Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge discussion

The Woman in Cabin 10 and In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex would definitely work. I know there are many others!

Urgh I read the woman in cabin 10 this year 😂😂

Well it's not really at sea but on the river Nile.
Death on the Nile

and
Moby-Dick or, The Whale

If someone wants to use nonfiction here, I read Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage this year, and it's excellent.

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels
Sphere

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger - non-fiction

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson - non-fiction

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick - non-fiction

Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer - fiction

Probably most anything about the Titanic, and most stories about pirates, too. Those could be fiction or non-fiction.

Anna wrote: "If someone wants to use nonfiction here, I read Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage this year, and it's excellent."

I can second this suggestion. It was really great. Also In the Heart of the Sea that Nicole mentioned.

The deep by nick cutter.

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. Yes, it was made into a "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie... (Though as a bonus, this means it can also fit the "made into a movie you already saw" category...)

Does it have to happen on a ship or something? I can think of a couple of novels that are set on a small island in a sea. Would that be "at sea"or not?

I don't think it has to be on a ship (for example, I think "mermaid" books would work here), but it would have to be a REALLY small island for me to think of it as "at sea" - if you think of it that way, then that book would absolutely work!

I read a fantastic book a few years back that would work here - it's a sort of dystopian, the world is flooded so much of the action takes place on a series of ships and in a house that is sort of anchored in the sea: The Gracekeepers

I think the protagonist might be LBGT too! I can't remember now.

I actually like this one!!! I used to read plenty of sailing travelogues.

Several suggestions (useless to me since I don't reread books for the Challenge): Eric Newby's The Last Grain Race; Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki; Bernard Moitessier's books (especially La Longue Route (I'm sure it was translated in English); travel journals by Cook, Bougainville and many others. And in the fiction category, several books by Francisco Coloane; Melville's Moby Dick obviously...

I think I'll try this one:
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe

Life of Pi
The Old Man and the Sea

Nadine wrote: "it would have to be a REALLY small island for me to think of it as "at sea""

We even have something called Archipelago Sea with 40,000 islands, so yeah, there are plenty of small ones, too, as only 257 are over 1 km2, and the people living on those islands are sometimes at the mercy of the sea and its weather. I was mainly thinking about The Summer Book, though there might be others, too.

Railsea

Survival

The Shipping News
438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean
A Sea-Chase

I recommend Passagier 23/Passenger 23 by German author Sebastian Fitzek, a thriller set almost entirely on a cruise ship. Fits the prompt to a T.

Day Four by Sarah Lotz is also set aboard a cruise ship if the cover blurb is to be believed, but I haven't read that one yet (I'm planning to use it for the prompt myself^^).

I have had The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts on my TBR pile for ages. Glad I am finally getting to it. It looks really interesting.

The North Water

I just got an e-mail alerting me that the Audible Deal of the Day is The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael Tougias and Casey Sherman. It sounds like it could be interesting, and it's under 6 hours long. I looked it up on Goodreads, and the book is under 200 pages, so it would also be a quick read if anyone would prefer to read instead of listen to their book.
The Audible deal is only good for 11/03/17, and ends at 11:59 p.m. PT. Here's the link if you're interested:
https://www.audible.com/pd/History/Th...

Mira Grant is releasing Into the Drowning Deep this month, and it seems like it'll probably qualify.

2 slightly obvious classics: Robinson Crusoe or Gulliver's Travels

Enslaved by the Ocean / Where Darkness Lies

For a non-fiction idea:
When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake

Sara wrote: "The Woman in Cabin 10 and In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex would definitely work. I know there are many others!"

I was not a fan of In The Heart of the Sea. The story itself was fine but at times it seemed like it would describe the boats down to each plank of wood and bolt.

I’m finally going to tackle this long had TBR
We, the Drowned

I think this would work too
Salt to the Sea

There is also "The Ship of Brides" by Jojo Moyes.

I'm thinking about trying one of Clive Cussler's adventure stories. I've never read anything by him, but I'm under the impression that I can just "dive" right in anywhere:

Pacific Vortex!
The Mediterranean Caper
Iceberg
Raise the Titanic!
Atlantis Found
Arctic Drift
Odessa Sea

If anyone has read any Cussler, I'm open to suggestions here!!

If you enjoy teen/YA books, Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller is a lot of fun!

