Nautical

Nautical has many names, the most common choices being Maritime, Sea Fiction, and Sea Stories. Nautical refers to Nautical Fiction or Non-fictional accounts at sea.

This large theme can include man's relationship with the sea, sea creatures and monsters, natural disasters at sea, wartime memoirs, events at sea or with sea vessels such as submarines and life rafts. It also encompasses sea-related events such as survival crashes near or into oceans, being shipwrecked, pirates, or sea legends and myths.

Nautical culture is usually highly focused on, particularly with boats or sea life details. Thi
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
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 Sea Child
The Sea Captain's Wife
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
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Saltblood
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
Ultramarine
Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)
The Night That Finds Us All
Shackleton: A Biography
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Treasure Island
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
The Old Man and the Sea
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
Pirates! by Celia ReesThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       JonesSong of the Current by Sarah TolcserWhisper of the Tide by Sarah Tolcser
For Jacky Faber Lovers
78 books — 12 voters
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian JungerTitanic Love Stories by Gill PaulThe Discovery of the Titanic by Robert D. BallardTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonGhosts of the Abyss by Don  Lynch
Sea Adventures and Disasters
306 books — 76 voters

The Phantom Atlas by Edward Brooke-HitchingLost Islands by Henry StommelPhantom Islands of the Atlantic by Donald S. JohnsonNo Longer on the Map by Raymond H. RamsayThe Lost Land of Lemuria by Sumathi Ramaswamy
Phantom Islands
23 books — 1 voter
Six Frigates by Ian W. TollThe Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. HornfischerTwo Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.The Conquering Tide by Ian W. TollThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James Faro
Ten Best Naval & Nautical Books
48 books — 28 voters

Cathy Ostlere
Listen, Miss, boats are supposed to float. Even if they break up, they usually still float and show up on a shore somewhere. There have been no reports of wreckage or abandoned boats. At this point, no news is still good news. Don't worry. It's too early to worry. ...more
Cathy Ostlere, Lost: A Memoir

Patrick O'Brian
Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham. Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large. ...more
Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission

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