21 must-read nonfiction books like Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival by Eric Lindner

Cover of Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival by Eric Lindner

Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

By: Eric Lindner

4.18

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival by Eric Lindner , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Heather, the Totality by Matthew Weiner

1. Heather, the Totality

By: Matthew Weiner

2.92

Format: 144 pages, ebook

The Breakstone family arrange themselves around their daughter Heather, and the world seems to foll… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Weiner's Heather, the Totality book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

Cover of Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives by Eugene H. Peterson, Richard A. Swenson

2. Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives

By: Eugene H. Peterson , Richard A. Swenson

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Margin is the space that once existed between ourselves and our limits. Today we use margin just to… read more

Similar categories in Eugene H. Peterson's Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado by Holly Bailey

3. The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado

By: Holly Bailey

4.14

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

“A gripping, heartbreaking and heartwarming account of the monster tornado that ravaged Moore, Okla… read more

Similar categories in Holly Bailey's The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • survival
"Outside the rain began to pour in sheets, and the wind howled . Giant pieces of hail began to pelt the building— banging off the skylights so hard that Simpson worried the glass might shatter. Then, …"

-Holly Bailey, The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado

Cover of Third Watch (Tracy Crosswhite, #0.5) by Robert Dugoni

4. Third Watch (Tracy Crosswhite, #0.5)

By: Robert Dugoni

3.98

Format: 350 pages,

Tracy Crosswhite's ordinary night patrolling her Seattle beat becomes front page news when she resp… read more

Similar categories in Robert Dugoni's Third Watch (Tracy Crosswhite, #0.5) book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

5. Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop

By: Carol Shaben

4.75

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was s… read more

Similar categories in Carol Shaben's Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

6. The List: A Novella (Slough House, #2.5)

By: Mick Herron

3.00

Format: 282 pages, ebook

Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. De… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The List: A Novella (Slough House, #2.5) book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

7. The Great Hurricane: 1938

By: Cherie Burns

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

On the night of September 21,1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Th… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Burns's The Great Hurricane: 1938 book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

8. Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea

By: Michael J. Tougias

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, "Fatal Forecast" is a spellbinding moment-by-momen… read more

Similar categories in Michael J. Tougias's Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

Cover of Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford

9. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • nonfiction
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

10. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

Similar categories in Hampton Sides's The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

11. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Cover of Extinction by Douglas Preston

12. Extinction

By: Douglas Preston

4.14

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand–acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, … read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's Extinction book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

"If something can be done, it will be done-no matter how dangerous."

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception." Carl Sagan, in Extinction by Douglas Preston"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

"You actually think we want to be like you? You Sapiens, with your bleak and apocalyptic history? What a grim and self-loathing species you are! Look at what you worship as progress. The agricultural …"

-Douglas Preston, Extinction

Cover of Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins by Annie Jacobsen

13. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.30

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored ass… read more

Similar categories in Annie Jacobsen's Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of This Is What Happened by Mick Herron

14. This Is What Happened

By: Mick Herron

3.42

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense a… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's This Is What Happened book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

Cover of Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn

15. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II by Alex Kershaw

16. Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II

By: Alex Kershaw

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From Alex Kershaw, author of the New York Times bestseller Against All Odds, comes an epic story of… read more

Similar categories in Alex Kershaw's Patton's Prayer: A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Victory in World War II book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Strike of the Sailfish: Two Sister Submarines and the Sinking of a Japanese Aircraft Carrier by Stephen L. Moore

17. Strike of the Sailfish: Two Sister Submarines and the Sinking of a Japanese Aircraft Carrier

By: Stephen L. Moore

4.14

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping true-life thriller about the first US submarine to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier—and … read more

Similar categories in Stephen L. Moore's Strike of the Sailfish: Two Sister Submarines and the Sinking of a Japanese Aircraft Carrier book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew  Campbell

18. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

By: Matthew Campbell

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Campbell's Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love by Rebecca  Frankel

19. Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

By: Rebecca Frankel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A 2021 National Jewish Book Award Finalist One of Smithsonian Magazine 's Best History Books of 202… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Frankel's Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow

20. Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

By: Richard Snow

3.97

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece Califor… read more

Similar categories in Richard Snow's Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff

21. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.59

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more

Similar categories in Garrett M. Graff's When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan Before Pearl Harbor by Sam Kleiner

22. The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan Before Pearl Harbor

By: Sam Kleiner

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s d… read more

Similar categories in Sam Kleiner's The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan Before Pearl Harbor book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • aviation
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul by Scott W. Berg

23. The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul

By: Scott W. Berg

3.76

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • The "illuminating" ( New Yorker ) story o… read more

Similar categories in Scott W. Berg's The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Buying Disney's World: The Story of How Florida Swampland Became Walt Disney World by Aaron H. Goldberg

24. Buying Disney's World: The Story of How Florida Swampland Became Walt Disney World

By: Aaron H. Goldberg

4.03

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

In November of 1965, after numerous months of speculation surrounding a mystery industry that had b… read more

Similar categories in Aaron H. Goldberg's Buying Disney's World: The Story of How Florida Swampland Became Walt Disney World book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945 by Florian Huber

25. Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945

By: Florian Huber

4.08

Format: None pages, None

In 1945, as the army retreated, the German people were surrendered to the enemy with no means of de… read more

Similar categories in Florian Huber's Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans in 1945 book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of All Present and Accounted For: The 1972 Alaska Grounding of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis and the Heroic Efforts that Saved the Ship by Steven J. Craig

26. All Present and Accounted For: The 1972 Alaska Grounding of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis and the Heroic Efforts that Saved the Ship

By: Steven J. Craig

4.08

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

It was late November—one of the coldest periods to be on a ship near Alaska. The Coast Guard Cutter… read more

Similar categories in Steven J. Craig's All Present and Accounted For: The 1972 Alaska Grounding of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Jarvis and the Heroic Efforts that Saved the Ship book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • history
Cover of Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival by Eric Lindner

27. Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

By: Eric Lindner

4.18

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the… read more

Similar categories in Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • aviation
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • survival
Cover of Lies I Taught in Medical School: How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life by Robert Lufkin

28. Lies I Taught in Medical School: How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life

By: Robert Lufkin

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Modern medicine is lying to you. Discover the true science behind chronic diseases—and implement an… read more

Similar categories in Robert Lufkin's Lies I Taught in Medical School: How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • nonfiction
Cover of My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover (Part of the Africa Tales Series) by Teresa O'Kane

29. My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover (Part of the Africa Tales Series)

By: Teresa O'Kane

4.69

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A story of love, loss, and Land Rovers. Travel from Cape Town to Northern Kenya and back with the a… read more

Similar categories in Teresa O'Kane's My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover (Part of the Africa Tales Series) book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • nonfiction
Cover of Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life by David L. Bahnsen

30. Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life

By: David L. Bahnsen

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

We were created to work, and our work provides unique meaning and purpose in our lives. Yet today w… read more

Similar categories in David L. Bahnsen's Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Marylebone Drop (Slough House, #5.5) by Mick Herron

31. The Marylebone Drop (Slough House, #5.5)

By: Mick Herron

3.92

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelop… read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The Marylebone Drop (Slough House, #5.5) book and Eric Lindner's Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival

17 Best history books like Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival by Eric Lindner

Transform Your Habits

The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado

Holly Bailey

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins

Annie Jacobsen

4.30

View all the books

19 best-selling history books like The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan Before Pearl Harbor by Sam Kleiner

Transform Your Habits

Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter

Steven Rinella

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

Michael Pillsbury

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight

Winston Groom

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

David E. Hoffman

4.16

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.