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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
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3.78 avg rating — 331,744 ratings
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
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4.16 avg rating — 636,350 ratings
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Lessons in Chemistry
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4.28 avg rating — 1,878,738 ratings
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The Martian
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4.42 avg rating — 1,362,755 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,303,871 ratings
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,781,120 ratings
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Project Hail Mary
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4.51 avg rating — 1,783,905 ratings
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Station Eleven
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4.06 avg rating — 641,491 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 1,014,413 ratings
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The Alchemist
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3.92 avg rating — 3,716,142 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,960,049 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,801,192 ratings
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Demon Copperhead
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4.46 avg rating — 883,105 ratings
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A Different Kind of Gone
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4.18 avg rating — 12,285 ratings
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
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3.83 avg rating — 17,778 ratings
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The Bandit Queens
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3.92 avg rating — 48,563 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.22 avg rating — 81,369 ratings
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Room
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4.08 avg rating — 846,851 ratings
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Blood on the Tracks (Sydney Rose Parnell, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 24,689 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
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4.31 avg rating — 2,053,848 ratings
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The Last Lie Told (Finley O’Sullivan, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 28,642 ratings
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The Nightingale
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4.65 avg rating — 2,331,454 ratings
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Lost Little Angels (Detective Eve Bennet #2)
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4.53 avg rating — 213 ratings
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She Rides Shotgun
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4.04 avg rating — 10,582 ratings
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Finding Gobi: The True Story of a Little Dog and an Incredible Journey
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4.15 avg rating — 14,448 ratings
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Toxic People Survival Guide: How to Deal with Difficult, Negative, or Manipulative People, Handle Narcissists and Disarm Sociopaths
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3.88 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Craig & Fred: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other
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4.40 avg rating — 6,098 ratings
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Allergic To Life: My Battle for Survival, Courage, and Hope
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4.46 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Brain Tumors: Leaving the Garden of Eden--A Survival Guide to Diagnosis, Learning the Basics, Getting Organized, and Finding Your Medical Team
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Dune (Dune, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,691,870 ratings
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Fibromyalgia & Chronic Myofascial Pain Syndrome: A Survival Manual
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4.24 avg rating — 441 ratings
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The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival
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3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Sinus Survival: The Holistic Medical Treatment for Allergies, Asthma, Bronchitis, Colds, and Sinusitis
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3.84 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 1,209,746 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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4.14 avg rating — 9,277 ratings
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Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
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4.40 avg rating — 224,085 ratings
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The Night Shift
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3.89 avg rating — 89,317 ratings
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Five Survive
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4.08 avg rating — 308,418 ratings
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Rock Paper Scissors
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3.87 avg rating — 807,686 ratings
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Reckless Girls
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3.54 avg rating — 163,766 ratings
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It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 4,794,618 ratings
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Survive the Night
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3.51 avg rating — 198,175 ratings
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Killers of a Certain Age (Killers of a Certain Age, #1)
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3.85 avg rating — 126,217 ratings
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The Hate You Give
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4.45 avg rating — 1,037,864 ratings
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Dear Martin (Dear Martin, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 86,907 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 10,208,608 ratings
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.13 avg rating — 3,845,182 ratings
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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4.36 avg rating — 4,299,601 ratings
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
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3.99 avg rating — 1,280,563 ratings
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Solito
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4.47 avg rating — 86,839 ratings
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Behind Closed Doors
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3.96 avg rating — 792,351 ratings
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.47 avg rating — 188,960 ratings
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
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4.33 avg rating — 44,676 ratings
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They Called Us Enemy
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4.42 avg rating — 57,090 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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4.16 avg rating — 998,459 ratings
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
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4.23 avg rating — 66,384 ratings
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Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea
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3.77 avg rating — 6,280 ratings
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
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4.37 avg rating — 27,694 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 151,630 ratings
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The Final Girl Support Group
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3.49 avg rating — 196,938 ratings
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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both
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4.25 avg rating — 20,411 ratings
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The Escape Room
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3.81 avg rating — 47,457 ratings
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Survival? That is a word that has a lot of conotations to it, even the definition lists a couple of different meanings. A couple of weeks ago, I started REALLY going through my to-read list, all 300+ books. It didn't take long to notice that a lot of the books I had added in 2020 were stories about bleak, dystopian, futures with ragtag bands of humans roaming the earth trying to survive. Needless to say, a worldwide pandemic that killed millions had a profound effect on my reading preferances back then. Prior to 2020, I despised those kinds of stories. Yep, they were the first ones to go.
When it comes to survival stories, I would say I prefer to read stories about the underdog rising from the depths of society to achieve a good life. This would explain my 5star review of Lessons in Chemistry as well as my highly ranked reviews of similar stories.
I added my fave "survival" stories.