Read-alikes and related books

Books like Crash

Across Boys & Men, Survival Stories, Science & Nature, and People & Places — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Crash by Joseph Monninger.

Boys & Men Survival Stories Science & Nature People & Places United States Action & Adventure Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to Crash

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Crash.

Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina

Rodman Philbrick

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

Treasure Tracks

S.A. Rodriguez

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

I Escaped The World’s Deadliest Shark Attack The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis, WW2, I Escaped Book 3

Scott Peters

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

The Sign of the Beaver

Elizabeth George Speare

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • People & Places

Hide and Seek

Katy Grant

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • People & Places

Ground Zero A Novel of 9/11

Alan Gratz

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • People & Places

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch

Jean Lee Latham

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • People & Places

Flaming Arrows

William O. Steele

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • People & Places

The Moffats

Eleanor Estes

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • People & Places

#10

The Deep Enders A Novel (for Young Adults)

Dave Reardon

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • People & Places

#11

Great Escapes #5 Terror in the Tower of London

W. N. Brown

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#12

Overboard!

Terry Lynn Johnson

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#13

Another Kind of Hurricane

Tamara Ellis Smith

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#14

Stranded

Nikki Shannon Smith

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#15

Lily and the Great Quake A San Francisco Earthquake Survival Story

Veeda Bybee

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#16

Willa of Dark Hollow

Robert Beatty

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#17

Great Escapes #4 Survival in the Wilderness

Steven Otfinoski

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#18

Survival in the Wilderness

Steven Otfinoski

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#19

The Lost Rainforest #3 Rumi’s Riddle

Eliot Schrefer

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#20

Island of the Blue Dolphins — Scott O’Dell

Scott O'Dell

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#21

Dust Storm!

Terry Lynn Johnson

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#22

Terror at Bottle Creek

Watt Key

Themes: Boys & Men • Survival Stories • Science & Nature

#23

Carrie and the Great Storm A Galveston Hurricane Survival Story

Jessica Gunderson

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

#24

The Lost Whale

Hannah Gold

Themes: Survival Stories • Science & Nature • People & Places

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Crash by Joseph Monninger. Connected by Boys & Men, Survival Stories, Science & Nature. Authors featured include Rodman Philbrick, S.A. Rodriguez, Scott Peters, Elizabeth George Speare, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.