Sailing


Sailing Alone around the World
The Long Way
A Voyage for Madmen
Maiden Voyage
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Sailing a Serious Ocean (CREATIVE MATH SUPPLEMENT)
Dove: An Extraordinary Around-the-World Adventure―The Solo Voyage of Five Years and 33,000 Miles
World of My Own
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing
The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising
World Cruising Routes, 5th Edition
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by AviThe Beast of Cretacea by Todd StrasserBloody Jack by L.A. MeyerPirates! by Celia ReesBoston Jane by Jennifer L. Holm
Seafaring Middle Graders
162 books — 49 voters
Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica PenningtonComing Up for Air by Miranda KenneallyPuberty Blues by Kathy LetteThe Commodore's Cup by Stephen W. MeaderGirls Can't Do It by Peter Filichia
YA Swimming, Surfing, and Sailing
31 books — 5 voters

Treasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Best Classic Adventure Novels
23 books — 17 voters
The Orb and the Airship by Jenelle Leanne SchmidtThe Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim  ButcherThe Orb and the Airship by Jenelle Leanne SchmidtStardust by Neil GaimanMagonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
Flying Ships and Air Pirates
172 books — 31 voters

Secrets of the Realm by Bev StoutThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James FaroThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James FaroThe Code by James FaroHomecoming by James Faro
Best Sea/Treasure Adventure Novels
32 books — 36 voters
Into the Sunken City by Dinesh ThiruPandora by Joshua GrantThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James FaroThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James FaroThe Code by James Faro
Best Sea Adventure Novels
40 books — 45 voters

Michael Morpurgo
That's what sailing is, a dance, and your partner is the sea. And with the sea you never take liberties. You ask her, you don't tell her. You have to remember always that she's the leader, not you. You and your boat are dancing to her tune. ...more
Michael Morpurgo, Alone on a Wide Wide Sea

Susan Wiggs
She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.
Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

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