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The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as sea)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,366,643 ratings — published 1952
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as sea)
avg rating 3.57 — 632,639 ratings — published 1851
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as sea)
avg rating 3.89 — 283,589 ratings — published 1869
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as sea)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,683 ratings — published 2000
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as sea)
avg rating 3.85 — 553,448 ratings — published 1882
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as sea)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,600 ratings — published 1969
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as sea)
avg rating 4.17 — 236,068 ratings — published 2023
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as sea)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,783,345 ratings — published 2001
To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as sea)
avg rating 3.70 — 213,705 ratings — published 2018
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as sea)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,345 ratings — published 2020
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as sea)
avg rating 3.92 — 249,258 ratings — published 2017
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as sea)
avg rating 4.09 — 78,410 ratings — published 2007
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as sea)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,148 ratings — published 1973
The Sea Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as sea)
avg rating 4.07 — 34,571 ratings — published 1904
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as sea)
avg rating 4.26 — 26,147 ratings — published 1972
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as sea)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,266,443 ratings — published -750
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as sea)
avg rating 3.68 — 337,975 ratings — published 1719
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as sea)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,545 ratings — published 1997
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 27 times as sea)
avg rating 4.35 — 19,049 ratings — published 1977
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as sea)
avg rating 4.46 — 178,027 ratings — published 1959
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as sea)
avg rating 4.24 — 89,289 ratings — published 2023
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as sea)
avg rating 4.18 — 20,006 ratings — published 1950
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as sea)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,450 ratings — published 2022
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 23 times as sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,644 ratings — published 1979
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sea)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,507 ratings — published 1899
House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as sea)
avg rating 3.89 — 117,804 ratings — published 2019
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as sea)
avg rating 4.30 — 327,555 ratings — published 2023
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as sea)
avg rating 4.13 — 167,071 ratings — published 2015
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 20 times as sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,894 ratings — published 1978
Daughter of the Siren Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #2)
by (shelved 19 times as sea)
avg rating 4.05 — 142,499 ratings — published 2018
All the Stars and Teeth (All the Stars and Teeth, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as sea)
avg rating 3.65 — 37,869 ratings — published 2020
The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
by (shelved 19 times as sea)
avg rating 4.40 — 14,586 ratings — published 1980
The Letter of Marque (Aubrey & Maturin, #12)
by (shelved 19 times as sea)
avg rating 4.50 — 12,346 ratings — published 1988
Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
by (shelved 19 times as sea)
avg rating 4.39 — 13,066 ratings — published 1983
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as sea)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,549,270 ratings — published 2022
The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey & Maturin, #11)
by (shelved 18 times as sea)
avg rating 4.43 — 11,320 ratings — published 1986
The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin, #14)
by (shelved 18 times as sea)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,769 ratings — published 1991
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 4.06 — 588,142 ratings — published 2025
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,860 ratings — published 2016
Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 3.20 — 20,152 ratings — published 1924
Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin, #20)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,785 ratings — published 1999
The Hundred Days (Aubrey & Maturin, #19)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,048 ratings — published 1998
The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,423 ratings — published 1981
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,949 ratings — published 1952
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as sea)
avg rating 4.46 — 25,769 ratings — published 2024
The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as sea)
avg rating 4.07 — 102,393 ratings — published 2022
The Thirteen-Gun Salute (Aubrey & Maturin, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as sea)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,607 ratings — published 1989
“It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
