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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 — 625,805 ratings — published 1851
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,343,833 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 — 121,108 ratings — published 2000
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.17 — 224,750 ratings — published 2023
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.07 — 64,695 ratings — published 1969
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,221,809 ratings — published -700
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.46 — 173,312 ratings — published 1959
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,771,058 ratings — published 2001
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,938 ratings — published 1997
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.68 — 137,594 ratings — published 2022
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.85 — 548,433 ratings — published 1882
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.89 — 280,905 ratings — published 1869
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,750 ratings — published 1840
The Sea Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,147 ratings — published 1904
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.13 — 164,974 ratings — published 2015
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 15 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,763 ratings — published 1972
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,825 ratings — published 1973
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.46 — 23,552 ratings — published 2024
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.24 — 84,282 ratings — published 2023
The Sea, the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.96 — 26,272 ratings — published 1978
We, the Drowned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,528 ratings — published 2006
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.16 — 11,373 ratings — published 1899
Shadow Divers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.37 — 37,372 ratings — published 2004
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 — 5,305 ratings — published 2010
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.09 — 514,441 ratings — published 1952
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,777 ratings — published 1977
Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
by (shelved 12 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.19 — 19,944 ratings — published 1924
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.82 — 57,179 ratings — published 2024
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,336 ratings — published 2016
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.97 — 63,370 ratings — published 1798
The Light Between Oceans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.05 — 486,193 ratings — published 2012
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,697 ratings — published 1950
Lord Jim (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.61 — 33,405 ratings — published 1900
A Voyage for Madmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,602 ratings — published 1997
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,428 ratings — published 1979
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,166 ratings — published 1951
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,437 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 — 25,725 ratings — published 1997
The Far Side of the World (Aubrey & Maturin, #10)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.45 — 13,934 ratings — published 1984
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.68 — 335,238 ratings — published 1719
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,371 ratings — published 2019
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,768 ratings — published 2019
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.09 — 76,741 ratings — published 2007
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,799 ratings — published 1952
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,650 ratings — published 1978
The Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.55 — 35,855 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 — 11,676 ratings — published 2010
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Hoid's Travails, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 4.31 — 311,645 ratings — published 2023
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as the-sea)
avg rating 3.83 — 55,204 ratings — published 1963
“My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea.”
― The Wasp Factory
― The Wasp Factory
“A view of the sea drives people crazy—in a positive sense, it calms them, but it disturbs them too. There must be some atavistic link between the eye, the soul and water, extensive waters of mystic depths and an inaccessible, dark bottom. Some connections quiver, are inexplicable.”
― EEG
― EEG











