Trad Books

[Dave Bulla]

In no particular order:

These first ones are for pure reading pleasure, just good stories.

Come November

Best of Traditional Bowhunter

Bows on the Little Delta

Longbows in the far North

Longbw Country

Hunting the Osage Bow

A Thousand Campfires

Informational, technical and how to catagory would be:

Hunting the Osage Bow

Come November

Traditional Bowhunters Handbook

Become the Arrow

Instinctive shooting

Stalking and Stillhunting

Traditional Bowyers Bible (the whole set)

Instinctive Archery Insights

I put both Hunting the Osage Bow and Come November in both catagories as they are both very informative as "how to's" AND they are both just a great read.

[Paul Mattson]

Shooting the Sitckbow   I have not had the chance to read it yet, but it has been some good reviews.

http://www.shootingthestickbow.com

[The Baron]

I'm very new to this myself (bought my first longbow in May).  The first book I bought was "Traditional Bowhunter's Handbook" by TJ Conrads.  I learned a lot from it and would recommend it for a fellow newbie.

[Ossining]

This one may not have pointers but is a great book to enjoy especially for hunters
"Coyote Soul, Raven Heart - Meditations of a hunter-wanderer" but Reg Darling....
Godd read

[JEFF B]

traditional archery by sam fadala
instinctive shooting vol one ane two by fred asbell
longbows in the far north. by e.donnall thomas jr
bow hunting pressured whitetails by john eberhart and chris eberhart.
these are all good books to read.  

[The Gopher]

I have read all of the above and agree with them all. I especially like all the fred bear books, Little Delta, and the Don Thomas books. I would also add the book about Chester Stevenson called, from the den of the old bowhunter.

Oh yeah, you can't them anymore but Jay Massey's books are second to none.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

The book that Al said.

After that, anything by Don Thomas.

[Rooselk]

Originally posted by The Gopher:
...I would also add the book about Chester Stevenson called, from the den of the old bowhunter.

I agree. I absolutely love that book.

[Falk]

Let me mention a book, which IMHO does not get the reputation it deserves - and can therefore found at that big auction site once in a while for cheap:

SCHUYLER, K.C. (1970): Archery, From Golds to Big Game. – 569 p., >250 figs.; New York (Castle Books).

Published just a little ahead of the compound aera it deals with all the stuff you might want to know about ...