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The Sea Books
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.57 — 636,270 ratings — published 1851
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,379,361 ratings — published 1952
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,531 ratings — published 2000
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.16 — 242,150 ratings — published 2023
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,054 ratings — published 1969
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,289,877 ratings — published -800
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.47 — 180,698 ratings — published 1959
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,789,469 ratings — published 2001
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.85 — 556,124 ratings — published 1882
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,850 ratings — published 1997
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.88 — 285,176 ratings — published 1869
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.66 — 146,186 ratings — published 2022
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,915 ratings — published 1840
The Sea Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.07 — 34,896 ratings — published 1904
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.46 — 26,948 ratings — published 2024
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.13 — 168,135 ratings — published 2015
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.26 — 26,344 ratings — published 1972
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,345 ratings — published 1973
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.24 — 91,807 ratings — published 2023
The Sea, the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,140 ratings — published 1978
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,577 ratings — published 1899
Shadow Divers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.38 — 38,723 ratings — published 2004
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.35 — 19,188 ratings — published 1977
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.76 — 5,376 ratings — published 2010
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.97 — 63,986 ratings — published 1798
We, the Drowned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,846 ratings — published 2006
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.18 — 20,144 ratings — published 1950
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.09 — 520,965 ratings — published 1952
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.79 — 77,063 ratings — published 2024
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.98 — 36,186 ratings — published 2016
The Light Between Oceans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.05 — 491,825 ratings — published 2012
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,276 ratings — published 1951
Lord Jim (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.61 — 33,803 ratings — published 1900
A Voyage for Madmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,836 ratings — published
Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.20 — 20,272 ratings — published 1924
The Island of Sea Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.33 — 187,515 ratings — published 2019
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,758 ratings — published 1979
The Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.55 — 36,663 ratings — published 2005
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,470 ratings — published 2008
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.92 — 26,251 ratings — published 1997
The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin, #10)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.45 — 14,188 ratings — published 1984
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.68 — 339,563 ratings — published 1719
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.10 — 119,945 ratings — published 2020
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.76 — 42,517 ratings — published 2019
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,989 ratings — published 2019
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.09 — 79,253 ratings — published 2007
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,030 ratings — published 1952
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 17,014 ratings — published 1978
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,823 ratings — published 2010
“He tugged on Cinders’ reins and guided her to Nerissa’s right. If looks could kill, he’d be as melted as a candle placed on a hunk of red-hot iron. Something about him just rubbed her the wrong way, he supposed.
It wouldn’t the first time someone disliked him, and he doubted it would be the last.”
― Key
It wouldn’t the first time someone disliked him, and he doubted it would be the last.”
― Key
“Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.”
― The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
The bustling fates
Heap his hands with corpses
Until he stands like a child
With surplus of toys.”
― The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane