Best True Survival Stories
298. 
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians (1871)
by:
Fanny Kelly
3.88 avg rating — 1,855 ratings 
303. 
A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's The Tempest
by:
Hobson Woodward
3.60 avg rating — 321 ratings 303. 
Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917
by:
Laura Mac Donald
3.98 avg rating — 1,182 ratings 303. 
BOY CAPT BEING TRUE (The Garland library of narratives of North American Indian captivities)
by:
Washburn
4.18 avg rating — 137 ratings 303. 
Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821–1910
by:
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 
308. 
Tent Life in Siberia: An Incredible Account of Siberian Adventure, Travel, and Survival
by:
George Kennan
4.19 avg rating — 428 ratings 
308. 
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
by:
Jeffrey Tayler
3.80 avg rating — 1,016 ratings 308. 
308. 
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
by:
Melissa Fleming
4.33 avg rating — 6,232 ratings 
314. 
The Wreck of the Medusa: The Most Famous Sea Disaster of the Nineteenth Century
by:
Jonathan Miles
3.65 avg rating — 555 ratings 314. 
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival 3.79 avg rating — 289 ratings
314. 
White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
by:
Betty Jeffrey
4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings 
318. 
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
by:
Wallace Stegner
4.05 avg rating — 4,163 ratings 318. 
Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle that Made England
by:
Juliet Barker
4.13 avg rating — 2,043 ratings 318. 
Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
by:
Elizabeth Rosner
4.16 avg rating — 573 ratings 
323. 
When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake
by:
Brian Hicks
3.91 avg rating — 314 ratings 323. 
Tschiffely's Ride: Ten Thousand Miles in the Saddle from Southern Cross to Pole Star
by:
Aimé Tschiffely
4.45 avg rating — 429 ratings 323. 
Sanity and Grace: A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength
by:
Judy Collins
3.97 avg rating — 114 ratings 
327. 
Caliban's Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors
by:
Stephen Taylor
3.86 avg rating — 465 ratings 
327. 
People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
327. 
The Shattered Lens: A War Photographer's True Story of Captivity and Survival in Syria 3.35 avg rating — 241 ratings
335. 
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
by:
Moriz Scheyer
4.01 avg rating — 170 ratings 
338. 
Presidio Santa María de Galve: A Struggle for Survival in Colonial Spanish Pensacola (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
by:
Judith A. Bense
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 338. 
Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
340. 
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A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival During the Korean War 3.50 avg rating — 179 ratings
342. 
Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
by:
Bob Drury
4.20 avg rating — 2,034 ratings 
344. 
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Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
by:
Edgar Harrell
4.24 avg rating — 1,160 ratings 346. 
How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else 3.48 avg rating — 11,308 ratings
348. 
My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor 4.38 avg rating — 2,302 ratings
352. 
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius
by:
Kristine Barnett
4.09 avg rating — 7,768 ratings 352. 
I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives
by:
Roberto Canessa
4.24 avg rating — 2,048 ratings 352. 
Fatal North: Murder and Survival on the First North Pole Expedition
by:
Bruce Henderson
4.18 avg rating — 1,259 ratings 355. 
In Search of the Missing: Working With Search and Rescue Dogs
by:
Mick McCarthy
3.28 avg rating — 39 ratings 
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Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific 4.19 avg rating — 634 ratings
365. 
Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
by:
Kalee Thompson
4.25 avg rating — 1,238 ratings 365. 
Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China s Wartime Atrocity
by:
Homare Endo
4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings 367. 
Paris Under Water: how the City of Light survived the great flood of 1910 3.72 avg rating — 268 ratings
367. 
The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
by:
Lisa Servon
3.97 avg rating — 939 ratings 369. 
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
by:
Douglas Brinkley
4.17 avg rating — 3,064 ratings 370. 
Surviving the 21st Century: Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them
by:
Julian Cribb
4.33 avg rating — 46 ratings 371. 
Surviving Your Child's Adolescence: How to Understand, and Even Enjoy, the Rocky Road to Independence
by:
Carl Pickhardt
3.93 avg rating — 68 ratings 372. 
Rescue at the Top of the World: The True Story of the Most Daring Arctic Rescue in History
by:
Shawn T. Shallow
3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings 373. 
A Salamander's Tale: My Story of Regeneration?Surviving 30 Years with Prostate Cancer
by:
Paul Steinberg
3.53 avg rating — 34 ratings 373. 
If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story
by:
George Wilson
4.23 avg rating — 3,877 ratings 375. 
Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory
by:
David W. Grua
3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings 376. 
Children of the Aging Self-Absorbed: A Guide to Coping with Difficult, Narcissistic Parents and Grandparents
by:
Nina W. Brown
3.52 avg rating — 171 ratings 376. 
Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
by:
John N. Maclean
4.16 avg rating — 1,527 ratings 378. 
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
by:
Ted Koppel
3.71 avg rating — 5,478 ratings 379. 
Why the Reckless Survive...and other secrets of human nature
by:
Melvin Konner
3.33 avg rating — 24 ratings 380. 
381. 
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
by:
Dave Eggers
4.30 avg rating — 352 ratings 382. 
383. 
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived
by:
Clive Finlayson
3.88 avg rating — 970 ratings 384. 
While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 4.10 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
385. 
Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and her Courageous Crew
by:
Alex Kershaw
4.14 avg rating — 2,498 ratings 385. 
Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor
by:
Al Kooper
4.06 avg rating — 513 ratings 387. 
Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived
by:
Chip Walter
4.01 avg rating — 1,233 ratings 388. 
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century 3.83 avg rating — 3,161 ratings
389. 
Be My Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or My Life As a Fabulous Ronette
by:
Ronnie Spector
4.07 avg rating — 2,152 ratings 
392. 
Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed and Karl Rove
by:
Max Cleland
3.91 avg rating — 81 ratings 
394. 
Red Lead: The legendary Australian ship's cat who survived the sinking of HMAS Perth and the Thai-Burma Railway
by:
Roland Perry
4.15 avg rating — 186 ratings 395. 
Fire and Ashes: On the Front Lines of American Wildfire
by:
John N. Maclean
3.97 avg rating — 119 ratings 395. 
Dear America: The True Odyssey of an American Youth who Miraculously Survived the Concentration Camps of the Soviet Gulag
by:
Thomas Sgovio
4.79 avg rating — 33 ratings 397. 
The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War
by:
Doug Stanton
4.29 avg rating — 1,156 ratings 398. 
Lost in Tibet: The Untold Story Of Five American Airmen, A Doomed Plane, And The Will To Survive
by:
Richard Starks
3.81 avg rating — 207 ratings 399. 
400. 
Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong
by:
Michael Wejchert
4.01 avg rating — 1,451 ratings