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For Conan in particular? The Del Rey collection-- three books, with all of the stories as Howard wrote them, unedited.
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Conan-Cimmerian-Barbarian-Book-ebook/dp/B000FBJE24/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=conan+re+howard&qid=1573181384&s=books&sr=1-2
A year ago I would have said wait, right now though it's probably the best survival game on the market IMO. Yes definitely buy, especially if you're into Conan the barbarian. In fact if you don't know much about Conan (not the movies but actual Conan) I'd recommend some good reading:
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
The Bloody Crown of Conan of Cimmeria
The Conquering Sword of Conan of Cimmeria
These three volumes contain all of the Conan stories written by the original author Robert E. Howard. It is some of the best short fiction ever written. Period. It was very clear when funcom made Age of Conan that they loved this body of work, that game was full of references to it and places from it, that game turned out to be overambitious and never lived up to it's promises but Conan Exiles does, in a lot of ways I think it's the game they wanted to make when making AoC before the investors got involved.
One of the big things it's got over most other survival titles is the depth of the lore, all the different gear sets, the huge amounts of functional decorations for bases that are themselves representative of the numerous races and cultures of the Conan mythos. You can even see some of the DNA of AoC in this game, the way it scatters lore and bosses around, along with unique crafting recipes and explorable sights infuse some of the most compelling bits of MMO gameplay into this title without burdening it with the WoWclone syndrome that more or less killed AoC.
The combat system is hands down best in class in survival games, imagine if Rust/Ark had a baby with Darksouls, full on dodging with armor class effecting how you dodge, half a dozen different sorts of weapons with unique effects combo chaining and upgrade paths, you can alternate between freelook/movement and autolocked for single combat.
The building system is also best in class as far as survival games go, you can build damn near anything, and you can make it look amazing with all sorts of cool decorations, this game is designed to accommodate not just function but aesthetics.
may I interest you in the original pulp?
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
The Bloody Crown of Conan
The Conquering Sword of Conan
I've only read the 1970s Conan comics and they were decent. A little too narration heavy for me for a comic.
you are in luck, if you wanted to start with the original stories the first book in the 3 book set (they are all short story collections) is on sale right now for 3 bucks:
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Conan-Cimmerian-Barbarian-Book-ebook/dp/B000FBJE24/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535997116&sr=8-1&keywords=conan+cimmerian
Del Rey has a trio of books that comprise just about every one of Howard's original Conan stories, plus or minus some trunk stuff. A great deal of care was taken with these to consult Howard experts and use the best available texts, so they're quality.
https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Conan-Cimmerian-Barbarian-Book-ebook/dp/B000FBJE24
Between Del Rey and the Robert E. Howard Foundation, nearly every word Howard ever wrote is either published or in the process of being published. It's a vast undertaking, since the dude wrote so much in the thirty years of his life. Del Rey also has a couple of best of volumes that sample broadly from almost everything he did, so if you like the Conan stuff and want to see what else of his you might like, check those out.
There are also loads of free audiobook versions of varying quality.
Additionally, if you're ever anywhere in the vicinity of Abilene, TX, you're not far from Howard Country. It's worth a trip to Cross Plains to go see the Howard House, now with added storm cellar!
Is this the same collection? You can buy the Kindle and Audiobook versions together for $15 which is pretty good for me now that I've cancelled my Audible subscription.