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The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as sea)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,291,825 ratings — published 1952
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as sea)
avg rating 3.56 — 610,301 ratings — published 1851
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as sea)
avg rating 3.89 — 274,079 ratings — published 1869
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as sea)
avg rating 4.17 — 117,671 ratings — published 2000
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as sea)
avg rating 3.85 — 535,414 ratings — published 1882
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as sea)
avg rating 4.07 — 62,944 ratings — published 1969
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as sea)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,741,526 ratings — published 2001
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as sea)
avg rating 4.17 — 198,322 ratings — published 2023
To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as sea)
avg rating 3.71 — 206,963 ratings — published 2018
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as sea)
avg rating 3.93 — 236,886 ratings — published 2017
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as sea)
avg rating 4.00 — 114,346 ratings — published 2020
H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as sea)
avg rating 4.42 — 21,219 ratings — published 1973
Post Captain (Aubrey & Maturin, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as sea)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,016 ratings — published 1972
The Sea Wolf (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as sea)
avg rating 4.06 — 33,155 ratings — published 1904
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as sea)
avg rating 4.09 — 72,410 ratings — published 2007
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as sea)
avg rating 4.12 — 118,520 ratings — published 1997
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as sea)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,175,657 ratings — published -700
The Mauritius Command (Aubrey & Maturin, #4)
by (shelved 26 times as sea)
avg rating 4.35 — 18,239 ratings — published 1977
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as sea)
avg rating 3.68 — 328,838 ratings — published 1719
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as sea)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,090 ratings — published 1950
Sailing Alone around the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as sea)
avg rating 4.15 — 11,099 ratings — published 1899
The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)
by (shelved 22 times as sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 15,031 ratings — published 1979
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sea)
avg rating 3.71 — 122,951 ratings — published 2022
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as sea)
avg rating 4.46 — 160,827 ratings — published 1959
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as sea)
avg rating 4.25 — 76,673 ratings — published 2023
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as sea)
avg rating 4.13 — 159,782 ratings — published 2015
The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
by (shelved 19 times as sea)
avg rating 4.40 — 14,036 ratings — published 1980
The Letter of Marque (Aubrey & Maturin, #12)
by (shelved 19 times as sea)
avg rating 4.50 — 11,919 ratings — published 1988
Treason's Harbour (Aubrey & Maturin, #9)
by (shelved 19 times as sea)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,616 ratings — published 1983
House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as sea)
avg rating 3.90 — 111,157 ratings — published 2019
The Reverse of the Medal (Aubrey & Maturin, #11)
by (shelved 18 times as sea)
avg rating 4.43 — 10,945 ratings — published 1986
The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey & Maturin, #14)
by (shelved 18 times as sea)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,396 ratings — published 1991
Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)
by (shelved 18 times as sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 16,221 ratings — published 1978
Daughter of the Siren Queen (Daughter of the Pirate King, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 4.05 — 134,899 ratings — published 2018
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 3.98 — 34,228 ratings — published 2016
Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 3.19 — 19,455 ratings — published 1924
Blue at the Mizzen (Aubrey & Maturin, #20)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,502 ratings — published 1999
The Hundred Days (Aubrey & Maturin, #19)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,749 ratings — published 1998
Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga: Chronological Order, #2)
by (shelved 17 times as sea)
avg rating 4.32 — 13,433 ratings — published 1952
The Thirteen-Gun Salute (Aubrey & Maturin, #13)
by (shelved 16 times as sea)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,225 ratings — published 1989
The Yellow Admiral (Aubrey & Maturin, #18)
by (shelved 16 times as sea)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,326 ratings — published 1996
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as sea)
avg rating 3.99 — 75,837 ratings — published 1995
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove (Pine Cove, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as sea)
avg rating 3.88 — 35,952 ratings — published 1999
The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)
by (shelved 16 times as sea)
avg rating 4.32 — 11,957 ratings — published 1981
The Wine-Dark Sea (Aubrey & Maturin, #16)
by (shelved 16 times as sea)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,498 ratings — published 1993
The Commodore (Aubrey & Maturin, #17)
by (shelved 16 times as sea)
avg rating 4.43 — 9,515 ratings — published 1994
Tress of the Emerald Sea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as sea)
avg rating 4.33 — 269,042 ratings — published 2023
“His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.”
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“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”
― The Sea Around Us
― The Sea Around Us














