun Tzu (500BC)
2. Kama Sutra, by Vatsyayana (200)
3. The Book of the Courtier, by Baldassare Castiglione (1528)
4. The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli (1532)
5. Book of Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi (1645)
6. The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Baltasar Gracian y Morales (1647)
7. Martine's Hand-Book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness, by Arthur Martine (1866)
8. Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky (1971)

Health

1. Becoming the Iceman, by Wim Hof and Justin Rosales
2. Eat Stop Eat, by Brad Pilon
3. Choose! Life or Death: Reams Biological Theory of Ionization, by Carey A. Reams

Red Pill

1. In Defense of Women, by H. L. Mencken
2. Sex and Destiny, the Politics of Human Fertility, by Germaine Greer
3. Married Man Sex Life, by Athol Kay
4. The Rational Male, by Rollo Tomassi

History/Theology/Science

1. The Origin of Speeches, by Isaac E. Mozeson
2. Quranic Geography, by Dan Gibson
3. The Earth is Not Moving, by Marshall Hall (Link)
4. Last Skeptic of Science, by Ralph Rene
5. NASA Mooned America, by Ralph Rene
6. Rabbi Akiba's Messiah, by Daniel Gruber
7. The Worship of Augustus Caesar, by Alexander Del Mar
8. The Temples that Jerusalem Forgot, by Ernest L. Martin
9. The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity's Self-Inflicted Wound, by Sir Anthony Buzzard and Charles F Hunting.
10. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee, by Bart Ehrman
11. The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis
12. The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis

Home Schooling

Train a child in the way in which he is to go.

1. Underground History of American Education, by John Taylor Gatto (2003)
2. Ray's Arithmetic Series, by Ray (1834)
   • Primary Arithmetic
   • Intellectual Arithmetic
   • Practical Arithmetic
   • Higher Arithmetic
   • Elementary Algebra
   • Higher Algebra.
3. McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, 6 volumes (1837)
   • Primer
   • Pictorial Primer
   • First Reader
   • Second Reader
   • Third Reader
   • Fourth Reader
4. Gray's Anatomy, by Henry Gray (1858) Link: Online PDF
5. Spencerian Penmanship, by Platt Rodgers Spencer (1866)
6. Scouting for Boys, by Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1908)
7. Caveman Chemistry, by Kevin Dunn (2003)
8. In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, by Dr. Walt Brown (2008) Link: Online Version

Entertainment

This section has little to do with the Bible, but can provide some relaxation and amusement if the books listed above get too heavy. Children's books are also included.

The books on this list were chosen for their lasting cultural influence. If you read these books, you will recognize many references to them in your day to day life.

If you are interested in Russia, these are considered the great novels:

If you are interested in Asia, these are considered the great novels:

There are also many significant short stories, fables, and fairy tales that are best known on their own, even more than the books they were published in:

	Arabian Nights	Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp
	Arabian Nights	Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
	Arabian Nights	The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor
Charles Perrault	Tales of Mother Goose	Blue Beard
Charles Perrault	Tales of Mother Goose	Cinderella
Charles Perrault	Tales of Mother Goose	Little Red Riding Hood
Charles Perrault	Tales of Mother Goose	Puss in Boots
Charles Perrault	Tales of Mother Goose	Sleeping Beauty
Grimm brothers	Grimm's Fairy Tales	Hansel and Gretel
Grimm brothers	Grimm's Fairy Tales	Rapunzel
Grimm brothers	Grimm's Fairy Tales	Rumpelstiltskin
Grimm brothers	Grimm's Fairy Tales	Snow White
Grimm brothers	Grimm's Fairy Tales	The Bremen Town Musicians
Grimm brothers	Grimm's Fairy Tales	The Elves and the Shoemaker
Grimm brothers	Grimm's Fairy Tales	The Frog Prince
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont	(1756)	Beauty and the Beast
Goethe	(1797)	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	poem
Robert Southey	(1837)	Goldilocks, the Story of the Three Bears
Hans Christian Andersen	(8 May 1835)	Princess and the Pea
Hans Christian Andersen	(16 December 1835)	Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen	(7 April 1837)	The Little Mermaid
Hans Christian Andersen	(7 April 1837)	The Emperor's New Clothes
Hans Christian Andersen		The Ugly Duckling
Robert Browning	(1842)	Pied Piper of Hamelin	poem
Joseph Jacobs	English Fairy Tales (1890)	Jack and the Beanstalk
Hans Christian Andersen		The Snow Queen
Washington Irving	Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon	Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving	Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon	Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving	Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon	The Spectre Bridegroom
Shakespeare	First Folio	A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare	First Folio	Hamlet
Shakespeare	First Folio	Julius Caesar
Shakespeare	First Folio	Macbeth
Shakespeare	First Folio	Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare	First Folio	Othello
Shakespeare	First Folio	Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare	First Folio	The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare	First Folio	The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare	First Folio	The Tempest
Shakespeare	First Folio	Twelfth Night
Edgar Allan Poe		The Cask of Amontillado
Edgar Allan Poe		The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe		The Gold-Bug
Edgar Allan Poe		The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe		The Pit and the Pendulum
Edgar Allan Poe		The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe		The Raven	poem
Samuel Taylor Coleridge		Kubla Khan	poem
Samuel Taylor Coleridge		Rime of the Ancient Mariner	poem