Stories of Survivors
in Fiction and Nonfiction

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett

The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell

Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch

Where Heaven Begins by Rosanne Bittner

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Unit by Terry DeHart

To the White Sea by James Dickey

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Into the Forest by Jean Hegland

Afterlands by Steven Heighton

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

Hater by David Moody

Cold Earth by Sarah Moss

Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories by Melinda Moustakis

The Unknown Shore by Patrick O’Brian

The Revenant by Michael Punke

Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse by James Wesley, Rawles

My Abandonment by Peter Rock

The White Mary by Kira Salak

The Cage by Audrey Schulman

Aftermath by Charles Sheffield

A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute

Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors

The Terror by Dan Simmons

The Ruins by Scott Smith

The Deepest Waters by Dan Walsh

Snowbound by Richard S. Wheeler

No Safe Haven by Kimberley and Kayla R. Woodhouse

Catherwood by Marly Youmans

The Mullah's Storm by Thomas W. Young

Nonfiction

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Wilma Wallis
398.208997 WAL

The Walking Dead. Book One: A Continuing Story of Survival Horror created by Robert Kirkman
741.5 KIR

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev
796.522 BOU

Extremes: Surviving the World's Harshest Environments by Nick Middleton
910.4 MID

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
917.98045 KRA

Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg
918.4 GHI

North to the Night: A Year in the Arctic Ice by Alvah Simon
919.804 SIM

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand.
940.547252 HIL

Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff
940.548 ZUC

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King
964.8 KIN

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