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
Life of Pi by Yann MartelLord of the Flies by William GoldingIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'DellHatchet by Gary PaulsenKidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
YA Shipwreck / Lost At Sea Books
122 books — 30 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

Island by Aldous HuxleyCat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. BoyerLowcountry Boneyard by Susan M. BoyerLowcountry Bombshell by Susan M. Boyer
Tropical Utopia
24 books — 27 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

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

Daniel Defoe
There are some secret moving Springs in the Affections, which when they are set a going by some Object in View, or be it some Object, tho’ not in View, yet render’d present to the Mind by the Power of Imagination, that Motion carries out the Soul by its Impetuosity to such violent eager Embracings of the Object, that the Absence of it is insupportable.
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

David Grann
The ship is arranged with the greatest nicety; her decks are as white as snow - her hammocks are stowed with care - her ropes are taught - her yards square - her guns run out - and a guard of marines, under the orders of a lieutenant, prepared to receive every member of the court with the honour due to his rank... The great cabin is prepared, with a long table covered with a green cloth. Pens, ink, paper, prayer-books, and the Articles of War are laid round to every member.
David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

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