A book I read quite recently is Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.  This book is quite a fast read, but is very intense.
This book is about a 13 Year old city boy named Brian, which is visiting his father in the Canadian wilderness. When his pilot suddenly starts to have massive breathing and heart problems and the plane begins to go down Brian realises that deep trouble. When the plane crashes he has to survive 54 days of intense Canadian wilderness heat, plus he has to gather his own food and water from resources around him.  He encounters a lot of distractions during the period of the 54 days he is stuck out there for, for example - a grizzly bear encounter that nearly killed Brian, a porcupine that came into his hut and when a moose almost broke his whole body.
Reading this book made me realise that we take a lot of things for granted around us. For example us having electric heating and gas heating, Brian had to light a fire himself without any off those new lighters or anything, it took him quite a while to do this too, another example is that we take shelter for granted, Brian realised once he crashed into a lake he would have to make his own house/hut.
I feel that this book is one of my best book’s I have read. It was very intense and shows the details of what it would be like if you are in the Canadian wilderness alone with no other people to assist/help you. I believe that once Brian had been rescued he would have realised he has been taking a lot of things for granted e.g a cheeseburger. You can’t just go and make one out in the wilderness.