Books Like Dead Wake

Loved Dead Wake by Erik Larson? If its nonfiction, history and ocean and ships hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster and The Radium Girls. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Dead Wake: Nonfiction · History · Ocean and Ships · World War I · World War I History

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Julian Sancton

Ocean and Ships · History · Military History · Nonfiction · Plot-Driven

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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham

History · Nonfiction · Tragic · Tense and Suspenseful · Multiple POV

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The Radium Girls
Kate Moore

History · World War I History · Nonfiction · Tragic · Ensemble Cast

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The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre

History · Nonfiction · Tense and Suspenseful · Plot-Driven · Diplomatic History

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Spitfires
Becky Aikman

Military History · History · Nonfiction · Ensemble Cast

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Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
Eugene Finkel

History · Military History · Nonfiction · Diplomatic History · Intense

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Fall of Giants
Ken Follett

World War I · Ensemble Cast · Plot-Driven · Multiple POV · Emotional

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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
Tom Reiss

Military History · History · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism · Political Intrigue

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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin

History · Nonfiction · Plot-Driven · Tense and Suspenseful · Presidential History

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Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Lisa Rogak

History · Military History · Nonfiction · Espionage History · Investigative Journalism

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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
Brian Hicks

Ocean and Ships · History · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism

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Threshing Day
Rebecca Yarros

Tense and Suspenseful · Ensemble Cast · Plot-Driven · Multiple POV · Survival Story

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One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein
Whitney Alyse Webb

History · Nonfiction · Presidential History · Diplomatic History · Espionage History

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Crooked Kingdom
Leigh Bardugo

Plot-Driven · Tense and Suspenseful · Ensemble Cast · Multiple POV · Political Intrigue

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The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene, Joost Elffers

Military History · History · Nonfiction

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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton

Tense and Suspenseful · Ensemble Cast · Plot-Driven · Multiple POV · Intense

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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson

History · Nonfiction · Multiple POV · Investigative Journalism · Emotional

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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank

Nonfiction · Tragic · History · Survival Story · Haunting

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Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman

Tense and Suspenseful · Short Chapters · Plot-Driven · Ensemble Cast · Survival Story

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Kiss the Girls
James Patterson

Tense and Suspenseful · Short Chapters · Plot-Driven · Multiple POV · Intense

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