Stories centered around isolation, being stranded, societal collapse, and surviving in the wilderness.
created by Irenelikesbooks
last updated February, 2026
Tilt
Emma Pattee
The Antidote
Karen Russell
Sea Wife
Amity Gaige
So Far Gone
Jess Walter
Heartwood
Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks
Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
Waubgeshig Rice
Camp Zero
Michelle Min Sterling
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson
The Stand
Stephen King
The Cay (The Cay, #1)
Theodore Taylor
The Dog Stars
Peter Heller
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Jeff VanderMeer
Small Game
Blair Braverman
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Raft of Stars
Andrew J. Graff
The New Wilderness
Diane Cook
What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad
Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
Migrations
The Vaster Wilds
Lauren Groff
The Martian
Andy Weir
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
Nathaniel Ian Miller
What Kind of Paradise
Janelle Brown
Suddenly
Isabelle Autissier
The Revenant
Michael Punke
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
Gary Paulsen
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