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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

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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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

    🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️Spicy — explicit sexual content, multiple open-door scenes
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    The Great Alone

    Kristin Hannah · Literary Fiction

    historical fiction · survival · high stakes survival

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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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

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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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

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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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

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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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

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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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

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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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

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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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

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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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

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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    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

    🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
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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

    🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus
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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