Maritime

Maritime fiction has several names - Nautical Fiction, Naval Fiction, Sea Fiction, Sea Stories or Naval Adventure Fiction. It is a genre of literature with a setting at or near the sea, focusing on human relationships to the sea and sea voyages. Nautical culture is highlighted. The settings vary widely, including merchant ships, liners, naval ships, sea ports, etc.

Maritime fiction may focus on oceanic wildlife such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851), or fantasy creatures and legends such as the Mermaid or Kraken.

Common themes include the sub-genres Shipwreck and Pirates.

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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Sea Captain's Wife
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Quantum Tempest (The Oregon Files #19)
North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow (Dirk Pitt #27)
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier (The Oregon Files Book #18)
Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury (NUMA Files #20)
Hellburner (Oregon Files #16)
Dark Vector (NUMA Files, #19)
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Treasure Island
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Moby-Dick by Herman MelvilleJaws by Peter BenchleyRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Odyssey by HomerA Night to Remember by Walter Lord
The Sea Is Calling ...
64 books — 10 voters
Under the Black Flag by David CordinglyTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMoby-Dick by Herman MelvilleIf a Pirate I Must Be by Richard   SandersMarco Polo by Martin J. Hollenberg
Best Maritime Books
24 books — 11 voters

The Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyRed Storm Rising by Tom ClancyDas Boot by Lothar-Günther BuchheimMigrant Crisis by John   SteelVoyage of the Devilfish by Michael DiMercurio
Best Submarine Thrillers
137 books — 108 voters
Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. JamesThe Woman in Black by Susan         HillGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Phyllis FraserThe Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith WhartonBloody Ghost Stories by Brianna Stoddard
Ghost Story Collections
167 books — 48 voters

The Last Tale of Norah Bow by J.P. WhiteHard Aground . . . Again by Eddie       JonesThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesHard Aground with Eddie Jones by Eddie       JonesDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       Jones
Best Books for Sailors
57 books — 25 voters


Do not make alcohol your priest. It gives confession and keeps the sins.
Goran Petrović, Raccoon Face: And Other Truths

Herman Melville
[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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