“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, “Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage” by Alfred Lansing, “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, “The Martian” by Andy Weir.
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Alive by Piers Paul Read
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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer – non-fiction about the disastrous Everest expedition in 1996. South – Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic. The Wager by David Grann about the voyage and shipwreck of the Wager.
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The Shining
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How about several groups of people?
When the US closed their airspace and ordered every plane to land on 9/11, tens of thousands of people were still in the air, on planes from Europe for example. Thousands of them landed in the small Newfoundland town of Gander and had to stay there for about a week: immigrants, CEOs, tourists, young parents getting their adopted kids from Asia, parents to NY a firefighter, high ranking intelligence officers, and so on.
The book is called The day the world came to town, and it’s a true story.
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{{Everybody in my family has killed someone}}
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Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado (great companion book to Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read)
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Four Against the Wilderness / Almost Too Late by Elmo Wortman
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At the beach by Nevil Shute.
The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous. So not exactly a fun book 😉
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Devolution by Max Brooks
Yes, it involves sasquatches but it’s incredibly believable and suspenseful and I still think about it years after I read it.
“It chronicles the story of a small, isolated community of technologically-dependent city dwellers who suddenly are cut off from the rest of the world after a volcanic eruption.[2] In addition to lacking outdoor survival skills and resources, they find themselves under siege by a clan of Bigfoot.”
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“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, “Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage” by Alfred Lansing, “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, “The Martian” by Andy Weir.
Alive by Piers Paul Read
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer – non-fiction about the disastrous Everest expedition in 1996. South – Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic. The Wager by David Grann about the voyage and shipwreck of the Wager.
The Shining
How about several groups of people?
When the US closed their airspace and ordered every plane to land on 9/11, tens of thousands of people were still in the air, on planes from Europe for example. Thousands of them landed in the small Newfoundland town of Gander and had to stay there for about a week: immigrants, CEOs, tourists, young parents getting their adopted kids from Asia, parents to NY a firefighter, high ranking intelligence officers, and so on.
The book is called The day the world came to town, and it’s a true story.
{{Everybody in my family has killed someone}}
Miracle in the Andes by Nando Parrado (great companion book to Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read)
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Four Against the Wilderness / Almost Too Late by Elmo Wortman
At the beach by Nevil Shute.
The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous. So not exactly a fun book 😉
Devolution by Max Brooks
Yes, it involves sasquatches but it’s incredibly believable and suspenseful and I still think about it years after I read it.
“It chronicles the story of a small, isolated community of technologically-dependent city dwellers who suddenly are cut off from the rest of the world after a volcanic eruption.[2] In addition to lacking outdoor survival skills and resources, they find themselves under siege by a clan of Bigfoot.”