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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.26 avg rating — 566,530 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 996,211 ratings
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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4.46 avg rating — 164,294 ratings
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,189,811 ratings
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 118,582 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 — 64,469 ratings
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 81,879 ratings
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Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
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4.15 avg rating — 20,787 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,360,637 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 — 26,584 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 118,898 ratings
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Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
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4.07 avg rating — 12,226 ratings
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Papillon
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4.23 avg rating — 75,568 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,179,578 ratings
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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3.85 avg rating — 23,645 ratings
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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4.33 avg rating — 23,529 ratings
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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4.34 avg rating — 100,693 ratings
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
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4.24 avg rating — 21,841 ratings
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Kon-Tiki
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4.16 avg rating — 25,049 ratings
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
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3.94 avg rating — 14,445 ratings
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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
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4.06 avg rating — 13,096 ratings
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
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3.87 avg rating — 46,819 ratings
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The Children's Blizzard
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3.89 avg rating — 13,093 ratings
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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
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4.34 avg rating — 15,627 ratings
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 460,118 ratings
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Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
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3.98 avg rating — 12,295 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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4.48 avg rating — 355,794 ratings
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
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4.30 avg rating — 5,692 ratings
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
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4.44 avg rating — 47,429 ratings
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Survive the Savage Sea
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4.11 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
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Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival
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4.03 avg rating — 9,626 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.10 avg rating — 28,816 ratings
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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4.01 avg rating — 71,934 ratings
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
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4.09 avg rating — 10,590 ratings
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Escape from a Siberian Labour Camp and His 3-Year Trek to Freedom
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4.09 avg rating — 2,750 ratings
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South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance
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4.20 avg rating — 11,301 ratings
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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4.13 avg rating — 161,193 ratings
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North to the Night : A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic
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4.27 avg rating — 1,421 ratings
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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4.30 avg rating — 12,618 ratings
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Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13
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4.39 avg rating — 10,266 ratings
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The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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4.34 avg rating — 21,748 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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4.21 avg rating — 77,188 ratings
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4,000 Days: My Life and Survival in a Bangkok Prison
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4.13 avg rating — 6,369 ratings
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
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4.36 avg rating — 53,996 ratings
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
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3.98 avg rating — 26,229 ratings
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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
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3.99 avg rating — 18,315 ratings
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Sufferings in Africa: The Incredible True Story of a Shipwreck, Enslavement, and Survival on the Sahara
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4.07 avg rating — 550 ratings
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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3.88 avg rating — 349,496 ratings
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Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival
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3.66 avg rating — 6,536 ratings
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Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters
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3.88 avg rating — 1,644 ratings
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Four Against the Wilderness: The True Story of a Father & His Three Teenage Children Shipwrecked Off the Coast of Alaska in Winter
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4.25 avg rating — 158 ratings
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
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4.38 avg rating — 27,737 ratings
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The Blood Red Sea
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4.57 avg rating — 46 ratings
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117 Days Adrift
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4.07 avg rating — 301 ratings
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Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure
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4.32 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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3.90 avg rating — 219,536 ratings
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Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic
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4.31 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
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4.20 avg rating — 3,243 ratings
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At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane
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4.18 avg rating — 527 ratings
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
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4.25 avg rating — 80,469 ratings
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Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors – Five Centuries of Moral Dilemmas and Cultural Impact
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3.94 avg rating — 332 ratings
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Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm
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3.99 avg rating — 108 ratings
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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4.29 avg rating — 17,663 ratings
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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
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4.18 avg rating — 5,019 ratings
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Castaway
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3.76 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Overboard!: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
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4.28 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
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33 Men
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3.87 avg rating — 1,746 ratings
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Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail
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4.06 avg rating — 24,647 ratings
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Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle For Survival at the South Pole
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3.99 avg rating — 3,906 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.05 avg rating — 72,178 ratings
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Sinking of the Eastland
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4.06 avg rating — 396 ratings
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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4.07 avg rating — 865,915 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 — 622,143 ratings
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Young Men and Fire
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4.03 avg rating — 7,285 ratings
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Lost
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4.14 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
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3.61 avg rating — 8,185 ratings
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Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea
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4.33 avg rating — 9,566 ratings
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Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
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3.88 avg rating — 5,081 ratings
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Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
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4.08 avg rating — 1,949 ratings
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Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
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4.27 avg rating — 11,687 ratings
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An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
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4.50 avg rating — 2,409 ratings
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A House in the Sky
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4.28 avg rating — 72,292 ratings
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Dancing with Death: An Inspiring Real-Life Story of Epic Travel Adventure
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4.12 avg rating — 220 ratings
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
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4.40 avg rating — 2,035 ratings
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The Man Who Sank Titanic: The Troubled Life of Quartermaster Robert Hichens
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3.57 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
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3.97 avg rating — 2,641 ratings
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Firehouse
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4.06 avg rating — 1,626 ratings
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Burnt
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4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
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4.11 avg rating — 3,840 ratings
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The Journals of Lewis and Clark
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4.12 avg rating — 5,405 ratings
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
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4.25 avg rating — 38,342 ratings
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And I Alone Survived
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4.11 avg rating — 306 ratings
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How to Survive the Titanic: or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
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3.48 avg rating — 840 ratings
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The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory
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4.17 avg rating — 391 ratings
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
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3.95 avg rating — 5,353 ratings
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The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
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3.63 avg rating — 1,859 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 61,671 ratings
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When I Fell From the Sky
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3.74 avg rating — 3,994 ratings
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The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
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4.54 avg rating — 5,639 ratings
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Wreck of the Medusa: The Tragic Story of the Death Raft
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3.87 avg rating — 475 ratings
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