If there’s one thing we love, it’s survival stories—whether that be surviving post-apocalyptic zombies or surviving the elements on a wilderness adventure gone awry. There’s something really compelling about the human will to survive against insane obstacles. It’s especially nice to experience this ultimate sense of danger from the safety of my couch where we can confidently say “Oh, we’d definitely survive this!” (editor’s note: we would definitely not survive. We would die immediately.) If you’re in the mood for some human vs. nature/supernature/twisted science, check out a few of our favs!
If you haven’t read this yet, get the heck to it! We might be stretching it a bit with the survival category, but Isobel and Rook are certainly battling to survive against the ancient power of the faerie courts who won’t allow them to be together.
This historic novel told in journal entries is the ULTIMATE survival story! Follow along as Clara's fight for suffrage turns into one of survival when her crew’s Antarctic expedition ship gets stuck and they're marooned on ice one hundred miles from the shore of the continent.
This twisty, icy thriller also involves a remote cabin, but this time the protagonist, Britt, gets taken prisoner by the cabin’s occupants. It’s a race against time as Britt tries to stay alive long enough to be found, which seems more and more impossible as she uncovers evidence of murders.
Zorie's way-too-ordinary life is driven off the beaten path when she’s abandoned in the wilderness with her worst adversary—the boy who broke her heart.
This thrilling survival tale follows a teen girl who must lead her friends across the country to the safety of her estranged father’s survivalist compound after a mass power failure leaves the country in chaos.
The Queen’s Gambit meets The Hunger Games in this harrowing novel about a teen girl whose abusive father teaches her the finer points of chess and hunting, all for his own sinister ends…drawn from the author’s own experiences. This one will keep you on the edge of your seat, page after page!