Survival books
Books where staying alive is the plot: stranded, hunted or pushed to the edge by war and disaster. Andy Weir's The Martian solves survival one problem at a time, Primo Levi's If This Is a Man recounts Auschwitz, and Percival Everett's James follows an escape along the Mississippi. Suzanne Collins's Sunrise on the Reaping returns to the arena of the Hunger Games.
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- 1Maus
9.09.0 / 10 - 2Project Hail Mary
9.09.0 / 10 - 3The Martian
8.88.8 / 10 - 4James
8.78.7 / 10 - 5Dungeon Crawler Carl
8.78.7 / 10 - 6Ghostwater
8.68.6 / 10 - 7The Sunlit Man
8.58.5 / 10 - 8If This Is a Man
8.48.4 / 10 - 9Ender's Shadow
8.48.4 / 10 - 10First They Killed My Father
8.48.4 / 10 - 11The Stand
8.48.4 / 10 - 12Man's Search for Meaning
8.48.4 / 10 - 13The Great Alone
8.38.3 / 10 - 14The Left Hand of Darkness
8.38.3 / 10 - 15The Hunger Games
8.38.3 / 10 - 16Night
8.38.3 / 10 - 17Papillon
8.38.3 / 10 - 18Jurassic Park
8.38.3 / 10 - 19Parable of the Sower
8.38.3 / 10 - 20Misery
8.28.2 / 10 - 21Into Thin Air
8.28.2 / 10 - 22The Underground Railroad
8.28.2 / 10 - 23King Rat
8.28.2 / 10 - 24Unbroken
8.28.2 / 10 - 25Station Eleven
8.18.1 / 10 - 26Watership Down
8.18.1 / 10 - 27The Road
8.18.1 / 10 - 28Gone with the Wind
8.18.1 / 10 - 29La Belle Sauvage
8.18.1 / 10 - 30A Deadly Education
8.08.0 / 10