https://pithybooks.com/tags/survival/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “survival”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/beneath-a-scarlet-sky/ https://pithybooks.com/books/beneath-a-scarlet-sky/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pino Lella guides Jews over Alps then drives for Nazis in Milan. https://pithybooks.com/books/island-of-the-blue-dolphins/ https://pithybooks.com/books/island-of-the-blue-dolphins/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Left alone on San Nicolas Island for eighteen years, Karana builds shelter, faces wild dogs, and finds company with Rontu. https://pithybooks.com/books/hatchet/ https://pithybooks.com/books/hatchet/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A plane crash leaves thirteen-year-old Brian alone in the Canadian wild with only a hatchet. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-child-called-it/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-child-called-it/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-5th-wave/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-5th-wave/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cassie Sullivan crosses ruined Ohio to save Sammy after four alien waves, trusting Evan Walker while doubting him. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-call-of-the-wild/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-call-of-the-wild/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stolen pet Buck learns club and fang on the Klondike trail from Perrault to Thornton and the wolves. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-death-cure/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-death-cure/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Thomas refuses WICKED's final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north. https://pithybooks.com/books/watership-down/ https://pithybooks.com/books/watership-down/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-scorch-trials/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-scorch-trials/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches. https://pithybooks.com/books/american-dirt/ https://pithybooks.com/books/american-dirt/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lydia and Luca flee Acapulco after cartel murder and ride north through Mexico toward the US. https://pithybooks.com/books/project-hail-mary/ https://pithybooks.com/books/project-hail-mary/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A teacher wakes alone on a ship with dead crewmates and must solve why the sun is dimming to save Earth. https://pithybooks.com/books/room/ https://pithybooks.com/books/room/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five year old Jack narrates life with Ma in an 11 foot locked room. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-four-winds/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-four-winds/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Elsa Martinelli fights the Dust Bowl to save her Texas farm, then risks everything on the road to California. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-stand/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-stand/ Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A superflu wipes out most people as good and evil gather in two towns. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Young Coriolanus Snow mentors Lucy Gray in the 10th Hunger Games. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-great-alone/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-great-alone/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Allbright family moves to Alaska in the 1970s where Ernt's PTSD and winter test Leni. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-martian/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-martian/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Mark Watney is stranded on Mars after his crew leaves him for dead, and survives with botany, repairs, and stubborn humor. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-road/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-road/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A father and son walk through ash America with a cart and a pistol, repeating carry the fire. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-tattooist-of-auschwitz/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-tattooist-of-auschwitz/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Heather Morris retells the years of Lale Sokolov as tattooist at Auschwitz Birkenau, his love for Gita Furman, and the food trades and quiet risks that kept them alive. https://pithybooks.com/books/unbroken/ https://pithybooks.com/books/unbroken/ Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Louis Zamperini survives a Pacific crash, sharks and POW camps after running in the Berlin Olympics.