10 Books I'll keep during an apocalypse

[snowynight]

Assuming the apocalypse has come. Which ten books will I keep/try to get during my bookshop raid?
General Knowledge

• 
  Britannica All New Kids' Encyclopedia: What We Know & what We Don't: in a world without the internet and library system, knowledge is important. I choose this one because it's single volume.
  

Survival

I live in a city and know nothing about the wilderness. I need every knowledge to survive.

• First Aid Manual: First aid is important now. It'll only be more important what I don't have access to medicine. Besides, it'll be helpful to others too
• Sarajevo: Survival Guide by Miroslav Prstojevic, Zeljko Puljic, Maja Razovic & Aleksandra Wagner : I need every tip to survive in a city that everything breaks apart before I escape, and a reminder about people's resilience.
• SAS Survival Handbook by John 'Lofty' Wiseman: For wilderness survival.
• Field Guide to local flora: to know what to eat and not.
• The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley: For finding water and navigation.
  

Literature, Humanities and Art
I want to remember that life is beyond survival.

• The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh
  Book by A. A. Milne: It's charming and let me escape from the reality for awhile. It'll also reminds me of the post-Apocalypse Winnie the Pooh AU fic. I would like to recall fandom and people's creativity


• Little Mushroom by Yi Shi Si Zhou： As a post apocalyptic novel with heavy themes, I think reading it'll be catharsis and give me insight about potential pitfalls of rebuilding the society, how the path of hell is paved with good intentions.


• The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-modern Art by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
Even in the Apocalypse, people can still appreciate beauty and hobbies

Self Care

• The CBT Journal for Mental Health: Evidence-Based Prompts to Improve Your Well-Being by Jordan A. Madison

Mental health is important, especially during an Apocalypse. I find the CBT approach useful for my self care

What'll be your choices?

Comments

[schneefink]

I like your categories and those seem like smart choices. I would pick different ones for the "literature" category but right now I am blanking on what. My first idea was to take something long but then the odds that it will be inconvenient to carry and likely to be left behind at some point are higher. So better something with very high reread value. Something comfortable, something thought-provoking, maybe some poetry.

[snowynight]

Thank you!

My first thought about literature is something long too, but it'll really test my carrying capacity. I guess whatever I choose, I'll always long for what have been.

Poetry is great as concise expression of human experience and imagination. My problem will be which to carry...