History is Survival
101. 
Bring Back Our Girls: The Untold Story of the Global Search for Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls
by:
Drew Hinshaw
4.28 avg rating — 375 ratings 
103. 
Lost in the Taiga: One Russian Family's Fifty-Year Struggle for Survival and Religious Freedom in the Siberian Wilderness
by:
Vasily Peskov
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 861 ratings 105. 
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
by:
Gwen Strauss
4.27 avg rating — 6,293 ratings 105. 
Blood in the Argonne: The “Lost Battalion” of World War I
by:
Alan D. Gaff
4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings 
109. 
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of Sally Miller and Her Fight for Freedom in Old New Orleans
by:
John Bailey
3.73 avg rating — 2,173 ratings 111. 
The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival
by:
Paul Conrad
3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings 112. 
113. 
Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
by:
Rebecca Frankel
4.31 avg rating — 2,619 ratings 
115. 
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
by:
Lucy Adlington
4.08 avg rating — 17,691 ratings 115. 
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
by:
Joan Druett
4.06 avg rating — 12,693 ratings 117. 
Forgiveness: The Story of Eva Kor, Survivor of The Auschwitz Twin Experiments
by:
Joe Lee
4.36 avg rating — 95 ratings 117. 
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
by:
Lars Brownworth
4.12 avg rating — 5,370 ratings 
120. 
Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
by:
Chris Lockhart
4.40 avg rating — 1,150 ratings 120. 
Lost Souls of the River Kwai: Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death
by:
Bill Reed
4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings 122. 
A Bright and Blinding Sun: A World War II Story of Survival, Love, and Redemption 4.47 avg rating — 289 ratings
122. 
Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong
by:
Michael Wejchert
4.01 avg rating — 1,450 ratings 124. 
The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust
by:
Harry Lenga
4.47 avg rating — 1,311 ratings 124. 
Sea Venture: Shipwreck, Survival, and the Salvation of the First English Colony in the New World
by:
Kieran Doherty
3.88 avg rating — 104 ratings 126. 
Lily Renée, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
by:
Trina Robbins
3.72 avg rating — 800 ratings 126. 
Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity
by:
Ejnar Mikkelsen
4.16 avg rating — 758 ratings 128. 
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
by:
Andrea Elliott
4.70 avg rating — 18,461 ratings 128. 
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by:
John Vaillant
4.07 avg rating — 18,590 ratings 130. 
130. 
Death & Survival in Glacier National Park: True Tales of Tragedy, Courage, & Misadventure
by:
C.W. Guthrie
3.85 avg rating — 158 ratings 132. 
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 132. 
Incredible Survival Stories: Tales of Death-Defying Treks across the Globe
by:
Graham Moore
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 134. 
137. 
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
by:
Nina Willner
4.37 avg rating — 12,280 ratings 139. 
Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival
by:
Diane Noomin
4.35 avg rating — 654 ratings 139. 
Angels in the Wilderness: The True Story of One Woman's Survival Against All Odds
by:
Amy Racina
3.69 avg rating — 159 ratings 
143. 
Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World
by:
Joan Druett
4.06 avg rating — 12,693 ratings 
145. 
The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific 4.53 avg rating — 5,336 ratings
146. 
Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion
by:
Jim Williams
4.30 avg rating — 374 ratings 146. 
149. 
The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon 4.08 avg rating — 113 ratings
149. 
Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival From The 2011 Canterbury Earthquake 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
152. 
Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music 4.20 avg rating — 315 ratings
152. 
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by:
Joe Simpson
4.23 avg rating — 63,075 ratings 
154. 
Trek: A Classic Adventure Story of Disaster and Survival in the Sahara
by:
Paul Stewart
4.18 avg rating — 88 ratings 156. 
Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival from a Chinese Labor Camp
by:
Xianhui Yang
4.38 avg rating — 332 ratings 157. 
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
by:
Nate Blakeslee
4.39 avg rating — 12,274 ratings 
160. 
Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China s Wartime Atrocity
by:
Homare Endo
4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings 160. 
Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
by:
Jay Atkinson
3.75 avg rating — 422 ratings 162. 
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
by:
Moriz Scheyer
4.01 avg rating — 170 ratings 162. 
164. 
The Coconut Latitudes: Secrets, Storms, and Survival in the Caribbean
by:
Rita M. Gardner
4.30 avg rating — 175 ratings 
167. 
Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World
by:
Jonathan Mingle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 48 ratings 
168. 
From the Jaws of Death: Extreme True Adventures of Man vs. Nature
by:
Brogan Steele
3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings 170. 
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 170. 
Captain John Smith, Adventurer: Piracy, Pocahontas & Jamestown
by:
R E Pritchard
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 172. 
172. 
Ancient Mariner: The Arctic Adventures of Samuel Hearne, the Sailor Who Inspired Coleridge's Masterpiece
by:
Ken McGoogan
3.88 avg rating — 88 ratings 174. 
Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory
by:
David W. Grua
3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings 174. 
Death in Acadia and Other Misadventures in Maine's National Park
by:
Randi Minetor
3.64 avg rating — 264 ratings 176. 
The Adventures of John Jewitt, only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston 3.96 avg rating — 251 ratings
177. 
People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion, and Survival really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
177. 
The Infortunate: The Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant
by:
William Moraley
3.39 avg rating — 79 ratings 179. 
Sanity and Grace: A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength
by:
Judy Collins
3.97 avg rating — 114 ratings 179. 
181. 
Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe
by:
Diana Souhami
3.51 avg rating — 454 ratings 182. 
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
by:
David Roberts
3.87 avg rating — 4,933 ratings 
184. 
My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor 4.38 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
186. 
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay: Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival 3.79 avg rating — 289 ratings
188. 
My Captivity: A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux
by:
Fanny Kelly
3.88 avg rating — 1,855 ratings 
190. 
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves
by:
Giles Milton
4.12 avg rating — 1,591 ratings 
194. 
The Boxer: The True Story of Holocaust Survivor Harry Haft
by:
Reinhard Kleist
4.08 avg rating — 1,178 ratings 194. 
The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America
by:
Matthew Pearl
3.63 avg rating — 2,638 ratings 
197. 
Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821–1910
by:
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings 197. 
The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
by:
Scott Weidensaul
4.07 avg rating — 1,013 ratings 199. 
Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor
by:
Al Kooper
4.06 avg rating — 513 ratings 199. 
Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws: Incredible True Stories of Wild West Showdowns and Frontier Justice 3.58 avg rating — 159 ratings