Seafaring Adventures
- 20,000 leagues under the sea-Jules Verne
- Treasure island-Robert Louis Stevenson
- Billy Budd and other stories-Herman Melville
- Captains courageous-Rudyard Kipling
- Mutiny on the bounty-Charles Nordhoff
- The rime of the ancient mariner-Samuel Taylor Colridge
- The sea wolf-Jack London
- Gulliver's travels-Jonathan Swift
Lost at sea
- Life of Pi-Yann Martel
- The old man and the sea-Ernest Hemingway
- The story of a shipwrecked sailor-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Lord of the flies-William Golding
- Desolation island-Patrick O'Brian
Contemporary fiction featuring the sea
- The shipping news-Annie Proulx
- Ahab's wife-Sena Jeter Naslund
- Lighthousekeeping-Jeanette Winterson
- Message in a bottle-Nicholas Sparks
- A salty piece of land-Jimmy Buffett
Classic American literature of the 19th century
- The scarlett letter-Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Gone with the wind-Margaret Mitchell
- The red badge of courage-Stephen Crane
- The age of innocence-Edith Wharton
Allegorical tales
- The lord of the rings-J.R.R. Tolkien
- Pilgrim's progress-John Bunyan
- The old man and the sea-Ernest Hemingway
- The last unicorn-Peter S. Beagle
- The road-Cormac McCarthy
- Book of the dun cow-Walter Wangerin, Jr.
Books with exceptional dialogue
- Huck Finn-Mark Twain
- Their eyes were watching God-Zora Neal Hurston
- Gone with the wind-Margaret Mitchell
- To have and have not-Ernest Hemingway
- Love comes softly-Janette Oke
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| The Whale-Phillip Hoare |
