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Survival
Fiction or non-fiction book focusing on a person or group of people who must brave the elements, natural disasters, weather or other circumstances in order to survive. A theme common when people are shipwrecked or survive plane crashes. Survival can also be in books where society has crumbled or deteriorated and people must survive the changed world in isolated groups.
![Han Kang](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612962456i/4119155._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
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The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but fa
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― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian
![Betty Smith](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1238556081i/2327917._UX200_CR0,55,200,200_.jpg)
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Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's growing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it strong. My children will be strong that way.
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― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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