I like reading fiction books about survival. For example:
Robinson Crusoe,
Swiss Family Robinson,
My Side of the Mountain,
Island of the Blue Dolphins, etc...
Been tag-surfing and have found a few books but not many (maybe I'm looking at the wrong sort of tags?). Ive found quite a few YA titles, nothing wrong with that but I'm interested in Adult fiction as well. Sort of goes along with the Post-Apocalyptic kick Ive been on lately... ^_^
Any recommendations?
The Cay is young adult, but well worth the read.
A favorite book as a teen was
Tunnel In The Sky by Robert Heinlein. It takes place in the future and involves a final exam in a survival course: any planet, any climate, and any terrain. It can be enjoyed as an adult - at least by those of us who suffer from arrested development.
Not sure if this is exactly the kind of thing you're looking for, but
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a survival thriller (for adults) about a girl alone in the woods. Very suspenseful.
Hatchet is for YA, but a similar theme.
Did you try a tagmash of "survival" and "fiction"?
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami and
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins are both about survival. In both kids are pitted against each other in a government endorsed battle to the death.
The Stand by Stephen King is a post-apocalyptic survival novel, as is
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
City of Thieves by David Benioff is about 2 Russians trying to survive an interesting mission in WWII.
If you are into Sci-Fi you might try :
One second after by William R. Forstchen
Fairly standard story about the collapse of the U.S. after an attack by an E.M.P. (electrical magnetic pulse weapon.
Lucifers Hammer by larry Niven
The gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam. It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization. But for the terrified men and women chance had saved, it was also the dawn of a new struggle for survival--a struggle more dangerous and challenging than any they had ever known.
Greybeard by Brain Aldiss
This is about a world where women can no longer have children. What would the world be like in 30 or 40 years.
If you prefer somthing historical;
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
This is the account of the Whale Ship Essex. This ship was actually sunk by a whale and was the inspiration for Melvilles "Moby Dick". It tells of the ships 20 survivors epic voyage in open whaleboats to Chile. Of which only 8 survived the 93 day voyage.
Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crewby Alex Kershaw
This is the story of the USS Tang who in her five war patrols sank more enemy ships and rescued more airmen than any other allied ship at that time.
During her final 2 night battle (on her 5th patrol) with two convoys, sank 5 more ships before she was struck and sunk by a defective torpedo. Of the crew of ninety only 9 survived. 4 that were blow off the bridge, and 5 who made the not only historic but heroic accent from a depth of 180 ft.
The story of the battle and the escape read like a Hollywood movie script. But all true. The second part of the book deals with their capture and torture in the Japanese interrogation camp know as the "torture Farm"
The last few chapters deal with their return and not always a happy ending.
Alex Kershaw has wrote an excellent and readable history of a little known and regretfully almost forgotten part of the war in the Pacific.
Mensagem editada pelo seu autor, Jun 20, 2009, 12:57pm.
The tagmash "fiction, shipwrecks" throws up quite a lot of good stuff. See:
http://www.librarything.com/tag/fiction,...One of the most chilling survival stories I've read in recent years is Patrick O'Brian's second novel,
The Unknown Shore, which was based on the wreck of the
Wager during Anson's voyage round the world.
Thanks all.. I was just doing a tagmash of Survival, Fiction.
I didn't think to use shipwreck or other disaster types along with fiction to get what I was looking for.
I found quite a few books that Ive wishlisted!
World War Z is about survival. It's the oral accounts of different people about their experiences of the Zombie Apocalypse. In the same note,
The Zombie Survival Guide is a fictional guide on how to protect yourself from zombies.
Survival fiction was one of my favorite genres growing up! I've not read any in quite some time, so it's nice to see recommendations here. I'd give some of my own, but most have already been mentioned.
I wrote
Surviving the Fog from inspiration about surviving the kind of situations in the books that you have named. I see that someone has mentioned
Tunnel in the Sky. It is one of my all time favorite books. Another book that you might like is
Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. It is somewhat like
Swiss Family Robinson. It has a surprise at the end that is unexpected.
Alive by Piers Paul Read is not technically fiction, but I would definitely recommend it anyway.
#16 -
Into The Wild? Isn't that an anti-survival book?Ha! I guess you have a point.
2 YA books come to mind. And that's because I own them.
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (but I see someone has already sugested that). And
North by Donna Jo Napoli. I've read Hunger Games and it's great. But I haven't read North. It is about a boy that gets stranded in the northern wilderness.
Also a YA book, but a great read
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
I also liked her
My Side of the MountainSimilar in theme to
The Hunger Games is
Surviving Antarctica :Reality TV 2083. I've recommended it before on other threads. My non-reader husband, a reality TV junkie, liked it.
I'm trying to think of another title...it is a sci-fi book, in which aliens abduct humans and other aliens and dump them all on another planet, where they have to learn to get along and survive. I think it was a series, and maybe "Freedom" was in the title??
#20That's it! thanks...it's been bugging me for a while that I couldn't remember the title.
I enjoyed
Last of the breed. Very different from his usual westerns. It is not focusing on the survival, but it plays a big part in the story.
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