😔 Survival Guilt

Stories and accounts grappling with the anguish of having lived when others did not—the corrosive weight of asking why me, and the long work of learning to bear the answer.

No Time to Say Goodbye

by Carla Fine • 1996

For anyone left behind after a suicide: why this grief is different, and what actually helps.

4.25

1k+

🖤 Suicide Bereavement 💔 Trauma Recovery 😞 Survivor Guilt

No Time to Say Goodbye 90%

For anyone left behind after a suicide: why this grief is different, and what actually helps.

by Carla Fine 1996

4.25

1k+ ratings

🖤 Suicide Bereavement 💔 Trauma Recovery 😞 Survivor Guilt

Wave

by Sonali Deraniyagala • 2013

A tsunami erased her family in minutes. Surviving it was only the first impossible thing.

3.80

23k+

🌊 Natural Disasters 🕊️ Bereavement And Loss 💔 Survivor'S Guilt

Wave 88%

A tsunami erased her family in minutes. Surviving it was only the first impossible thing.

by Sonali Deraniyagala 2013

3.80

23k+ ratings

🌊 Natural Disasters 🕊️ Bereavement And Loss 💔 Survivor'S Guilt

After Auschwitz

by Eva Schloss • 2013

Betrayed on her fifteenth birthday, a girl survives Auschwitz and becomes Anne Frank's stepsister.

4.32

8k+

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 🧱 Camp Survival 🕵️ Life In Hiding

After Auschwitz 88%

Betrayed on her fifteenth birthday, a girl survives Auschwitz and becomes Anne Frank's stepsister.

by Eva Schloss 2013

4.32

8k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 🧱 Camp Survival 🕵️ Life In Hiding

Los hornos de Hitler

by Olga Lengyel • 1947

A Hungarian doctor's wife keeps her family together all the way to the gates of Birkenau.

4.42

21k+

🕯️ Holocaust Memoir 🏚️ Auschwitz Survivor 🏥 Camp Infirmary

Los hornos de Hitler 88%

A Hungarian doctor's wife keeps her family together all the way to the gates of Birkenau.

by Olga Lengyel 1947

4.42

21k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoir 🏚️ Auschwitz Survivor 🏥 Camp Infirmary

Saved

by Benjamin Hall • 2023

An explosion in Ukraine costs him legs and an eye. Recovery asks more than war.

4.56

5k+

📡 War Reporting 🏥 Medical Rehabilitation 🩹 Trauma Recovery

Saved 88%

An explosion in Ukraine costs him legs and an eye. Recovery asks more than war.

by Benjamin Hall 2023

4.56

5k+ ratings

📡 War Reporting 🏥 Medical Rehabilitation 🩹 Trauma Recovery

A Brilliant Life

by Rachelle Unreich • 2023

An SS officer spared Mira at the Auschwitz ramp. Why he did is the first mystery.

4.29

2k+

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Second-Generation Trauma 📜 Bearing Witness

A Brilliant Life 88%

An SS officer spared Mira at the Auschwitz ramp. Why he did is the first mystery.

by Rachelle Unreich 2023

4.29

2k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Second-Generation Trauma 📜 Bearing Witness

Déogratias

by Jean-Philippe Stassen • 2000

His Tutsi friends are dead, he helped kill them, and now only beer quiets their ghosts.

3.46

1k+

🖤 Rwandan Genocide 😔 Survivor Guilt 👻 Haunted By The Dead

Déogratias 88%

His Tutsi friends are dead, he helped kill them, and now only beer quiets their ghosts.

by Jean-Philippe Stassen 2000

3.46

1k+ ratings

🖤 Rwandan Genocide 😔 Survivor Guilt 👻 Haunted By The Dead

The Story of a Life

by Aharon Appelfeld • 1983

War silenced him. What grew in the silence, decades later, became a writer's whole art.

3.89

921

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🏛️ Cultural Memory

The Story of a Life 88%

War silenced him. What grew in the silence, decades later, became a writer's whole art.

by Aharon Appelfeld 1983

3.89

921 ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🏛️ Cultural Memory

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree

by Laura Hillman • 2003

Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.

