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Adventure/Survival/Disaster
Places in Between
by Rory Stewart
Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by Sebastian Junger
Polar Dream
by Helen Thayer
In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
by Doug Stanton
Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration
by Fergus Fleming
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard
In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whale ship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Touching the Void
by Joe Simpson
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Aron Ralston
No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic Journey Across of Antarctica
by Liv Arnesen
Last River: The Tragic Race for Shangri-la
by Todd Balf
Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
by Anatoli Boukreev
3000 Degrees: The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
by Sean Flynn
Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey
by Linda Greenlaw
Magnetic North: Trek Across Canada
by David Haley
Desert Sojourn: A Woman’s Forty Days and Nights Alone
by Debi Holmes-Binney
Running Amazon
by Joe Kane
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
by Gary Kinder
Shadow Divers: The True Adventures of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
by Robert Kurson
Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by Erik Larson
Cry of the Kalahari
by Mark Owens
Winerdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
by Gary Paulsen
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Crossing Antarctica
by Will Steger
Polar Dream
by Helen Thayer
Left for Dead: My Journey Home From Everest
by Beck Weathers
Mapmakers Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
by Robert Whitaker
Johnstown Flood
by David McCullough
Circus Fire: A True Story
by Stewart O’Nan
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by Caroline Alexander
Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
by Jennifer Niven
Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
by Peter Maas