 | Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $26.90 / Used from: $5.91 This is the one that got me started on this genre...love Jon Krakauer's writing...
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 | The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (P.S.) by Sebastian Junger
Buy new: $13.25 / Used from: $0.01 One of my favorites...a great story...a good movie too...
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 | True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $0.51 Not an adventure or survival story per se...but well written and very interesting...
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 | Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett
Buy used from: $11.16 Two groups are shipwrecked on the same Island (different times) but one group succeeds while the other disintegrates...a great story about human nature...
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 | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $2.67 Incredible story about an African boy soldier during civil strife who manages to eventually escape and write to tell his story...
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 | Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.27 Another Jon Krakauer story...excellent...great movie too...
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 | Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.45 |
 | In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.17 |
 | Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $2.31 |
 | Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.58 |
 | Papillon (P.S.) by Henri Charriere
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $3.07 |
 | Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival by Yossi Ghinsberg
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $8.52 |
 | Touching the Void (Vintage Classics) by Joe Simpson
Buy used from: $7.78 |
 | Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $9.89 |
 | The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.25 |
 | Ordeal by Hunger by George R. Stewart
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.99 |
 | The Lost Men: The Harrowing Saga of Shackleton's Ross Sea Party by Kelly Tyler-Lewis
Buy used from: $4.70 |
 | Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II by Brendan I. Koerner
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $1.26 |
 | Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny by Mike Dash
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.19 |
 | Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.21 |
 | North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic by Alvah Simon
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.12 |
 | In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Arctic by Valerian Albanov
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.89 |
 | In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock by Thomas Farel Heffernan
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.24 |
 | Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.49 |
 | The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.15 |
 | Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.74 |
 | Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert by William Langewiesche
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $0.50 |
 | We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.40 |
 | Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad
Buy new: $16.83 / Used from: $8.97 Different style of writing...more a syream of consciousness with no punctuation...but a good story and many lessons about father/son relationships...
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 | The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche by Gary Krist
Buy used from: $3.99 |
 | Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.71 |
 | 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 |
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