SURVIVAL STORIES

This week's post will highlight survival stories.  Books that fall under the survival fiction genre are consist of works where the main character(s) are trying to survive with little or nothing.  Some of these will follow a character that has gotten lost or hurt in a natural environment setting, and he/she will need to survive until rescue arrives.  Others will follow characters that live in a society that has collapsed for failed them.

Give one of these books a try today!

Children's Fiction

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse
• Abel's Island by William Steig
• The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare
• Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry

Young Adult Fiction

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The 100 by Kass Morgan
• The City of Ember by Jeanne Du PuPrau
• The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner
• Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
• Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Adult Fiction

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• The Odyssey by Homer
• Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour
• The Stand by Stephen King
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
• The Children of Men by P.D. James
• The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel

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