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Master and Commander (Aubrey/Maturin, #1)
by
Patrick O'Brian
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Treasure Island
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Ernest Hemingway
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Moby-Dick
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Mid Ocean
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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The Odyssey
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
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The Hunt for Red October
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Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy (Bloody Jack, #1)
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L.A. Meyer
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The Caine Mutiny
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Herman Wouk
    4.11 avg rating — 3,819 ratings
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Gulliver's Travels
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Charles Bernard Nordhoff
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The Riddle of the Sands
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Erskine Childers
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Life of Pi
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The Cruel Sea
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On Stranger Tides
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Captain Blood
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Rafael Sabatini
    4.13 avg rating — 1,704 ratings
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| 21 |
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Das Boot: The Boat
by
Lothar-Günther Buchheim
    4.17 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Horatio Hornblower 1 - 11.
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C.S. Forester
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| 23 |
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The Shipping News
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E. Annie Proulx
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| 24 |
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The Golden Ocean
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Patrick O'Brian
    4.00 avg rating — 433 ratings
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| 25 |
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Lord Jim
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| 26 |
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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Avi
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Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West (Bloody Jack, #5)
by
L.A. Meyer
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The Boat Who Wouldn't Float
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Farley Mowat
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Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber (Bloody Jack, #3)
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L.A. Meyer
    4.31 avg rating — 2,865 ratings
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Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady (Bloody Jack, #2)
by
L.A. Meyer
    4.21 avg rating — 3,397 ratings
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| 31 |
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The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels (5 Volumes)
by
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    4.74 avg rating — 453 ratings
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| 32 |
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Billy Budd, Sailor
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    2.90 avg rating — 4,948 ratings
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| 33 |
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Captains Corageous
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Pirates!
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| 35 |
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To Catch a Pirate
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In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber (Bloody Jack, #4)
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L.A. Meyer
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A High Wind in Jamaica
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    3.83 avg rating — 1,375 ratings
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The Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age
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Frans G. Bengtsson
    4.27 avg rating — 642 ratings
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The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Adventures of Jacky Faber, on her Way to Botany Bay (Bloody Jack, #8)
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L.A. Meyer
    4.29 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket & Related Tales
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Edgar Allan Poe
    3.61 avg rating — 1,397 ratings
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Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel Defoe
    3.46 avg rating — 34,055 ratings
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| 42 |
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Kidnapped
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Robert Louis Stevenson
    3.63 avg rating — 9,016 ratings
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| 43 |
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The Master Of Ballantrae
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Robert Louis Stevenson
    3.61 avg rating — 791 ratings
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Peter Pan
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The Sea-Hawk
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    3.96 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Amy's Eyes
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Girl at Sea
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| 48 |
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| 49 |
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    4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
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    4.04 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
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The Nigger of the Narcissus and the Secret Sharer
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Joseph Conrad
    3.83 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Fevre Dream
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Dark Voyage (Night Soldiers, #8)
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Alan Furst
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Doctor Syn On The High Seas
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    3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Depths
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All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud
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Armstrong Sperry
    3.27 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Mr. Midshipman Easy
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Frederick Marryat
    3.79 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
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Jean Lee Latham
    4.09 avg rating — 2,354 ratings
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Peter Simple (Heart of Oak Sea Classics Series)
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    4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Powder Monkey: Adventures of a Young Sailor
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Paul Dowswell
    3.69 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, #1)
by
Dave Barry
    4.00 avg rating — 14,762 ratings
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Pirate's Passage
by
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    3.24 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Sea Wolf
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Up Periscope
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The Guardship (Thomas Marlowe, #1)
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Run Silent, Run Deep
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The Bounty Mutiny
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    3.81 avg rating — 232 ratings
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The Toilers of the Sea
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Victor Hugo
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Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas
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Singing in the Shrouds
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Ngaio Marsh
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The Black Swan
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Frenchman's Creek
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Cup of Gold
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John Steinbeck
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James Norman Hall
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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
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    3.44 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Longest Race
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A Voyage for Madmen
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Pieces of Eight: A Story of Sex & Love, Trust & Betrayal
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The Island of the Day Before
by
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| 77 |
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Prisoner of the Raven
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Kirby Crow
    3.56 avg rating — 97 ratings
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| 77 |
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The Ordinary Seaman
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Francisco Goldman
    3.92 avg rating — 116 ratings
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We, the Drowned
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Carsten Jensen
    4.19 avg rating — 541 ratings
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The Zhukov Briefing
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by
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The Pirates! In An Adventure With Ahab: A Novel
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Gideon Defoe
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The Buccaneers of America
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: A Novel
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Gideon Defoe
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