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"

The Heirs
Backstabbers
Obstetrix
Whisper Creek
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Safari Murder Party
Hungered
Decomposition Book
Ode to the Half-Broken
Palaces of the Crow
Wombat Waiting
Styx and Stones
Deathball (Deathball #1)
Heartwood
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Her Last Breath
Isola
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Such Quiet Girls
Gray After Dark
What We Did to Survive
Run on Red
Hooded (Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales #3)
The Last to Drown
One Perfect Couple
The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Eruption
Swept Away
TaoTuning by Adrian EmeryThe Memoirs of Dr. Sex by Andrew M. BarclaySocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovBlotch in the Mirror by Stuart E. SchadtLean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Inspiring Books For All Ages
2,770 books — 1,774 voters
Walking Beside the Edge by Lori Caputo-HartfordThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe China Study by T. Colin CampbellUNDERSTANDING - The Doctor Saved My Life Twice by J.K.ChuaEat Move Sleep by Tom Rath
Best Books about Preventing Cancer
24 books — 24 voters

Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls WilderRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeElderberries by Alicia BayerHatchet by Gary PaulsenBy the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Best How To Survive Books
85 books — 44 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Vicarious Thrills
425 books — 455 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWatership Down by Richard  AdamsThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Long Journey on Foot
311 books — 184 voters
Into Thin Air by Jon KrakauerIsaac's Storm by Erik LarsonIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickA Night to Remember by Walter LordAlive by Piers Paul Read
Non-fiction Disaster Books
330 books — 333 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
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Life of Pi
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)

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi

William Goldman
We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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