4.16

6k+

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🌿 Survivor Memoirs 📋 Schindler Survivors

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree 88%

Schindler's list saved her life. A boy's promise inside the camps saved her will to live.

by Laura Hillman 2003

4.16

6k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Testimony 🌿 Survivor Memoirs 📋 Schindler Survivors

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

by Stuart Ross • 2022

A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.

3.84

189

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🕯️ Grief Memoir 🛡️ Emotional Avoidance

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers Summary

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers 88%

A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.

by Stuart Ross 2022

3.84

189 ratings

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🕯️ Grief Memoir 🛡️ Emotional Avoidance

The Happiest Man on Earth

by Eddie Jaku • 2020

Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.

4.62

134k+

📖 Holocaust Testimony 🛡️ Moral Resilience 🤝 Friendship And Survival

The Happiest Man on Earth 88%

Auschwitz, Buchenwald, then Australia: how a man who lost everything rebuilt a life he calls happy.

by Eddie Jaku 2020

4.62

134k+ ratings

📖 Holocaust Testimony 🛡️ Moral Resilience 🤝 Friendship And Survival

Life After Suicide

by Jennifer Ashton • 2019

A husband's suicide, a doctor's grief: finding the way through a loss nobody talks about.

3.83

934

🖤 Suicide Loss 📖 Grief Memoir 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma

Life After Suicide 88%

A husband's suicide, a doctor's grief: finding the way through a loss nobody talks about.

by Jennifer Ashton 2019

3.83

934 ratings

🖤 Suicide Loss 📖 Grief Memoir 🏷️ Mental Health Stigma

Die Wolke

by Gudrun Pausewang • 1987

A nuclear cloud is spreading. With her little brother behind her, a girl pedals into the chaos.

3.67

5k+

🏭 Nuclear Disaster 👧 Sibling Protection 💔 Harrowing Realism

Die Wolke 88%

A nuclear cloud is spreading. With her little brother behind her, a girl pedals into the chaos.

by Gudrun Pausewang 1987

3.67

5k+ ratings

🏭 Nuclear Disaster 👧 Sibling Protection 💔 Harrowing Realism

September 11

by Dean E. Murphy • 2002

A blind man, his guide dog, a stranger: 78 flights down. Then the tower fell.

4.34

272

🎙️ Oral History 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🚒 First Responders

September 11 87%

A blind man, his guide dog, a stranger: 78 flights down. Then the tower fell.

by Dean E. Murphy 2002

4.34

272 ratings

🎙️ Oral History 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🚒 First Responders

When Broken Glass Floats

by Chanrithy Him • 2000

Nine when Phnom Penh emptied overnight. Fourteen when she buried her parents and three siblings.

4.18

5k+

🏴 Khmer Rouge 👧 Child Survivor 🗣️ Survivor Testimony

When Broken Glass Floats 87%

Nine when Phnom Penh emptied overnight. Fourteen when she buried her parents and three siblings.

by Chanrithy Him 2000

4.18

5k+ ratings

🏴 Khmer Rouge 👧 Child Survivor 🗣️ Survivor Testimony

Night

by Elie Wiesel • 1956

A boy enters Auschwitz with a father to protect and a God who falls silent.

4.38

1.4M+

🕯️ Holocaust Memoir 👨‍👦 Father And Son 🙏 Loss Of Faith

Night 87%

A boy enters Auschwitz with a father to protect and a God who falls silent.

by Elie Wiesel 1956

4.38

1.4M+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoir 👨‍👦 Father And Son 🙏 Loss Of Faith

The Farewell Chronicles

by Anneli Rufus • 2005

Grief's ugly secret: behind the flowers and tears, a circus of shame, relief, greed, and guilt.

4.05

⚰️ Death And Society 🤐 Grief Taboos 🧠 Narrative Psychology

The Farewell Chronicles 87%

Grief's ugly secret: behind the flowers and tears, a circus of shame, relief, greed, and guilt.

by Anneli Rufus 2005

4.05

57 ratings

⚰️ Death And Society 🤐 Grief Taboos 🧠 Narrative Psychology

Cilka's Journey

by Heather Morris • 2019

Auschwitz survivor Cilka is sentenced to a Siberian gulag. Inside, nursing becomes her salvation.

