Shipwreck

Shipwreck is part of Survivalist and/or Disaster fiction. It can be set partially or completely at sea under the Maritime genre. Sometimes the time spent at sea is brief, where Shipwreck instead focuses on the time trapped on an island or land waiting for rescue and survival.

When fighting for survival after becoming stranded on a deserted island or similar location became popular (starting with Robinson Crusoe), a new genre was spawned: Robinsonade.


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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Life of Pi
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Robinson Crusoe
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
A Night to Remember
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
The Lifeboat
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
Lord of the Flies
Jamrach's Menagerie
The Swiss Family Robinson
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du MaurierThe Wreckers by Iain LawrenceForbidden by Eve BuntingCornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 by Cathryn J. PearceDemelza by Winston Graham
Wreckers
42 books — 19 voters

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. ClarkeDead Silence by S.A. BarnesThe Last Astronaut by David WellingtonSalvation Day by Kali WallaceShip of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
Derelict or Abandoned Spaceships
51 books — 30 voters
Squib by Nina BowdenSchizo by Nic SheffHistory Is All You Left Me by Adam SilveraBridge to Terabithia by Katherine PatersonOn My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Drownings in Juvenile Fiction
107 books — 6 voters

Catamaran Crossing by Douglas Carl FrickeThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesHard Aground . . . Again by Eddie       JonesHard Aground with Eddie Jones by Eddie       JonesDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       Jones
Island and Boating Non-Fiction
23 books — 19 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
147 books — 71 voters

Rebecca Behrens
That was creepy, honestly. Pirates and shipwrecks and graveyards, oh my.
Rebecca Behrens, Summer of Lost and Found

Phoebe Rowe
But shipwrecks were rarely like that, she’d learned later, proud and upright, perched whimsically on the seafloor. Wrecks were wrecked, sure and violent. Shattered and flattened, rotting edges under sand. There was no lovely way for something meant to conquer the sea to instead be torn apart by it.
Phoebe Rowe, Swan Light

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