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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,352,612 ratings — published 2008
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 1099 times as survival)
avg rating 3.80 — 468,702 ratings — published 1987
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 975 times as survival)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,372,245 ratings — published 2009
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 859 times as survival)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,394,987 ratings — published 2011
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 786 times as survival)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,910,016 ratings — published 2010
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 652 times as survival)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,337,656 ratings — published 1954
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 595,230 ratings — published 1997
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 538 times as survival)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,793,670 ratings — published 2001
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 493 times as survival)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,231,428 ratings — published 1996
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 478 times as survival)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,022,701 ratings — published 2010
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 456 times as survival)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,099,518 ratings — published 2006
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 447 times as survival)
avg rating 3.88 — 356,239 ratings — published 1960
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 436 times as survival)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,759,119 ratings — published 2009
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 398 times as survival)
avg rating 4.47 — 182,980 ratings — published 1959
Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)
by (shelved 364 times as survival)
avg rating 3.89 — 135,325 ratings — published 2006
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as survival)
avg rating 4.14 — 83,676 ratings — published 1974
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as survival)
avg rating 4.17 — 124,273 ratings — published 2000
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 325 times as survival)
avg rating 4.11 — 88,623 ratings — published 1959
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as survival)
avg rating 4.06 — 655,333 ratings — published 2014
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 277 times as survival)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,933,498 ratings — published 2021
SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as survival)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,748 ratings — published 1986
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 486,593 ratings — published 2013
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 254 times as survival)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,508,487 ratings — published 2011
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as survival)
avg rating 4.16 — 246,450 ratings — published 2023
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 241 times as survival)
avg rating 3.68 — 340,796 ratings — published 1719
Brian's Winter (Brian's Saga, #3)
by (shelved 237 times as survival)
avg rating 4.05 — 36,548 ratings — published 1996
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 233 times as survival)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,386,009 ratings — published 2018
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 231 times as survival)
avg rating 4.08 — 851,062 ratings — published 2010
On the Island (On the Island, #1)
by (shelved 227 times as survival)
avg rating 4.10 — 87,908 ratings — published 2011
The Scorch Trials (The Maze Runner, #2)
by (shelved 223 times as survival)
avg rating 3.90 — 671,320 ratings — published 2010
Unwind (Unwind, #1)
by (shelved 219 times as survival)
avg rating 4.17 — 256,588 ratings — published 2007
Julie of the Wolves (Julie of the Wolves, #1)
by (shelved 218 times as survival)
avg rating 3.84 — 62,129 ratings — published 1972
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as survival)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,661 ratings — published 1986
Alone (Alone #1)
by (shelved 216 times as survival)
avg rating 4.12 — 24,818 ratings — published 2021
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as survival)
avg rating 4.23 — 67,266 ratings — published 1988
The River (Brian's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 207 times as survival)
avg rating 3.83 — 34,451 ratings — published 1991
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 490,250 ratings — published 1903
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as survival)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,411,477 ratings — published 2012
Ashfall (Ashfall, #1)
by (shelved 195 times as survival)
avg rating 3.99 — 26,995 ratings — published 2011
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as survival)
avg rating 4.02 — 584,775 ratings — published 2006
Dry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 191 times as survival)
avg rating 4.00 — 58,831 ratings — published 2018
I Am Still Alive (ebook)
by (shelved 184 times as survival)
avg rating 3.84 — 14,000 ratings — published 2018
Be Not Far from Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as survival)
avg rating 3.80 — 11,200 ratings — published 2020
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as survival)
avg rating 4.36 — 290,099 ratings — published 2011
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as survival)
avg rating 4.38 — 28,131 ratings — published 2006
Beauty Queens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as survival)
avg rating 3.62 — 55,466 ratings — published 2011
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 179 times as survival)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,822,833 ratings — published 2018
438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as survival)
avg rating 4.34 — 17,834 ratings — published 2015
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as survival)
avg rating 4.24 — 45,085 ratings — published 2009
The Raft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as survival)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,944 ratings — published 2012
“What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.”
― The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
― The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
“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. And maybe it’s treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst. Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.”
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