Survival Books to Read Free Online

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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

The full library classification — every book has exactly one, more granular than Genre. Different counts for a same-named bucket here vs. Genre reflect two different systems, not an error.

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Featured — award winners and classics first, when available. Use “Show different books” for a new selection.

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Life of Pi

Yann Martel

2001 ★ 3.9

Watership Down

Richard Adams

1973 ★ 4.2

Tunnel in the sky

Robert A. Heinlein

1977 ★ 4.2

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

2006 ★ 3.9

The White Darkness

Geraldine McCaughrean

2006

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

2016 ★ 4.2

The Bunker Diary

Kevin Brooks

2013 ★ 4.2

Uprooted

Naomi Novik

2015 ★ 4.2

Julie of the Wolves

Jean Craighead George

1972 ★ 4.5

Rabbit hill

Robert Lawson

1944 ★ 4.5

Robinson Crusoe

Petrus Borel, N. C. Wyeth, Les éditions du Rey et al.

1686 ★ 3.9

White Fang

Jack London

1906 ★ 4.0

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

1778 ★ 3.9

The Cay

Theodore Taylor

1977 ★ 3.9

The Postman

David Brin

1985 ★ 3.8

Unwind

Neal Shusterman

2007 ★ 4.1

Once upon a river

Diane Setterfield

2019 ★ 4.6

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Suzanne Collins

2020 ★ 4.3

Garden of Lies

Jayne Ann Krentz

2015 ★ 3.8

Beauty Queens

Libba Bray

2011 ★ 3.6

The Enemy (The Enemy #1)

Charles Higson

2009 ★ 4.3

The dog stars

Peter Heller

2012 ★ 3.9

Alive!

Piers Paul Read

1974 ★ 3.8

Flesh & bone

Jonathan Maberry

2012 ★ 4.0

Nation

Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs

2008 ★ 4.0

City of thieves

David Benioff

2008 ★ 4.1

Malka Mai

Mirjam Pressler

2002 ★ 5.0

The City of Mirrors

Justin Cronin

2016 ★ 4.6

The Mayflower Project

Katherine Applegate

2001 ★ 4.3

The end of the world running club

Walker, Adrian J. (Suspense fiction writer)

2017 ★ 2.3

Browse free books to read online

Book Explorer lets readers browse the free, readable part of the Open Library catalogue by familiar genres, or by the exact subject tags Open Library assigns each book. Every book has its own page with a reader where one is available, plus links to Open Library, your library, Libby and Amazon.