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 Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
The Sea Captain's Wife
Quantum Tempest (The Oregon Files #19)
Captain's Dinner
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow (Dirk Pitt #27)
The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier (The Oregon Files Book #18)
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
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 Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Old Man and the Sea
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayKon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlJaws by Peter BenchleyPoseidon’s Children by Michael  WestThe Odyssey by Homer
The Sea
129 books — 36 voters
Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleMaster & Commander by Patrick O'BrianTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThe Odyssey by Homer
Nautical Tales
813 books — 407 voters

RMS Queen Mary 50 Years of Splendour by David F. HutchingsThe Queens of the North Atlantic by Robert LaceyRMS Queen Mary by Andrew   BrittonRMS Queen Mary; queen of the queens, by William James DuncanMasters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts
On Board the Queen Mary
6 books — 1 voter
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareSomething in the Water by Catherine SteadmanShipped by Angie HockmanThe Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart TurtonPrincess Charming by Jane Heller
Suspense At Sea
44 books — 14 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
For All the Tea in China by Sarah RoseCutty Sark by Eric KentleyCutty Sark by Eric KentleyDining Out with the Ice Giants by Clare O'BearaThe Clipper Ship by Frank  Knight
Cutty Sark
18 books — 5 voters


Robert V.S. Redick
“ Hercol was simply unwilling to kill. Tholjassans revere life, he had told Ott years ago, possibly the last time they had spoken. So do we, Ott had answered. But sometimes a knife in the dark is the only way to prove it. ”
― Robert V.S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy

“ There are no rogue ships; there are only rogue shipowners. ”
― Barista Uno, Maritime Double Shots

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