Survival

Fiction or non-fiction book focusing on a person or group of people who must brave the elements, natural disasters, weather or other circumstances in order to survive. A theme common when people are shipwrecked or survive plane crashes. Survival can also be in books where society has crumbled or deteriorated and people must survive the changed world in isolated groups.

New Releases Tagged "Survival"

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Crafting for Sinners
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Unveiling
Outside
Brood
The Vanishing of Lake Peigneur: A Graphic Novel Based on a True Story
Rainforest
Heartwood
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Isola
Such Quiet Girls
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Gray After Dark
Dating After the End of the World
One Perfect Couple
Dead of Winter
My Next Breath
The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Hostage
Tilt
These Silent Woods
The Oligarch's Daughter
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Best Books about Surviving Cancer
46 books — 42 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandEndurance by Alfred LansingInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Best True Survival Stories
417 books — 541 voters

The Martian by Andy WeirThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsRoom by Emma DonoghueUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandNight by Elie Wiesel
ATY 2020 - Books About Survival
202 books — 69 voters
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovLean In by Sheryl SandbergWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauNice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office by Lois P. FrankelQuantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1 by Kenneth Schmitt
Inspiring Books For All Ages
2,633 books — 1,392 voters

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeHatchet by Gary PaulsenElderberries by Alicia BayerBy the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Best How To Survive Books
84 books — 41 voters
One Second After by William R. ForstchenSwan Song by Robert McCammonThe Road by Cormac McCarthyAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankOn the Beach by Nevil Shute
Nuclear Apocalypse
70 books — 175 voters

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
The Martian
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Lord of the Flies
Life of Pi
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into the Wild
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
The Road
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)

Mahatma Gandhi
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi

Ransom Riggs
To have endured horrors, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that honorable and brave— that was magical.
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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