Karen wrote: "If you enjoy teen/YA books, Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller is a lot of fun!"

Thanks! I hadn't heard of that book, just looked at it and it looks like a lot of fun - added it!

Another younger book that people might like (I love it, one of my faves from childhood) is the True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.

Cinnamon and Gunpowder
Mutiny on the Bounty
Captain Blood
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The Sea-Hawk
Master and Commander
The Sea Wolf
The Caine Mutiny
Life of Pi
Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific In A Raft
Windcatcher
Mariel of Redwall
Billy Budd, Sailor
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Call It Courage
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways & Sailors' Wives
Maiden Voyage

Between this and the two ocean/water prompts at Around the Year, clearly I’ll be reading a lot of sea stories.

Maybe this will finally push me to read Moby-Dick. Otherwise, I’m contemplating Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.

For easier reading (well maybe, actually not so sure about that, adults might find different things about it than children do), there is Moominpappa at Sea.

Earlier this year I got a copy of Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure. It is a facsimile edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's diary when he was the ship's surgeon on a whaling vessel as a med student. I might read that.

If you're into YA and Peter Pan retellings you can read Unhooked. The whole book isn't set in the sea but parts of it are.

Anna wrote: "If someone wants to use nonfiction here, I read Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage this year, and it's excellent."

Heads up US Audible members, this book is FREE today, Nov 6. as today's 20th anniversary perk. Be sure to grab it while you can.

Choral am Ende der Reise, in English: Psalm at Journey's End, a novel about the musicians on the Titanic is supposed to be really good (my husband highly recommends it) and I think I might read it for this prompt.

poshpenny wrote: "Heads up US Audible members, this book is FREE today, Nov 6. as today's 20th anniversary perk. Be sure to grab it while you can..."


Hooray! This was on my list for 2017, but I didn't get to it. Now I'll have it ready for 2018!

poshpenny wrote: "Anna wrote: "If someone wants to use nonfiction here, I read Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage this year, and it's excellent."

Heads up US Audible members, this book is FREE ..."

Thank you! I just read it this year so I probably won't be listening to it any time soon; however, I really liked it and free is free.

I've been wanting to read The Whale Rider, and I think it will fit this prompt.

If not, In Other Lands, a story with mermaids, should work.

The Whale Rider is set in a coastal village. But thanks, I am adding this to my movies I've already seen list!

poshpenny wrote: "Anna wrote: "If someone wants to use nonfiction here, I read Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage this year, and it's excellent."

Heads up US Audible members, this book is FREE ..."

Yay! This book is on my TBR (though I'm back and forth about using this or Captains Corageous for the prompt) so I picked it up. Just in case this helps anyone else, I'm not an audible member, but I was still able to get it free through Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shac...

Just finished Burning Bright, which is set primarily at sea, with a navy vs.pirates plot-line. Very fun.

There are lots of cozy mysteries set on cruise ships, you can find a list under vacation themed here https://www.cozy-mystery.com.

I have to assume romances abound too.

Both Treasure Island and Kidnapped.

Then there is the series by Patrick O'Brien set on ships in the Royal Navy during Napolionic wars.

A big part of Around the World in Eighty Days takes place at sea.

Joseph Conrad has a couple.

The Odyssey may be the first ever written.

C.S. Forester wrote the Hornblower series

The Hunt for Red October fits

Herman Wouk wrote The Caine Mutiny

Outlander An Echo in the Bone-- most of this book take place at sea!

https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimag...

Thunderstruck by Erik Larson is mainly at sea. It's not nearly as good as some of his others, but if you are doing the Around the Year Challenge as well, it fits prompts for
- A book inspired by real events
- Narrative nonfiction
- A book with a map??? I cant remember, It might be The Ghost Map I'm thinking of
- Featuring a murder
- Book for the water element prompt
- Takes place on, in or underwater

I grew up mid-continent America without traveling beyond the region as a young person. My high school history teacher (also a coach) recommended The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat. One of those memorable books for me, I forgot its name, not once, but twice. The second time someone helped me reconstruct, I got a copy. But I haven't reread it yet. 2018?

3/1/2018
I just nominated The Cruel Sea for the group read.

This book created permanent impressions for me of the Atlantic Ocean and its power long before I ever saw a body of water I couldn't see across.

Somehow, this man's review rings authentic on the value of this story:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Sweet
Rolling in the Deep
The Lifeboat Clique