Best Survival Stories

Description
Stories of survival after or during various calamities.
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Watership Down
by Richard Adams
25,412 members
473 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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2
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
50,799 members
744 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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3
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
44,260 members
1,013 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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4
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
31,511 members
505 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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5
The Martian
by Andy Weir
18,833 members
1,251 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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6
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
18,355 members
583 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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7
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
18,301 members
450 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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8
The Incredible Journey
by Sheila Burnford
5,945 members
72 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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9
Catching Fire
by Suzanne Collins
50,736 members
1,804 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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10
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
12,114 members
790 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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11
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
9,586 members
643 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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12
The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham
7,622 members
209 reviews
4
4 Members
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13
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi
6,357 members
305 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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15
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
66,333 members
3,495 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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16
Night
by Elie Wiesel
28,228 members
580 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
by Scott O'Dell
18,712 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
15,823 members
723 reviews
4
3 Members
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Blindness
by José Saramago
13,322 members
397 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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20
My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
12,388 members
147 reviews
4
3 Members
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21
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
8,843 members
419 reviews
4
3 Members
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22
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
8,480 members
241 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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23
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger
6,271 members
95 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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24
Parable of the Talents
by Octavia E. Butler
3,738 members
96 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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25
The Twelve
by Justin Cronin
3,662 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
2,429 members
65 reviews
4
3 Members
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27
The Plague Dogs
by Richard Adams
2,224 members
40 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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28
Eifelheim
by Michael Flynn
1,124 members
68 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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29
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
35,227 members
1,410 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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30
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
25,715 members
328 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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31
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
17,234 members
539 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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32
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
15,287 members
974 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
14,343 members
318 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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34
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
12,018 members
314 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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35
Dreamcatcher
by Stephen King
9,912 members
93 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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36
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Stephen King
9,492 members
157 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Explanations
sturlington: Lost in the woods.
37
Survivor
by Chuck Palahniuk
8,797 members
96 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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38
Julie of the Wolves
by Jean Craighead George
7,824 members
119 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Wool
by Hugh Howey
6,925 members
386 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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40
The Girl With All the Gifts
by M. R. Carey
5,482 members
399 reviews
4
2 Members
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41
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
5,193 members
354 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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42
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
3,710 members
198 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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43
Lilith's Brood
by Octavia E. Butler
2,630 members
59 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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44
Deliverance
by James Dickey
2,624 members
58 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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45
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
by Esther Hautzig
2,129 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
1,384 members
50 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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47
World Made By Hand
by James Howard Kunstler
989 members
56 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
DeltaQueen50, sturlington
48
The Reapers Are the Angels
by Alden Bell
967 members
115 reviews
3.9
2 Members
DeltaQueen50, sturlington
49
Walkabout
by James Vance Marshall
802 members
15 reviews
½ 3.3
2 Members
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50
The End We Start From
by Megan Hunter
448 members
45 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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51
Thin Air
by Michelle Paver
318 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
44,057 members
688 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
54
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
41,943 members
1,055 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
12,579 members
597 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
dara85
56
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
by Lisa See
11,346 members
444 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
57
The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
9,074 members
90 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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58
The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H. G. Wells
7,434 members
173 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
59
The Year of the Flood
by Margaret Atwood
7,422 members
362 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
60
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
5,278 members
128 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
inge87
61
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson
5,264 members
284 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
62
Nation
by Terry Pratchett
5,233 members
244 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
63
Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank
5,051 members
145 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
64
Gateway
by Frederik Pohl
4,725 members
102 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
65
The Postman
by David Brin
4,227 members
93 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
66
Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by Erik Larson
4,187 members
138 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
67
MaddAddam
by Margaret Atwood
3,636 members
153 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
68
Bird Box
by Josh Malerman
3,391 members
255 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
69
The Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker
3,367 members
337 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
70
A Night to Remember
by Walter Lord
3,078 members
64 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
71
Tunnel in the Sky
by Robert A. Heinlein
2,909 members
43 reviews
3.8
Member
timspalding
72
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
2,694 members
71 reviews
4.2
Member
dara85
73
The Brief History of the Dead
by Kevin Brockmeier
2,585 members
178 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
74
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
2,417 members
184 reviews
4.2
Member
DeltaQueen50
75
Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
2,344 members
131 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
76
The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
2,262 members
136 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
77
Severance
by Ling Ma
2,227 members
97 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
78
Lexicon
by Max Barry
2,200 members
141 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
79
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
by Edith Hahn Beer
2,024 members
58 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
80
The Cabin at the End of the World
by Paul Tremblay
1,950 members
101 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
81
The Revenant
by Michael Punke
1,849 members
67 reviews
3.8
Member
DeltaQueen50
82
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
by Kate Wilhelm
1,820 members
68 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
83
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Aron Ralston
1,695 members
46 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
84
Into the Forest
by Jean Hegland
1,556 members
49 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
85
The North Water
by Ian McGuire
1,430 members
98 reviews
4
Member
DeltaQueen50
86
The Lifeboat
by Charlotte Rogan
1,421 members
116 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
87
The Last Town on Earth
by Thomas Mullen
1,297 members
58 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
DeltaQueen50
88
Devolution
by Max Brooks
1,209 members
60 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
89
Heart of the Comet
by Gregory Benford
1,205 members
7 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
90
The Wild Shore
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,133 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
aulsmith
91
The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
1,125 members
53 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
92
Yellow Star
by Jennifer Roy
993 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
968 members
44 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
94
A Children's Bible
by Lydia Millet
931 members
46 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
95
Icerigger
by Alan Dean Foster
921 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
96
The Children's Hospital
by Chris Adrian
909 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
97
The Shrinking Man
by Richard Matheson
859 members
36 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
98
Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole
by Jerri Nielson
804 members
17 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
99
The Three
by Sarah Lotz
793 members
48 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
sturlington
100
Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope
by Don Van Ryn
731 members
34 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85