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High Stakes Survival
No rescue is coming. No backup plan. Just the will to live and whatever you have left.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman · Fantasy
**The apocalypse will be televised!** A man.
quest · found family · survival · high stakes survival
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · Sci-Fi
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
quest · space opera · survival · high stakes survival
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To Cage a Wild Bird
Brooke Fast · Romance
Enter the brutal world of Endlock, a prison where the wealthy hunt the inmates for sport.
enemies to lovers · forbidden romance · found family · dystopian society · high stakes survival
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The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · Literary Fiction
historical fiction · survival · high stakes survival
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The Complete Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan · Fantasy
This complete ebook collection contains all fifteen books in the Wheel of Time series: one the most influential and popular fantasy epics ever…
chosen one · quest · found family · survival · high stakes survival
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The Ritual
Adam Nevill · Horror
"When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their…
survival · high stakes survival · psychological thriller
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The Troop
Nick Cutter · Horror
Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip.
coming of age · cosmic horror · high stakes survival · grimdark
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Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · Fantasy
Eighteen-year-old Iris dreams that one day her writing will make a difference.
enemies to lovers · dark romance · forbidden romance · slow burn · high stakes survival
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Red Rising
Pierce Brown · Sci-Fi
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future.
chosen one · dystopian society · high stakes survival · enemies to lovers · found family · revenge plot
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Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi · Fantasy
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of…
slow burn · enemies to lovers · dystopian society · forbidden romance · trauma recovery · high stakes survival
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The Rage of Dragons
Evan Winter · Fantasy
The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years.
grimdark · chosen one · revenge plot · high stakes survival
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The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson · Fantasy
Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as…
chosen one · quest · magic academy · high stakes survival · found family
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The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang · Fantasy
A brilliantly imaginative talent makes her exciting debut with this epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s…
grimdark · chosen one · revenge plot · high stakes survival · dragons
grimdarkchosen onerevenge plothigh stakes survivaldragons🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus - ›14 ▼6
Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins · Fantasy
**When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?** As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games,…
dystopian society · grimdark · survival · high stakes survival · coming of age
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Operation Bounce House
Matt Dinniman · Sci-Fi
All New Sonoran colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to do is run the family ranch and keep their aging fleet of intelligent agriculture bots ticking.
survival · space opera · high stakes survival
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Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson · Fantasy
The opening chapter in an epic fantasy masterpiece....Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake…
grimdark · high stakes survival · political intrigue · found family
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Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins · Sci-Fi
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games.
dystopian society · survival · revenge plot · high stakes survival
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The Maze Runner
James Dashner · Sci-Fi
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name.
chosen one · survival · dystopian society · post apocalyptic · amnesia · high stakes survival
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Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah · Sci-Fi
She felt their eyes, all those executioners… Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the…
dystopian society · high stakes survival · political intrigue · revenge plot
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Recursion
Blake Crouch · Sci-Fi
**Memory makes reality.** That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has…
time travel · psychological thriller · twist ending · high stakes survival · amnesia
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Dark Age
Pierce Brown · Sci-Fi
*He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….* A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an…
space opera · dystopian society · high stakes survival
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Divergent
Veronica Roth · Sci-Fi
‘Divergent’ is the first in a trilogy of dystopian, YA novels by Veronica Roth.
chosen one · dystopian society · coming of age · forbidden romance · high stakes survival
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke · Sci-Fi
A deluxe hardcover edition of the wondrous space adventure that is the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s Oscar-winning film—now celebrating its 50th…
space opera · first contact · high stakes survival
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