4.40

219k+

📚 Gulag Literature 🕊️ Post-Holocaust 💪 Resilient Women

Cilka's Journey 87%

Auschwitz survivor Cilka is sentenced to a Siberian gulag. Inside, nursing becomes her salvation.

by Heather Morris 2019

4.40

219k+ ratings

📚 Gulag Literature 🕊️ Post-Holocaust 💪 Resilient Women

Any Ordinary Day

by Leigh Sales • 2018

A journalist discovers that the most resilient people do not overcome tragedy: they absorb it.

4.13

17k+

🎤 Narrative Journalism 🧠 Trauma Psychology 🌱 Posttraumatic Growth

Any Ordinary Day 87%

A journalist discovers that the most resilient people do not overcome tragedy: they absorb it.

by Leigh Sales 2018

4.13

17k+ ratings

🎤 Narrative Journalism 🧠 Trauma Psychology 🌱 Posttraumatic Growth

The Gift

by Edith Eger • 2020

A Holocaust survivor turned therapist maps the escape from the mental prisons we construct.

4.43

21k+

🕊️ Trauma Healing 🔒 Self-Limiting Beliefs ✋ Personal Agency

The Gift 87%

A Holocaust survivor turned therapist maps the escape from the mental prisons we construct.

by Edith Eger 2020

4.43

21k+ ratings

🕊️ Trauma Healing 🔒 Self-Limiting Beliefs ✋ Personal Agency

In My Time of Dying

by Sebastian Junger • 2024

A near-fatal aneurysm, a father's ghost, and a journalist's investigation into what lies beyond.

3.82

9k+

🏥 Medical Memoir 🕳️ Near-Death Experiences 💀 Mortality Studies

In My Time of Dying 87%

A near-fatal aneurysm, a father's ghost, and a journalist's investigation into what lies beyond.

by Sebastian Junger 2024

3.82

9k+ ratings

🏥 Medical Memoir 🕳️ Near-Death Experiences 💀 Mortality Studies

Chasing Chaos

by Jessica Alexander • 2013

Humanitarian aid isn't what the brochures promise. A decade inside the machine shows why.

4.09

3k+

🌍 Humanitarian Aid 📋 Aid Industry Critique 🚨 Disaster Response

Chasing Chaos 87%

Humanitarian aid isn't what the brochures promise. A decade inside the machine shows why.

by Jessica Alexander 2013

4.09

3k+ ratings

🌍 Humanitarian Aid 📋 Aid Industry Critique 🚨 Disaster Response

Little Bee

by Chris Cleave • 2008

Fresh out of detention, a Nigerian refugee finds the woman who once looked away.

3.72

249k+

🏃 Refugee Narrative 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 😔 Survivor'S Guilt

Little Bee 87%

Fresh out of detention, a Nigerian refugee finds the woman who once looked away.

by Chris Cleave 2008

3.72

249k+ ratings

🏃 Refugee Narrative 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 😔 Survivor'S Guilt

Crucible of Terror

by Max Liebster • 2003

He carried his father to the crematorium. Then the purple triangles taught him to forgive.

4.69

166

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 🇩🇪 Nazi Germany 🕊️ Spiritual Resistance

Crucible of Terror 87%

He carried his father to the crematorium. Then the purple triangles taught him to forgive.

by Max Liebster 2003

4.69

166 ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 🇩🇪 Nazi Germany 🕊️ Spiritual Resistance

The Choice

by Edith Eger • 2017

Auschwitz taught her the mind is the only prison we can escape; now she helps others.

4.57

133k+

📖 Trauma Memoir 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth 🩹 Trauma Recovery

The Choice 87%

Auschwitz taught her the mind is the only prison we can escape; now she helps others.

by Edith Eger 2017

4.57

133k+ ratings

📖 Trauma Memoir 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth 🩹 Trauma Recovery

Crucible of Terror

by Max Liebster • 2017

Five concentration camps, one stranger's faith, and a baptism in a former prime minister's bathtub.

