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"

Burn
Worst Case Scenario
Under the Surface
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend
Ash's Cabin
The Unlikely Pair (Unlikely Dilemmas, #2)
Only One Survives
The Book of Elsewhere
49 Miles Alone
It Came from the Trees
One Perfect Couple
All the Little Raindrops
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Stranded
The Grace Year
Gray After Dark
Worst Case Scenario
The Stranger in the Lifeboat
Drowning
Savaged
Burn
The Yacht
Still See You Everywhere (Frankie Elkin, #3)
The Hike
These Silent Woods
A Night to Remember by Walter LordTitanic by Don  LynchThe Night Lives On by Walter LordThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. BallardVoyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson White
Best Titanic Books
163 books — 214 voters
Tagged by Joseph M. ChironI found a dead girl's diary by straydog1980The Lucienne Twins by Leo  PetracciPandora by Joshua GrantSwan Song by Robert McCammon
Survival Horror Books
41 books — 75 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaThe Right To The Truth by I.C. PapachristosThe Forever Night Stand by Bena RobertsThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Upside of Cancer by Christopher   Foster
Best Books about Surviving Cancer
46 books — 44 voters
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn MuirCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuThe Luminous Dead by Caitlin  StarlingHell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph WhiteWilder Girls by Rory Power
Queer Horror
564 books — 294 voters

Unbroken by Laura HillenbrandEscape From Davao by John D. LukacsWith the Old Breed by Eugene B. SledgeHelmet for My Pillow by Robert LeckieThe Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
World War II in the Pacific
157 books — 152 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
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Into the Wild
The Road
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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Douglas Adams
What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer. ...more
Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts

Rick Yancey
We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't. ...more
Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

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