Sailing


Sailing Alone around the World
The Long Way
A Voyage for Madmen
Maiden Voyage
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
Sailing a Serious Ocean (CREATIVE MATH SUPPLEMENT)
World of My Own
Dove: An Extraordinary Around-the-World Adventure―The Solo Voyage of Five Years and 33,000 Miles
Gipsy Moth Circles the World
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
The Voyager's Handbook: The Essential Guide to Blue Water Cruising
Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing
World Cruising Routes, 5th Edition
Secrets of the Realm by Bev StoutThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James FaroThe Code by James FaroHomecoming by James FaroThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James Faro
Best Sea/Treasure Adventure Novels
30 books — 31 voters
Circe by Madeline MillerThe House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. KluneRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van PeltCut Adrift by Jane JesmondThe Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
52 Book Club 2024: #8 Features The Ocean
411 books — 207 voters

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeLife of Pi by Yann MartelThe Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David WyssPandora by Joshua GrantThe Assiduous Quest of Tobias Hopkins by James Faro
Fictitious Shipwrecks
170 books — 73 voters
Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica PenningtonComing Up for Air by Miranda KenneallyPuberty Blues by Kathy LetteThe Commodore's Cup by Stephen W. MeaderGirls Can't Do It by Peter Filichia
YA Swimming, Surfing, and Sailing
31 books — 5 voters


The men nodded vigorously at me. When they took hold of me and lifted me in their strong arms, I thought nothing of it. I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi

Malcolm Lowry
Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's baptism on storm's pr ...more
Malcolm Lowry, Ultramarine

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