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"

As You Wake, Break the Shell
The Jewel of Corlivo
Doomsdate
Little Kin
Gray After Dark
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
The Last to Drown
Heartwood
Run for Your Life
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Whalefall
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Such Quiet Girls
Isola
Her Last Breath
Run on Red
God's Country (Cork O'Connor, #21 )
Hungered
What We Did to Survive
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
Yol
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)
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
77 books — 180 voters
Transcendence by Shay SavageIce Planet Barbarians by Ruby DixonThe Golden Dynasty by Kristen AshleyRuth's Bonded by V.C. LancasterGron's Fated by V.C. Lancaster
Prehistoric Romances
64 books — 189 voters

The Stand by Stephen  King1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
This Is the End...
1,020 books — 1,608 voters
Hatchet by Gary PaulsenMy Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead GeorgeRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Wilderness Survival Books
199 books — 240 voters



Carl Sagan
“ Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. ”
― Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“ The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. ...more ”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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