Resilience Books
Books centered on resilience tell stories of people enduring hardship and finding ways to carry on. These narratives focus not on easy triumphs but on the unglamorous, day-by-day work of surviving loss, adversity, or systemic injustice and refusing to be defined by it.
52 books
Memoir
A Child Called It
Memoir
A House in the Sky
Non-Fiction
Alive
Non-Fiction
Educated
Memoir
Heavy
Literary Fiction
Homegoing
Memoir
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Literary Fiction
James
Non-Fiction
Killers of the Flower Moon
Science Fiction
Kindred
Historical Fiction
Les Misérables
Historical Fiction
Lessons in Chemistry
Historical Fiction
Lonesome Dove
Non-Fiction
Never Finished
Historical Fiction
Pachinko
Science Fiction
Parable of the Sower
Young Adult
Rain Reign
Romance
Reminders of Him
Non-Fiction
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Horror
Roses
Contemporary Fiction
Run Rose Run
Romance
Safe Haven
Historical Fiction
Schindler's List
Survival in Auschwitz
Mystery
The Bandit Queens
Historical Fiction
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Comfort Crisis
Non-Fiction
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Memoir
The Glass Castle
Memoir
The Last Lecture
Non-Fiction
The Librarian of Auschwitz
Romance
The Librarian of Boone's Hollow
Self-Help
The Light We Carry
Horror
The Long Run
Non-Fiction
The Map of Salt and Stars
Non-Fiction
The Murmur of Bees
Historical Fiction
The Nickel Boys
Literary Fiction
The Night Watchman
Historical Fiction
The Nightingale
The Old Man and the Sea
Historical Fiction
The Only Woman in the Room
Non-Fiction
The Orchardist
The Oysterville Sewing Circle
Non-Fiction
The Paris Architect
Non-Fiction
The Personal Librarian
Historical Fiction
The Physician
Historical Fiction
The Pillars of the Earth
Literary Fiction
The Poisonwood Bible
Memoir
The Radium Girls
Memoir
The Sound of Gravel
Memoir
Ultramarathon Man
