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 Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
A Night to Remember
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
The Lifeboat
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The Swiss Family Robinson
Lord of the Flies
Jamrach's Menagerie
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 — 78 voters

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieEvil Under the Sun by Agatha ChristieGRINGOS AND FLAMINGOS  by Scott  L. Nelson
Vacations from Hell
155 books — 78 voters
The Martian by Andy WeirLord of the Flies by William GoldingAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Books About Being Trapped or Stranded
673 books — 246 voters

A Day of Judgment by Charles ToddUTOPYC. The first Anarcho-Capitalist Utopia by W. GaltIsland by Aldous HuxleyCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer
Tropical Utopia
26 books — 46 voters

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

Curtis Tyrone Jones
“ You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes. ”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

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