Last of the Breed (Louis L’Amour) would suit you very, very well.
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A bit of a fantasy twist, The Borrowers Afield and the Borrowers Afloat!
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Kind of an obscure book, but A Wild Thing by Jean Renvoize. About a Runaway girl who lives in the mountains.
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The Martian by Andy Weir has a great scavenging / survivor vibe.
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I just did in my last comment: Lucifer’s Hammer
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Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West
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Severance: A Novel by Ling Ma
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I just read “Island of the Lost,” by Joan Druett and absolutely loved it. It’s non fiction about two separate shipwrecks that happened on one island, at the same time, but didn’t know about each other. Their survival stories were vastly different. In the same vein, “Endurance,” by Alfred Lansing about Shackleton’s expedition to Antarctica that went awry. Both of these tales are so amazing that they could be fiction.
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The Silo series
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The Hunger Games. This is exactly what it’s about.
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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**A Boy and His Dog** – Harlan Ellison (1969) A 15 year old boy with a telepathic dog fight to survive in the post-apocalyptic world of **2024** America. There is also a film adaptation staring Don Johnson. The dog is the smart one.
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Blindness – saramago
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Into the Forest – Jean Hegland. Hatchet- Gary Paulson
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The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
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Have you read Station Eleven?
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Margaret Atwood has the madaddam trilogy, starting with oryx and crake
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Grapes of wrath. Not a scifi thing but a lot of trying to get by with nothing.
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Hatchet for sure!
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World Made by Hand
Alas, Babylon
Earth Abides
The Road
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The island of the blue dolphins by Scott O‘Dell.
It’s not really apocalyptic or anything but it focuses on the main character surviving by herself after she was left alone on an island by her tribe. The book is rather old and a bit more focused on female readers but it’s amazing if you ask me.
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Maybe the The Survivalist series by A. American.
*Life as we knew it*
[Borne](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/31451186) is a good sci-fi one.
Parable of the Sower
The Dog Stars
If you’re up for an easy read, YA novel, I read Hatchet by Gary Paulsen as a 42-year-old and absolutely loved it.
The classic of this is My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Another classic, but more popular in Canada than the US, is Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
Other people have already recommended {{The Road by Cormac McCarthy}} and it really is exactly what you described.
Scavenger Lord & Artefact War – https://amazon.com/author/ralphhalse
Last of the Breed (Louis L’Amour) would suit you very, very well.
A bit of a fantasy twist, The Borrowers Afield and the Borrowers Afloat!
Kind of an obscure book, but A Wild Thing by Jean Renvoize. About a Runaway girl who lives in the mountains.
The Martian by Andy Weir has a great scavenging / survivor vibe.
I just did in my last comment: Lucifer’s Hammer
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party’s Perilous Journey West
Severance: A Novel by Ling Ma
I just read “Island of the Lost,” by Joan Druett and absolutely loved it. It’s non fiction about two separate shipwrecks that happened on one island, at the same time, but didn’t know about each other. Their survival stories were vastly different. In the same vein, “Endurance,” by Alfred Lansing about Shackleton’s expedition to Antarctica that went awry. Both of these tales are so amazing that they could be fiction.
The Silo series
The Hunger Games. This is exactly what it’s about.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
**A Boy and His Dog** – Harlan Ellison (1969) A 15 year old boy with a telepathic dog fight to survive in the post-apocalyptic world of **2024** America. There is also a film adaptation staring Don Johnson. The dog is the smart one.
Blindness – saramago
Into the Forest – Jean Hegland. Hatchet- Gary Paulson
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
Have you read Station Eleven?
Margaret Atwood has the madaddam trilogy, starting with oryx and crake
Grapes of wrath. Not a scifi thing but a lot of trying to get by with nothing.
Hatchet for sure!
World Made by Hand
Alas, Babylon
Earth Abides
The Road
The island of the blue dolphins by Scott O‘Dell.
It’s not really apocalyptic or anything but it focuses on the main character surviving by herself after she was left alone on an island by her tribe. The book is rather old and a bit more focused on female readers but it’s amazing if you ask me.
Also my favourite book if you couldn’t tell 😂
Alive. Don’t take too many notes though.
My Side of the Mountain
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48836769
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett. It’s like if hunger games met the handmaids tale maybe? I’m not sure I haven’t read handmaids tale. But it was good!
I remember loving Swiss Family Robinson and My Side of the Mountain.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Mysterious Island
The Martian
The 39 Steps
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
The Long Walk by Stephen King epic survival
Adrift by Callahan
Scrappy sailor survives 76 days lost at sea, confined to a dinghy, using only his sheer will and wits.
I am Legend
The Valley of the Horses.
Into th Wild- john Krakauer