4.90

🕯️ Holocaust Survival ✝️ Faith During Persecution 🌅 Spiritual Transformation

Crucible of Terror 87%

Five concentration camps, one stranger's faith, and a baptism in a former prime minister's bathtub.

by Max Liebster 2017

4.90

87 ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Survival ✝️ Faith During Persecution 🌅 Spiritual Transformation

My Friend Anne Frank

by Hannah Pick-Goslar • 2023

Anne Frank's best friend was in the camps, not the attic, and they met one last time.

4.66

8k+

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 📔 Anne Frank 💔 Lost Families

My Friend Anne Frank 87%

Anne Frank's best friend was in the camps, not the attic, and they met one last time.

by Hannah Pick-Goslar 2023

4.66

8k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 📔 Anne Frank 💔 Lost Families

Hate List

by Jennifer Brown • 2009

After her boyfriend's school shooting, a girl's notebook of grudges turns her into a suspect.

4.00

67k+

🏫 School Shooting Aftermath 💔 Survivor'S Guilt 🎨 Healing Through Art

Hate List 87%

After her boyfriend's school shooting, a girl's notebook of grudges turns her into a suspect.

by Jennifer Brown 2009

4.00

67k+ ratings

🏫 School Shooting Aftermath 💔 Survivor'S Guilt 🎨 Healing Through Art

Things in Nature Merely Grow

by Yiyun Li • 2025

The worst loss has no name. After both sons die by suicide, a novelist inhabits it.

4.34

15k+

👼 Child Loss 🖤 Suicide Loss 🌀 Grief Without Closure

Things in Nature Merely Grow 87%

The worst loss has no name. After both sons die by suicide, a novelist inhabits it.

by Yiyun Li 2025

4.34

15k+ ratings

👼 Child Loss 🖤 Suicide Loss 🌀 Grief Without Closure

The Forgotten Highlander

by Alistair Urquhart • 2010

Death Railway, hellship, Nagasaki. A Scottish soldier breaks his silence to demand Japan atone.

4.54

6k+

🏯 Japanese Pow Camps 🌊 Pacific War Theatre ⛏️ Forced Labor

The Forgotten Highlander 87%

Death Railway, hellship, Nagasaki. A Scottish soldier breaks his silence to demand Japan atone.

by Alistair Urquhart 2010

4.54

6k+ ratings

🏯 Japanese Pow Camps 🌊 Pacific War Theatre ⛏️ Forced Labor

What Is the What

by Dave Eggers • 2006

Robbed in Atlanta, a Sudanese refugee escapes into the war-torn villages and camps of his past.

4.15

88k+

🎤 Fictionalized Memoir 🏃 Refugee Survival Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

What Is the What 87%

Robbed in Atlanta, a Sudanese refugee escapes into the war-torn villages and camps of his past.

by Dave Eggers 2006

4.15

88k+ ratings

🎤 Fictionalized Memoir 🏃 Refugee Survival Story 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family

Boy Meets Depression

by Kevin Breel • 2015

Hobbs Street looked normal from the outside. Inside, a kid was falling apart.

3.82

873

🧠 Teenage Depression 💔 Suicidal Ideation 🏠 Childhood Loneliness

Boy Meets Depression 87%

Hobbs Street looked normal from the outside. Inside, a kid was falling apart.

by Kevin Breel 2015

3.82

873 ratings

🧠 Teenage Depression 💔 Suicidal Ideation 🏠 Childhood Loneliness

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl • 1946

Auschwitz revealed that meaning, not pleasure or power, is what keeps human beings alive.

4.37

896k+

📖 Holocaust Testimony 🧠 Existential Psychology 💪 Resilience

Man's Search for Meaning 87%

Auschwitz revealed that meaning, not pleasure or power, is what keeps human beings alive.

by Viktor E. Frankl 1946

4.37

896k+ ratings

📖 Holocaust Testimony 🧠 Existential Psychology 💪 Resilience

A Horse Walks into a Bar

by David Grossman • 2014

A comic's set becomes confession, witnessed by a boyhood friend who once stood by and watched.

