Best True Survival Stories
174. 
Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
by:
Kevin Maurer
4.35 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 174. 
The Man Who Refused to Die: Teehu Makimare's 2000 Mile Drift in an Open Boat Across the South Seas
by:
Barry Wynne
3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings 
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Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
by:
Wallace Terry
4.28 avg rating — 1,143 ratings 205. 
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Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey
by:
Peter Carlson
4.11 avg rating — 683 ratings 
205. 
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
by:
Mike Dash
4.16 avg rating — 4,252 ratings 
205. 
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
by:
Pete Nelson
3.91 avg rating — 2,048 ratings 205. 
Some True Adventures in the Life of Hugh Glass, a Hunter and Trapper on the Missouri River (1857) 3.38 avg rating — 321 ratings
205. 
Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas
by:
Matt Lewis
4.04 avg rating — 1,990 ratings 205. 
Holocaust Memoirs by a Bergen-Belsen survivor & Classmate of Anne Frank 4.40 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
205. 
Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk
by:
Buddy Levy
4.44 avg rating — 2,805 ratings 205. 
Three Months Under the Snow: The Journal of a Young Inhabitant of the Jura 3.32 avg rating — 19 ratings
219. 
The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race
by:
G. Bruce Knecht
4.15 avg rating — 1,240 ratings 
219. 
See You Tonight and Promise to Be a Good Boy!: War memories
by:
Salo Muller
4.22 avg rating — 139 ratings 
229. 
Muito Longe de Casa: Memórias de Um Menino-Soldado
by:
Ishmael Beah
4.16 avg rating — 192,418 ratings 
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229. 
Among the Reeds: The True Story of How a Family Survived the Holocaust
by:
Tammy Bottner
4.32 avg rating — 1,526 ratings 
237. 
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
by:
Hyeonseo Lee
4.43 avg rating — 98,746 ratings 237. 
The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee and Mountain Man
by:
John Myers Myers
3.70 avg rating — 253 ratings 
243. 
Daughter in the Dungeon: The Horrific True Story of Joseph Fritzl
by:
Nigel Cawthorne
4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings 243. 
The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
243. 
A Battle For Living: The Life and Experiences of Lavina Eastlick
by:
John Isch
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 243. 
Hank Brodt Holocaust Memoirs: A Candle and a Promise
by:
Deborah Donnelly
4.60 avg rating — 410 ratings 252. 
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule from Ecuador to Cuzco
by:
Dervla Murphy
3.99 avg rating — 614 ratings 252. 
Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies among the Georgia Coastal Negroes (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings
252. 
The Mission of Abbé Glasberg: in the French Resistance during WWII
by:
Lucien Lazare
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings 
258. 
Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
by:
Tristram Korten
4.19 avg rating — 1,098 ratings 
263. 
Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios (Vintage Departures) 4.08 avg rating — 3,449 ratings
265. 
Albatross: The True Story of a Woman's Survival at Sea really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 309 ratings
265. 
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,518 ratings
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272. 
A Test of Will: One Man's Extraordinary Story of Survival
by:
Warren MacDonald
3.86 avg rating — 167 ratings 
272. 
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic & Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port & Most Original Town
by:
Mark Kurlansky
3.80 avg rating — 893 ratings 272. 
Hell's Broke Loose In Georgia: Survival In A Civil War Regiment
by:
Scott Walker
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings 
272. 
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
by:
Nick Heil
3.94 avg rating — 6,147 ratings 281. 
Left for Dead: Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History
by:
Nick Ward
4.16 avg rating — 836 ratings 
281. 
Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves
by:
David Rose
4.06 avg rating — 197 ratings 281. 
Journal of the Dead: A Story of Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert
by:
Jason Kersten
3.60 avg rating — 591 ratings 
286. 
State of the Peoples: A Global Human Rights Report on Societies in Danger
by:
Marc S. Miller
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 288. 
The Ship of Seven Murders: A True Story of Madness & Murder
by:
Alannah Hopkin
3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings 
288. 
All Standing: The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship
by:
Kathryn Miles
3.83 avg rating — 413 ratings 
291. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,681 ratings 291. 
New Atlantis: Musicians Battle for the Survival of New Orleans
by:
John Swenson
4.27 avg rating — 44 ratings 
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295. 
Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
by:
Alan Huffman
3.81 avg rating — 277 ratings 295. 
Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
by:
John M. Barry
4.22 avg rating — 5,752 ratings 298. 
The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm
by:
Matt Dickinson
3.92 avg rating — 763 ratings 
298. 
In the Wake of Madness: The Murderous Voyage of the Whaleship Sharon
by:
Joan Druett
3.71 avg rating — 749 ratings