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Shipwreck Books
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.17 — 216,388 ratings — published 2023
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,761,665 ratings — published 2001
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.17 — 119,882 ratings — published 2000
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.68 — 333,099 ratings — published 1719
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.13 — 163,208 ratings — published 2015
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.84 — 44,145 ratings — published 2024
A Night to Remember (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.10 — 29,571 ratings — published 1955
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,345 ratings — published 2007
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.12 — 119,463 ratings — published 1997
The Lifeboat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.20 — 25,432 ratings — published 2012
Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,494 ratings — published 2002
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.46 — 169,334 ratings — published 1959
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,227,102 ratings — published 1954
Jamrach's Menagerie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.58 — 8,075 ratings — published 2011
The Swiss Family Robinson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.91 — 110,258 ratings — published 1812
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.30 — 26,172 ratings — published 2014
Surviving Savannah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.16 — 30,731 ratings — published 2021
Shipwreck (Island, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,973 ratings — published 2001
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.73 — 136,378 ratings — published 1896
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,331 ratings — published 2004
Shadow Divers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.37 — 36,659 ratings — published 2004
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.57 — 620,182 ratings — published 1851
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.52 — 8,896 ratings — published 2025
Surviving Raine (Surviving Raine, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.00 — 15,252 ratings — published 2013
Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,766 ratings — published 2021
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.27 — 18,780 ratings — published 2021
Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea and the Shipwreck of the Titanic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,477 ratings — published 2022
The Ice Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,119 ratings — published 2000
Batavia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,957 ratings — published 2011
The Lightkeeper (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,207 ratings — published 1997
Beau Crusoe (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,014 ratings — published 2007
The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,376 ratings — published 2022
Does It Hurt? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.89 — 269,905 ratings — published 2022
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.09 — 75,197 ratings — published 2007
Lovewrecked (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.87 — 6,043 ratings — published 2020
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,142 ratings — published 2018
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,406 ratings — published 2003
Escape (Island, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,392 ratings — published 2001
Baby Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,663 ratings — published 1937
The Living (The Living, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,279 ratings — published 2013
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.78 — 229,035 ratings — published 1611
Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.97 — 358 ratings — published 1972
Imagine (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,352 ratings — published 1995
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.15 — 20,997 ratings — published 1986
The Cay (The Cay, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.80 — 38,502 ratings — published 1969
Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.11 — 38,326 ratings — published 2008
The Island of the Day Before (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.50 — 16,423 ratings — published 1994
Micah's Island (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.39 — 135 ratings — published 2013
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,728 ratings — published 1955
Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as shipwreck)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,982 ratings — published 2015
“Life is, in itself and forever, shipwreck. To be shipwrecked is not to drown. The poor human being, feeling himself sinking into the abyss, moves his arms to keep afloat. This movement of the arms which is his reaction against his own destruction is culture - a swimming stroke...”
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