I’m open to nonfiction but usually prefer fiction, I want something maybe set during a big storm or tornado or snowstorm, or about being in the wilderness far away from surviving. (Enjoyed into the wild, into thin air, hatchet when I was a kid, etc), or ones where the people are cozy while a storm rages outside or stuck while in a snowstorm
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Wilderness survival – The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
Snowstorm – Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
*Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane* [the 1900 Galveston hurricane] by Erik Larson.
*Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America* by John M. Barry.
*The Railroad That Died at Sea* by Pat Parks: the 1935 Labor Day hurricane that savaged Key West.
I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall – a teenager surviving in the Alaskan wilderness after her father is killed
Ashfall by Mike Mullen
Ooooh, what about the Stormlight Archives? The storms are pretty bad assed!
I love the nonfiction side of this.
Into Thin Air about a failed Mt Everest expedition.
The Indifferent Stars Above about the doomed Donner Party
Alive about the the Uruguayan rugby team that resorts to cannibalism
In the Heart of the Sea about a whale that sinks a ship as they hunt each other.
Robinson Crusoe is a book everyone should read.
There’s also Swiss Family Robinson, Black Stallion, and Island of the Blue Dolphins if you never read those as a kid.
Unseen Continent is a really funny book by Terry Pratchett about a wizard stranded in a fictionalized version of the Australian desert.
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley is a murder mystery set in the scottish highlands during an snowstorm. A great page-turner! And, oddly cozy.