The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
2010
Books with the “Survival” trope
Characters fight to stay alive in deadly conditions where every find and every choice counts.
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Plot twists · Survival
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
2008
Misery
Stephen King
1987
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons
2000
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
1936
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
2015
The Warded Man
Peter V. Brett
2008
Gateway
Frederik Pohl
1977
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
2021
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
2006
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
2014
The Maze Runner
James Dashner
2009
Blindness
José Saramago
1995
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
1954
The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
2009
The Martian
Andy Weir
2011
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
1992
All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
2004
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
1954
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
2001
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
2003
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
1940
Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally
1982
World Without End
Ken Follett
2007
Azincourt
Bernard Cornwell
2008
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
1719
The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne
1875
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
1952
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
1903
The Terror
Dan Simmons
2007
The Revenant
Michael Punke
2002
The Wager
David Grann
2023
The Lost City of Z
David Grann
2009
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
1937
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
1979
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Holly Black
2013
The Serpent and the Wings of Night
Carissa Broadbent
2022
Angelfall
Susan Ee
2011
Certain Dark Things
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
2016
The City of Brass
S. A. Chakraborty
2017
A Deadly Education
Naomi Novik
2020
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
2014
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
2015
Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein
2012
Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
2016
The Long Ships
Frans G. Bengtsson
1941
The Sea-Wolf
Jack London
1904
Bird Box
Josh Malerman
2014
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
2017
The Decagon House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
1987
Fourth Wing
Rebecca Yarros
2023
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
2017
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
1969
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
2015
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
1993
Wool
Hugh Howey
2011
The Windup Girl
Paolo Bacigalupi
2009
The 5th Wave
Rick Yancey
2013
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
1934
The Wolf Den
Elodie Harper
2021
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
1985
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing
1959
The Arctic Fury
Greer Macallister
2020
A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead
2011
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
1929
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
1961
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
2014
The Troop
Nick Cutter
2014
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones
2021
Clown in a Cornfield
Adam Cesare
2020
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix
2020
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due
2023
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
2018
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
2007
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
1951
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
1955
Earth Abides
George R. Stewart
1949
The Postman
David Brin
1985
The Girl with All the Gifts
M. R. Carey
2014
Severance
Ling Ma
2018
The Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson
2020
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch
2016
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
2020
Final Girls
Riley Sager
2017
The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix
2021
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