3.51

16k+

📖 Confessional Fiction 🕯️ Holocaust Legacy 😔 Childhood Guilt

A Horse Walks into a Bar 87%

A comic's set becomes confession, witnessed by a boyhood friend who once stood by and watched.

by David Grossman 2014

3.51

16k+ ratings

📖 Confessional Fiction 🕯️ Holocaust Legacy 😔 Childhood Guilt

Scars Like Wings

by Erin Stewart • 2019

A fire orphaned her. Her scars made her a spectacle. High school demands she be seen.

4.05

7k+

🩹 Visible Difference 🎭 School Theater 💔 Survivor'S Guilt

Scars Like Wings 87%

A fire orphaned her. Her scars made her a spectacle. High school demands she be seen.

by Erin Stewart 2019

4.05

7k+ ratings

🩹 Visible Difference 🎭 School Theater 💔 Survivor'S Guilt

Good Grief

by Theresa Caputo • 2017

Your dead loved ones are still here. A famous medium shows you how to notice their signs.

4.12

943

🕊️ Grief And Loss 🔮 Spiritual Mediumship ✨ Modern Spiritualism

Good Grief 87%

Your dead loved ones are still here. A famous medium shows you how to notice their signs.

by Theresa Caputo 2017

4.12

943 ratings

🕊️ Grief And Loss 🔮 Spiritual Mediumship ✨ Modern Spiritualism

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

by Noah Hawley • 2016

A jet crashes. A painter saves a child. Heroism becomes suspicion under the media's glare.

3.72

133k+

🌊 Literary Thriller 📺 Media Satire 🦸 Reluctant Hero

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley 87%

A jet crashes. A painter saves a child. Heroism becomes suspicion under the media's glare.

by Noah Hawley 2016

3.72

133k+ ratings

🌊 Literary Thriller 📺 Media Satire 🦸 Reluctant Hero

Home

by Toni Morrison • 2012

Escaping a psych ward, a veteran crosses the Jim Crow South to rescue his dying sister.

3.83

29k+

🏚️ Jim Crow South 💔 Survivor'S Guilt 🛡️ Sibling Protector

Home 87%

Escaping a psych ward, a veteran crosses the Jim Crow South to rescue his dying sister.

by Toni Morrison 2012

3.83

29k+ ratings

🏚️ Jim Crow South 💔 Survivor'S Guilt 🛡️ Sibling Protector

A Marriage at Sea

by Sophie Elmhirst • 2024

When a whale sinks your boat, survival depends on who's in the raft with you.

3.81

62k+

🛟 Survival At Sea 💍 Marriage Memoir ⛵ Sailing Adventure

A Marriage at Sea 87%

When a whale sinks your boat, survival depends on who's in the raft with you.

by Sophie Elmhirst 2024

3.81

62k+ ratings

🛟 Survival At Sea 💍 Marriage Memoir ⛵ Sailing Adventure

First They Killed My Father

by Loung Ung • 2000

Cambodia, 1975: a five-year-old loses all to the Khmer Rouge and becomes a child soldier to survive.

4.36

55k+

💀 Cambodian Genocide 🪖 War Memoir 👧 Child Survivor

First They Killed My Father 87%

Cambodia, 1975: a five-year-old loses all to the Khmer Rouge and becomes a child soldier to survive.

by Loung Ung 2000

4.36

55k+ ratings

💀 Cambodian Genocide 🪖 War Memoir 👧 Child Survivor

My Next Breath

by Jeremy Renner • 2025

Heart rate: 18. Collapsed lung. Broken ribs. Forty-five minutes of manual breathing on ice.

4.15

42k+

🏔️ Survival Memoirs 💫 Near-Death Experiences 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

My Next Breath 87%

Heart rate: 18. Collapsed lung. Broken ribs. Forty-five minutes of manual breathing on ice.

by Jeremy Renner 2025

4.15

42k+ ratings

🏔️ Survival Memoirs 💫 Near-Death Experiences 🏛️ Modern Stoicism

AMERN WIFE

by Taya Kyle • 2015

The American Sniper's widow on grief, sudden fame, and the courtroom fight for his legacy.

4.27

5k+

🪖 Military Spouses 🕊️ Grief Memoir 📰 Public Widowhood

AMERN WIFE 87%

The American Sniper's widow on grief, sudden fame, and the courtroom fight for his legacy.

by Taya Kyle 2015

4.27

5k+ ratings

🪖 Military Spouses 🕊️ Grief Memoir 📰 Public Widowhood

Knife

by Salman Rushdie • 2024

A knife onstage. One eye gone. Thirty-three years after the fatwa, he writes back.

