Lilac Girls
Three women meet across World War II: a New York volunteer, a Polish courier turned prisoner, and a German camp doctor.
2,731-word summary · 12 min read
Tag: survival
125 books with this tag.
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Cujo
A rabid St. Bernard traps a mother and her young son in a broken-down car at a lonely Maine garage.
2,910-word summary · 13 min read
Blindness
A white blindness sweeps a city, and an eye doctor's wife who can still see guides seven strangers through camp and ruin.
2,772-word summary · 12 min read
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Left alone on San Nicolas Island for eighteen years, Karana builds shelter, faces wild dogs, and finds company with Rontu.
2,559-word summary · 11 min read
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Pino Lella guides Jews over Alps then drives for Nazis in Milan.
2,271-word summary · 10 min read
Hatchet
A plane crash leaves thirteen-year-old Brian alone in the Canadian wild with only a hatchet.
2,770-word summary · 12 min read
Watership Down
Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort.
2,550-word summary · 11 min read
The Death Cure
Thomas refuses WICKED's final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north.
2,955-word summary · 13 min read
The Call of the Wild
Stolen pet Buck learns club and fang on the Klondike trail from Perrault to Thornton and the wolves.
2,489-word summary · 11 min read
The 5th Wave
Cassie Sullivan crosses ruined Ohio to save Sammy after four alien waves, trusting Evan Walker while doubting him.
3,063-word summary · 14 min read
A Child Called It
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.
2,326-word summary · 10 min read
The Scorch Trials
Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches.
2,097-word summary · 9 min read
Into Thin Air
Krakauer's account of the 1996 Everest disaster: a guided summit push, a sudden storm, and the choices that left eight dead above 26,000 feet.
2,447-word summary · 11 min read
The Stand
A superflu wipes out most people as good and evil gather in two towns.
1,959-word summary · 9 min read
The Four Winds
Elsa Martinelli fights the Dust Bowl to save her Texas farm, then risks everything on the road to California.
2,099-word summary · 9 min read
Room
Five year old Jack narrates life with Ma in an 11 foot locked room.
1,960-word summary · 9 min read
Project Hail Mary
A teacher wakes alone on a ship with dead crewmates and must solve why the sun is dimming to save Earth.
2,293-word summary · 10 min read
American Dirt
Lydia and Luca flee Acapulco after cartel murder and ride north through Mexico toward the US.
2,079-word summary · 9 min read
Unbroken
Louis Zamperini survives a Pacific crash, sharks and POW camps after running in the Berlin Olympics.
3,263-word summary · 15 min read
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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…
2,442-word summary · 11 min read
The Road
A father and son walk through ash America with a cart and a pistol, repeating carry the fire.
3,243-word summary · 14 min read
The Martian
Mark Watney is stranded on Mars after his crew leaves him for dead, and survives with botany, repairs, and stubborn humor.
2,271-word summary · 10 min read
The Great Alone
The Allbright family moves to Alaska in the 1970s where Ernt's PTSD and winter test Leni.
3,460-word summary · 15 min read
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Young Coriolanus Snow mentors Lucy Gray in the 10th Hunger Games.
3,983-word summary · 18 min read