🏷️ Survival
44 entries tagged with this trope
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1936
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, this classic tells the story of the headstrong Scarlett O'Hara and her tumultuous love for Rhett Butler. It's a sweeping saga of love, loss, and resilience that remains timeless.
Love in a Time of the Zombie Apocalypse
rizzlewrites · 2020
Zombie apocalypse AU that somehow makes perfect sense. Hermione and Draco fighting zombies and falling in love.
House of Hades: Alternative
Takara Phoenix · 2013
Alternative take on Percy and Annabeth's journey through Tartarus with more focus on their relationship.
Love in a Time of the Zombie Apocalypse
rizzlewrites · 2020
The zombie apocalypse hits wizarding London. Draco and Hermione must work together to survive. Nothing brings enemies together like the end of the world.
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
Boy scouts on an island encounter a stranger who is impossibly thin and impossibly hungry. What follows is Lord of the Flies meets body horror. Do not read while eating.
Wastelands
SenLinYu · 2019
Post-apocalyptic Dramione. The magical world has collapsed. Draco and Hermione survive together in a bunker. Claustrophobic, desperate, and the intimacy born from survival is haunting.
Falling Through Tartarus
WorldsGreatestDefective · 2013
Extended Tartarus arc. Percy and Annabeth's journey through hell expanded to show every terrifying, tender moment of keeping each other alive. You will cry.
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
1970s Alaska. A Vietnam vet moves his family to the wilderness where his darkness has nowhere to hide. Hannah writes survival—both physical and emotional—like no one else.
Wastelands
MissFantastic · 2020
Post-apocalyptic Dramione. Magic is dying. The world is falling apart. Hermione and Draco must survive together. The worldbuilding is incredible.
No Exit
Taylor Adams · 2019
Darby is stranded at a highway rest stop in a blizzard. She finds a child locked in a van. There are four other strangers inside. One of them is the kidnapper.
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler · 1979
Dana, a Black woman in 1976 LA, keeps getting pulled back to antebellum Maryland. Each trip gets longer, more dangerous, and more entangled with her own ancestry. Required reading.
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
1974. A family moves to Alaska for a fresh start. The wilderness is beautiful and deadly. So is the father. Kristin Hannah writes survival — both literal and emotional — like no one else.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris · 2018
Lale tattoos the numbers on prisoners' arms. When he tattoos Gita, he makes a vow: he will survive and marry her. Based on a true story. Love as resistance.
Wastelands
mightbewriting · 2020
The Voldemort war went differently. Britain is a wasteland. Hermione and Draco survive together in the ruins. Bleak and beautiful and absolutely brutal.
The House of Hades (Extended Edition)
TheGreenSerpent · 2016
A deeper, darker retelling of Percy and Annabeth in Tartarus. Everything Riordan couldn't put in a kids' book. The horrors they face together test everything.
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
1974. A family moves to Alaska for a fresh start. The wilderness is beautiful and deadly, but the real danger is inside their cabin. Kristin Hannah does not miss.
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Two sisters in WWII France. One shelters a downed Allied pilot. One joins the Resistance. In love and war, everyone must choose a side. Will wreck you.
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah · 2021
Texas, 1934. Dust Bowl is destroying everything. Elsa must decide: fight for the land or head west to California. A love letter to the strength of American women.
The Book of Night Women
Marlon James · 2009
Lilith is born into slavery in 18th-century Jamaica. She discovers a group of slave women plotting a revolt. Marlon James writes with fire. Raw, brutal, unforgettable.
Wastelands
SentientCitizen · 2020
A post-apocalyptic AU where magic has been destroyed. Hermione and Draco are the last of their kind, forced to survive together in a wasteland. The tension is unbearable.
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver · 2022
A David Copperfield retelling set in Appalachian meth country. Demon is smart, funny, and fighting a system designed to break him. Pulitzer winner. Absolutely wrecking.
James
Percival Everett · 2024
Huck Finn retold from Jim's perspective. Jim is brilliant, educated, and playing a dangerous game of survival in a world that refuses to see him. A masterwork of American fiction.
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
A Boy Scout troop on a remote island. A starving stranger arrives. What he carries will test them all. Lord of the Flies meets The Thing. Not for the squeamish.
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
1974 Alaska. A Vietnam vet moves his family to the wilderness. As winter closes in, the isolation reveals the monster he's become. Leni must survive both the wild and her father.
Wastelands
SentientCitizen · 2020
Post-apocalyptic Dramione. Magic is dying. The world is ending. Hermione and Draco must cross a wasteland together to save what's left. Road trip of the century.
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015
Humanity's last survivors find a terraformed world — but the spiders got there first. Alternating chapters follow human desperation and spider evolution. You WILL root for the spiders.
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
A family moves to Alaska in the 1970s to start over. The wilderness is beautiful and deadly. So is Leni's father. A survival story about escaping the monsters inside your own home.
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Two sisters in Nazi-occupied France. One shelters the enemy. One joins the Resistance. Both are extraordinary. The ending will ruin you for days.
No Exit
Taylor Adams · 2019
Darby is stranded at a highway rest stop during a blizzard. In the parking lot, she finds a kidnapped child in a stranger's van. Four other people are in the building. One of them is the kidnapper.
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
A boy scout troop on a remote island encounters a stranger who's infected with something. Lord of the Flies meets body horror. Do NOT read while eating.
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969
An envoy arrives on a planet where people have no fixed gender. The political intrigue, the frozen landscape, the bond between two utterly different beings — Le Guin at her most visionary.
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
1974. Leni's family moves to Alaska to start over. The beauty is breathtaking. But winter comes, and with it, her father's darkness. A love letter to Alaska and a portrait of survival.
The Odds Were Never in My Favour
MissAnnThropic · 2012
What if Katniss had been from a Career district? A fascinating AU that reimagines the Hunger Games with Katniss and Peeta on opposite sides. The slow-burn is agonizing.
The Hunger
Alma Katsu · 2018
The Donner Party, but something is hunting them in the snow.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021
A man wakes up on a spaceship with no memory and a mission to save Earth. From the author of The Martian.
The Martian
Andy Weir · 2014
Stranded on Mars. Must science the hell out of this.
No Exit
Taylor Adams · 2019
A college student is stranded at a rest stop in a blizzard. She spots a child in a van. Four other people are stuck there. One of them took that child.
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
A scoutmaster and five boys on an island. A stranger arrives sick. Very sick. Lord of the Flies meets biological horror. Not for the squeamish.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris · 2018
Lale tattooed numbers on prisoners at Auschwitz. One day he tattooed the love of his life. A true story of love surviving the worst of humanity.
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
1974. A family moves to Alaska. The wilderness is brutal. The father is worse. A story about what it takes to survive when the danger is inside your home.
The Troop
Nick Cutter · 2014
Boy scout troop on an island. A stranger stumbles out of the woods, impossibly thin. Lord of the Flies meets body horror.
Wastelands
mightbewriting · 2020
Post-apocalyptic wizarding world. Draco and Hermione are among the few survivors. Survival romance at its most visceral.
One by One
Ruth Ware · 2020
A tech startup retreat in the French Alps turns deadly when an avalanche traps the team — and someone starts killing them off. Agatha Christie energy.
The Ritual
Adam Nevill · 2011
Four friends take a shortcut through a Scandinavian forest. Something ancient is hunting them. The first half is pure dread. One of the best creature-feature novels.