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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.17 — 238,585 ratings — published 2023
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,785,982 ratings — published 2001
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,958 ratings — published 2000
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.13 — 167,490 ratings — published 2015
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.68 — 338,588 ratings — published 1719
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,854 ratings — published 2024
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.10 — 30,908 ratings — published 1955
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,668 ratings — published 1997
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,837 ratings — published 2007
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,705 ratings — published 2002
The Lifeboat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.20 — 25,605 ratings — published 2012
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.47 — 179,072 ratings — published 1959
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,309,285 ratings — published 1954
Jamrach's Menagerie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.58 — 8,120 ratings — published 2011
The Swiss Family Robinson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.91 — 111,207 ratings — published 1812
Surviving Savannah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.16 — 31,970 ratings — published 2021
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,151 ratings — published 2014
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 6 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.73 — 139,825 ratings — published 1896
Shadow Divers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.38 — 38,443 ratings — published 2004
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.57 — 634,120 ratings — published 1851
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.49 — 17,530 ratings — published 2025
Surviving Raine (Surviving Raine, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.00 — 15,334 ratings — published 2013
Shipwreck (Island, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,088 ratings — published 2001
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,568 ratings — published 2004
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,074 ratings — published 2021
Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,540 ratings — published 2022
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,719 ratings — published 1998
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,171 ratings — published 2000
Baby Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,713 ratings — published 1937
Batavia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,153 ratings — published 2011
The Lightkeeper (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,286 ratings — published 1997
Beau Crusoe (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,029 ratings — published 2007
Relato de un náufrago (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,106 ratings — published 1970
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,356 ratings — published 2026
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,539 ratings — published 2022
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,855 ratings — published 2021
Does It Hurt? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.88 — 287,181 ratings — published 2022
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.09 — 78,716 ratings — published 2007
Lovewrecked (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,094 ratings — published 2020
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,218 ratings — published 2019
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,365 ratings — published 2018
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,494 ratings — published 2003
Escape (Island, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,460 ratings — published 2001
The Living (The Living, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,310 ratings — published 2013
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.78 — 234,315 ratings — published 1611
Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.97 — 372 ratings — published 1972
Imagine (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,358 ratings — published 1995
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.15 — 21,475 ratings — published 1986
The Cay (The Cay, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.80 — 38,956 ratings — published 1969
Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.11 — 38,895 ratings — published 2008
“The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.”
― Under Milk Wood
― Under Milk Wood
“Life is, in itself and forever, shipwreck. To be shipwrecked is not to drown. The poor human being, feeling himself sinking into the abyss, moves his arms to keep afloat. This movement of the arms which is his reaction against his own destruction is culture - a swimming stroke...”
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