History is Survival
1. 
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating — 51,934 ratings 2. 
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
by:
Howard Zinn
4.08 avg rating — 259,693 ratings 3. 
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
by:
Naomi Wolf
3.96 avg rating — 3,099 ratings 4. 
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
by:
Timothy Egan
4.14 avg rating — 17,867 ratings 5. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,042 ratings 6. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,872 ratings 7. 
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour 4.35 avg rating — 11,393 ratings
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
by:
Jacques Barzun
4.13 avg rating — 4,605 ratings 11. 
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Vintage Departures)
by:
John Vaillant
4.07 avg rating — 18,587 ratings 12. 
Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
by:
Lizzie Johnson
4.33 avg rating — 2,605 ratings 13. 
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by:
David France
4.44 avg rating — 4,224 ratings 14. 
So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family's Fight for Survival During World War II 3.92 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Surviving the Essex: The Afterlife of America's Most Storied Shipwreck 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
by:
Jeff Sharlet
3.77 avg rating — 3,630 ratings 16. 
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
by:
Amanda Ripley
4.19 avg rating — 9,189 ratings 18. 
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Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
by:
Alex Kershaw
4.30 avg rating — 3,321 ratings 
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The Colony: The Harrowing True Story Of The Exiles Of Molokai
by:
John Tayman
3.81 avg rating — 2,293 ratings 22. 
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Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
by:
Lynne Olson
4.36 avg rating — 398 ratings 25. 
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 26. 
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
by:
Robert Whitaker
3.63 avg rating — 1,815 ratings 27. 
Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
by:
Luke Harding
4.13 avg rating — 964 ratings 28. 
Nakam: The Holocaust Survivors Who Sought Full-Scale Revenge
by:
Dina Porat
3.41 avg rating — 37 ratings 
30. 
Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods
by:
Cary J. Griffith
4.08 avg rating — 2,110 ratings 31. 
My Name Is Selma: The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor 4.18 avg rating — 3,420 ratings
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Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
by:
Shomari Wills
3.93 avg rating — 3,773 ratings 35. 
Hell's Broke Loose In Georgia: Survival In A Civil War Regiment
by:
Scott Walker
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings 36. 
Survive Like a Spy: Real CIA Operatives Reveal How They Stay Safe in a Dangerous World and How You Can Too
by:
Jason Hanson
3.35 avg rating — 533 ratings 37. 
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
by:
Richard Louv
3.93 avg rating — 14,733 ratings 38. 
Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
by:
Tristram Korten
4.19 avg rating — 1,098 ratings 39. 
A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival During the Korean War 3.50 avg rating — 179 ratings
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The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived
by:
Clive Finlayson
3.88 avg rating — 970 ratings 
43. 
Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
by:
Naomi Wolf
3.89 avg rating — 521 ratings 
43. 
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.97 avg rating — 13,937 ratings 
43. 
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by:
Jake Johnston
4.14 avg rating — 209 ratings 43. 
How to Survive the Titanic: or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
by:
Frances Wilson
3.48 avg rating — 829 ratings 
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Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America’s Deadliest Waterway
by:
Randall Sullivan
3.25 avg rating — 406 ratings 50. 
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
by:
Phillip Hoose
3.91 avg rating — 2,080 ratings 
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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
by:
Joel Bakan
4.07 avg rating — 4,787 ratings 
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Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms
by:
Seth Stern
4.05 avg rating — 59 ratings 56. 
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
by:
Doug Stanton
4.33 avg rating — 23,190 ratings 56. 
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 
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The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II
by:
Andrew Nagorski
3.75 avg rating — 518 ratings 60. 
Crash Landing: The Inside Story of How the World's Biggest Companies Survived an Economy on theBrink
by:
Liz Hoffman
3.96 avg rating — 333 ratings 63. 
The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea--The Forgotten War of the South Pacific
by:
James Campbell
4.03 avg rating — 1,291 ratings 63. 
Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
by:
Jeff Hobbs
4.04 avg rating — 386 ratings 65. 
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
by:
John D'Emilio
4.06 avg rating — 1,025 ratings 66. 
Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South
by:
James Oakes
4.09 avg rating — 55 ratings 66. 
Surviving in a Ruthless World: Bob Dylan's Voyage to Infidels
by:
Terry Gans
3.61 avg rating — 49 ratings 66. 
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 
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David's Story: Healed by faith, love, inner strength and the strong will to survive
by:
Marie Rothenberg
4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings 
71. 
The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
by:
Jay Winik
4.08 avg rating — 2,004 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
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I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980
by:
Lauren Tarshis
4.12 avg rating — 4,480 ratings 
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Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
by:
Michael Barone
3.51 avg rating — 306 ratings 78. 
A Stranger Among Saints: Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
by:
Jonathan Mack
3.95 avg rating — 143 ratings 78. 
I Survived Ted Bundy: The Attack, Escape & PTSD That Changed My Life
by:
Rhonda Stapley
4.09 avg rating — 438 ratings 80. 
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island 4.31 avg rating — 24,354 ratings
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Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More 3.96 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Wanderers: The Saga of Three Women Who Survived
by:
Ingrid Rimland
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings 81. 
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
by:
Timothy Egan
4.06 avg rating — 60,124 ratings 84. 
Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal that Shocked the Sports World
by:
Randy Lanier
4.38 avg rating — 259 ratings 84. 
Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
by:
Joan DeJean
3.61 avg rating — 314 ratings 86. 
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.26 avg rating — 9,821 ratings 
88. 
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
by:
David Roberts
3.88 avg rating — 535 ratings 88. 
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
by:
Velma Wallis
4.08 avg rating — 17,686 ratings 90. 
California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival
by:
Keith Corbin
4.23 avg rating — 418 ratings 90. 
Dog that Survived the Titanic: And Other Amazing Animal Stories
by:
Robert Lodge
3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings 92. 
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind 3.39 avg rating — 3,148 ratings
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North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both 4.25 avg rating — 17,611 ratings
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Strangers in a Stranger Land: How One Country's Jews Fought an Unwinnable War alongside Nazi Troops… and Survived
by:
John B. Simon
4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings 94. 
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 96. 
Yurei Attack!: The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide (Yokai ATTACK! Series)
by:
Hiroko Yoda
4.10 avg rating — 444 ratings 97. 
The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
by:
Stephan Talty
4.38 avg rating — 548 ratings 97. 
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated
by:
Alison Arngrim
4.09 avg rating — 18,171 ratings 99. 
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Lost Legend of the Thryberg Hawk: The Mystery Crossbow Boy who Saved the Fortunes of York at the Battle of Towton
by:
Jack Holroyd
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings