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The Sea Books
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.57 — 616,009 ratings — published 1851
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,313,270 ratings — published 1952
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,874 ratings — published 2000
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.17 — 208,689 ratings — published 2023
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.07 — 63,539 ratings — published 1969
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,192,978 ratings — published -800
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.85 — 540,603 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 — 119,055 ratings — published 1997
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,753,981 ratings — published 2001
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.69 — 129,506 ratings — published 2022
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.89 — 276,598 ratings — published 1869
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,606 ratings — published 1840
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.46 — 165,504 ratings — published 1959
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.13 — 161,694 ratings — published 2015
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,267 ratings — published 1972
The Sea, the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.96 — 25,543 ratings — published 1978
We, the Drowned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,257 ratings — published 2006
The Sea Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.06 — 33,531 ratings — published 1904
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 — 5,264 ratings — published 2010
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,440 ratings — published 1973
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,193 ratings — published 1899
Shadow Divers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.37 — 36,167 ratings — published 2004
Lord Jim (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.61 — 33,010 ratings — published 1900
Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.19 — 19,638 ratings — published 1924
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.09 — 507,667 ratings — published 1952
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.46 — 20,529 ratings — published 2024
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.98 — 34,583 ratings — published 2016
The Light Between Oceans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.04 — 479,315 ratings — published 2012
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,294 ratings — published 1950
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,399 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 — 25,140 ratings — published 1997
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,414 ratings — published 1977
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.68 — 331,455 ratings — published 1719
A Voyage for Madmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,431 ratings — published 1997
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,564 ratings — published 2019
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.97 — 62,738 ratings — published 1798
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,183 ratings — published 1979
The Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.55 — 35,141 ratings — published 2005
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 — 11,547 ratings — published 2010
The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin, #10)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.45 — 13,715 ratings — published 1984
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.86 — 32,280 ratings — published 2024
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.25 — 79,179 ratings — published 2023
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.84 — 52,792 ratings — published 1963
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.00 — 115,821 ratings — published 2020
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,040 ratings — published 2020
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.77 — 40,106 ratings — published 2019
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,918 ratings — published 2007
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,554 ratings — published 1952
The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey & Maturin, #18)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,400 ratings — published 1996
“I remember explaining explaining what I saw to one brother who couldn't see the sea.
"I see an endless body of blue," I said, "with a soul that courses through the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Suez Canal, all the way to the Red Sea and the western coast of Yemen, where in the seaside town of Hudaydah, my father is at the market buying fish for a special meal. And when the tide comes in and the air is heavy with salt, my mind takes me straight to the port city of Aden and weekends I spent there with friends after high school. We'd lie on the beach and imagine our lives and the wives and families we would one day have.”
― Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
"I see an endless body of blue," I said, "with a soul that courses through the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Suez Canal, all the way to the Red Sea and the western coast of Yemen, where in the seaside town of Hudaydah, my father is at the market buying fish for a special meal. And when the tide comes in and the air is heavy with salt, my mind takes me straight to the port city of Aden and weekends I spent there with friends after high school. We'd lie on the beach and imagine our lives and the wives and families we would one day have.”
― Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
“The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
