Books About Survivor Guilt: 6 Novels About the Ones Who Walked Away
Surviving is where these stories start. They're about what comes after: the silence, the debts between survivors, and the stories people agree to tell.
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1. The Boy Who Survived With Me On this site
by Simran Mehta
Mia and Lucas are the only two who walked away from a school bus crash that killed twenty-three children. Twenty years later the witnesses start dying, and the evidence points at Lucas.
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2. The Sweet Hereafter
by Russell Banks
A school bus crash empties a small town of its children. Told by the people left behind, including the girl who survived.
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3. Dear Edward
by Ann Napolitano
A twelve-year-old is the sole survivor of a plane crash, and has to learn how to live with being the one who stayed.
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4. Black-Eyed Susans
by Julia Heaberlin
The only survivor of a serial killer starts to doubt the testimony that put a man on death row.
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5. Final Girls
by Riley Sager
Three women who each survived a massacre, and what happens when one of them dies.
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6. We Were Liars
by E. Lockhart
A summer accident, a missing memory, and the guilt underneath a privileged family's silence.