When survival is what you want (or what you keep running into), start here.
Frozen in Time
Mitchell Zuckoff
Breaking Free
Rachel Jeffs
Command and Control
Eric Schlosser
Hope
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus
Adrift
Steven Callahan
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
My Next Breath
Jeremy Renner
127 Hours
Aron Ralston
The Cloud Roads
Martha Wells
Island of the Lost
Joan Druett
