Best Survival Stories

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Stories of survival after or during various calamities.
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Watership Down
by Richard Adams
25,038 members
473 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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2
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
49,936 members
749 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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3
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
43,766 members
1,013 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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4
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
30,885 members
508 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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5
The Martian
by Andy Weir
18,330 members
1,252 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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6
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
18,058 members
446 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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7
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
17,770 members
581 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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8
The Incredible Journey
by Sheila Burnford
5,789 members
72 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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9
Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins
49,606 members
1,798 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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10
The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition
by Stephen King
19,907 members
370 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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11
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
11,855 members
786 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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12
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
9,456 members
638 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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13
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham
7,515 members
207 reviews
4
4 Members
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14
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi
6,251 members
304 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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15
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
64,921 members
3,497 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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16
Night
by Elie Wiesel
27,825 members
576 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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17
Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
18,242 members
299 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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18
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
15,600 members
715 reviews
4
3 Members
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19
Blindness
by José Saramago
13,112 members
391 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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20
My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
12,010 members
148 reviews
4
3 Members
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Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
8,755 members
416 reviews
4
3 Members
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Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
8,207 members
239 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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23
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger
6,173 members
93 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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24
Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
3,605 members
96 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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25
The Twelve
by Justin Cronin
3,593 members
168 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: Survival in post-apocalyptic world overrun by vampires.
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
by Piers Paul Read
2,388 members
64 reviews
4
3 Members
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27
The Plague Dogs
by Richard Adams
2,202 members
41 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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28
Eifelheim
by Michael Flynn
1,112 members
68 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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29
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
34,617 members
1,407 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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30
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
23,375 members
323 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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31
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
17,033 members
538 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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32
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
14,922 members
966 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
14,143 members
317 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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34
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
11,805 members
309 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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35
Dreamcatcher
by Stephen King
9,739 members
92 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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36
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Stephen King
9,340 members
154 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: Lost in the woods.
37
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk
8,732 members
96 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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38
Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
7,638 members
121 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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39
Wool
by Hugh Howey
6,700 members
382 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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40
The Girl With All the Gifts
by M. R. Carey
5,383 members
406 reviews
4
2 Members
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41
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
5,057 members
351 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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42
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
3,665 members
195 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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43
Lilith's Brood
by Octavia E. Butler
2,592 members
59 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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44
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,592 members
59 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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45
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
by Esther Hautzig
2,031 members
31 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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46
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by Jim Dwyer
1,366 members
50 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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47
World Made By Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
979 members
57 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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48
The Reapers Are the Angels: A Novel
by Alden Bell
958 members
115 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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49
Walkabout
by James Vance Marshall
787 members
14 reviews
3.2
2 Members
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50
The End We Start From
by Megan Hunter
434 members
42 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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51
Thin Air
by Michelle Paver
313 members
21 reviews
3.9
2 Members
DeltaQueen50, sturlington
52
Lost Canyon
by Nina Revoyr
101 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
DeltaQueen50, sturlington
53
Dune
by Frank Herbert
42,954 members
695 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
54
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
41,388 members
1,051 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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55
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
by Laura Hillenbrand
12,363 members
595 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
dara85
56
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See
11,285 members
443 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
57
The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
8,851 members
90 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
58
The Year of the Flood
by Margaret Atwood
7,333 members
364 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
59
The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H. G. Wells
7,301 members
173 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
60
Nation
by Terry Pratchett
5,186 members
246 reviews
4.1
Member
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61
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson
5,159 members
280 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
62
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
5,141 members
125 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
inge87
63
Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank
4,978 members
144 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
64
Gateway
by Frederik Pohl
4,677 members
101 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
65
The Postman
by David Brin
4,179 members
92 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
66
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by Erik Larson
4,096 members
136 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
67
MaddAddam
by Margaret Atwood
3,567 members
154 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
68
The Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker
3,326 members
336 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
69
Bird Box
by Josh Malerman
3,291 members
257 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
70
A Night to Remember
by Walter Lord
3,008 members
63 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
71
Tunnel in the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein
2,887 members
42 reviews
3.8
Member
timspalding
72
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
2,662 members
70 reviews
4.2
Member
dara85
73
The Brief History of the Dead
by Kevin Brockmeier
2,569 members
177 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
74
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
2,394 members
183 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
DeltaQueen50
75
Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
2,242 members
134 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
76
The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
2,218 members
134 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
77
Lexicon
by Max Barry
2,167 members
141 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
78
Severance
by Ling Ma
2,074 members
94 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
79
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
by Edith Hahn Beer
1,979 members
59 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
80
The Cabin at the End of the World
by Paul Tremblay
1,864 members
100 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
sturlington
81
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
1,792 members
66 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
82
The Revenant
by Michael Punke
1,789 members
67 reviews
3.8
Member
DeltaQueen50
83
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Aron Ralston
1,665 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
84
Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland
1,541 members
49 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
85
The Lifeboat
by Charlotte Rogan
1,410 members
116 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
86
The North Water
by Ian McGuire
1,403 members
99 reviews
4
Member
DeltaQueen50
87
The Last Town on Earth
by Thomas Mullen
1,287 members
58 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
DeltaQueen50
88
Heart of the Comet
by Gregory Benford
1,199 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
89
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
by Max Brooks
1,142 members
58 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
90
The Wild Shore
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,118 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
91
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
1,080 members
53 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
92
Yellow Star
by Jennifer Roy
975 members
46 reviews
4.2
Member
dara85
93
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
by Nando Parrado
931 members
45 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
94
Icerigger
by Alan Dean Foster
908 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
95
The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
903 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
96
A Children's Bible
by Lydia Millet
879 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
97
The Shrinking Man
by Richard Matheson
844 members
36 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
98
Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
by Jerri Nielson
800 members
17 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
99
The Three
by Sarah Lotz
783 members
48 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
sturlington
100
Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope
by Don Van Ryn
720 members
34 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85