The most popular French survival books of 2021

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 2021. Only books in French are listed.

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Point zéro
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Point zéro

Alan Gratz

Published 2021

336 pages

Sorrowland
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Sorrowland

Rivers Solomon

2021 · 2023 edition

512 pages

L'atelier
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L'atelier

Sarah Hall

2021 · 2023 edition

272 pages

The Block
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The Block

Ben Oliver

Published 2021

368 pages