3.98

29k+

🩹 Trauma Memoir ✍️ Literary Memoir 🗽 Free Speech

Knife 87%

A knife onstage. One eye gone. Thirty-three years after the fatwa, he writes back.

by Salman Rushdie 2024

3.98

29k+ ratings

🩹 Trauma Memoir ✍️ Literary Memoir 🗽 Free Speech

The House of My Mother

by Shari Franke • 2025

Millions watched her family online. No one saw what her mother did when the camera stopped.

4.27

216k+

⛪ Religious Trauma 💔 Emotional Abuse 📖 Survivor Memoir

The House of My Mother 87%

Millions watched her family online. No one saw what her mother did when the camera stopped.

by Shari Franke 2025

4.27

216k+ ratings

⛪ Religious Trauma 💔 Emotional Abuse 📖 Survivor Memoir

The Boy on the Wooden Box

by Leon Leyson • 2013

Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.

4.38

30k+

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivor 🧱 Ghetto Life

The Boy on the Wooden Box 87%

Youngest on Schindler's list, he needed a wooden box just to reach the factory levers.

by Leon Leyson 2013

4.38

30k+ ratings

🕯️ Holocaust Memoirs 👦 Child Survivor 🧱 Ghetto Life

More Beautiful Than Before

by Steve Leder • 2017

Suffering is guaranteed. The humility, forgiveness, and connection that transform it are not.

4.30

1k+

🔥 Transformative Suffering 🕯️ Grief And Loss ✡️ Jewish Wisdom

More Beautiful Than Before 87%

Suffering is guaranteed. The humility, forgiveness, and connection that transform it are not.

by Steve Leder 2017

4.30

1k+ ratings

🔥 Transformative Suffering 🕯️ Grief And Loss ✡️ Jewish Wisdom

Castaway

by Lucy Irvine • 1983

A visa marriage, a deserted island, a year alone. The real survival test? Each other.

3.76

871

🏝️ Castaway Narratives 🧠 Isolation Psychology 🆘 Survival Psychology

Castaway 87%

A visa marriage, a deserted island, a year alone. The real survival test? Each other.

by Lucy Irvine 1983

3.76

871 ratings

🏝️ Castaway Narratives 🧠 Isolation Psychology 🆘 Survival Psychology

The Only Survivors

by Megan Miranda • 2023

When a dead survivor's phone surfaces at the annual reunion, Cassidy discovers someone is watching.

3.54

90k+

🔍 Psychological Suspense 😔 Survivor Guilt 🤝 Trauma-Bonded Friends

The Only Survivors 87%

When a dead survivor's phone surfaces at the annual reunion, Cassidy discovers someone is watching.

by Megan Miranda 2023

3.54

90k+ ratings

🔍 Psychological Suspense 😔 Survivor Guilt 🤝 Trauma-Bonded Friends

Miracle in the Andes

by Nando Parrado • 2006

Sixty days trapped in the Andes. One promise. A ten-day trek without gear to find help.

4.37

27k+

📖 Survival Memoir 🏔️ Andes Plane Crash ⛏️ Extreme Survival

Miracle in the Andes 87%

Sixty days trapped in the Andes. One promise. A ten-day trek without gear to find help.

by Nando Parrado 2006

4.37

27k+ ratings

📖 Survival Memoir 🏔️ Andes Plane Crash ⛏️ Extreme Survival

In the Presence of My Enemies

by Gracia Burnham • 2003

Captured by Abu Sayyaf on their 18th anniversary, she survived 376 days. Her husband did not.

4.30

8k+

🎒 Missionary Memoirs 🔗 Hostage Survival ✝️ Faith Under Persecution

In the Presence of My Enemies 87%

Captured by Abu Sayyaf on their 18th anniversary, she survived 376 days. Her husband did not.

by Gracia Burnham 2003

4.30

8k+ ratings

🎒 Missionary Memoirs 🔗 Hostage Survival ✝️ Faith Under Persecution

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