The Beasts We Bury
D. L. Taylor
2025 · 2026 edition
384 pages
The most popular survival books of 2025
Survival stories strip everything back to staying alive. A plane goes down, a boat sinks, the snow closes in or society falls apart, and someone has to find water, shelter and the will to go on. Novels and true accounts here are impossible to put down. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
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Fable for the End of the World Deluxe Limited Edition
Ava Reid
Published 2025
448 pages
The Legendary Scarlett and Browne
Jonathan Stroud
Published 2025
416 pages
Lost in Saskachoo Swamp (Wilderness Survival)
Thomas Kingsley Troupe
Published 2025
112 pages
Rescue at the Reef The Miraculous True Story of a Little Boy with Big Faith
Jameson Reeder, Mary Catherine Reeder
Published 2025
224 pages
These Lives History, Hilarity, Horror, Growing Up in Cold War Romania
Eliade Moldovan
Published 2025
286 pages
After
Molly McNamara Carter
Published 2025
172 pages
Save Our Souls
Matthew Pearl
Published 2025
272 pages
The Survivor How I Made It Through Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter
Michael Calvin, Josef Lewkowicz
Published 2025
272 pages
Profiles in Hope
John Brogden
Published 2025
336 pages
The Ship for Kobe
Dacia Maraini, Genni Gunn
Published 2025
200 pages
The Great Mouse Escape A Word of Mouse Tail
James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein
Published 2025
336 pages
The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
Lynne Olson
Published 2025
384 pages
If We Survive This
Racquel Marie
Published 2025
336 pages
A Family Friend
Casey Watson
Published 2025
320 pages
The Gods' Revenge
Katherine Marsh
Published 2025
256 pages
Escape from the USS Indianapolis
Andy Marino
Published 2025
192 pages
The Elf on the Shelf Santaverse
Chanda A. Bell, Marco Bucci
Published 2025
320 pages
The Art Spy
Michelle Young
Published 2025
288 pages
The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams Newbery Honor Award Winner
Daniel Nayeri
Published 2025
224 pages
Love Lay Down Beside Me and We Wept
Helen Murray Taylor
Published 2025
272 pages
Betty Steady and the Queen's Orb
Nicky Smith-Dale
Published 2025
304 pages
Camp Barebones
JILL. KAVOUKIAN
Published 2025
22 pages
Believe and Achieve
Jace Michael Rhodes
Published 2025
87 pages