Maritime

Maritime fiction has several names - Nautical Fiction, Naval Fiction, Sea Fiction, Sea Stories or Naval Adventure Fiction. It is a genre of literature with a setting at or near the sea, focusing on human relationships to the sea and sea voyages. Nautical culture is highlighted. The settings vary widely, including merchant ships, liners, naval ships, sea ports, etc.

Maritime fiction may focus on oceanic wildlife such as Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851), or fantasy creatures and legends such as the Mermaid or Kraken.

Common themes include the sub-genres Shipwreck and Pirates.

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The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Sea Captain's Wife
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Quantum Tempest (The Oregon Files #19)
North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire
Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow (Dirk Pitt #27)
Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
Clive Cussler Ghost Soldier (The Oregon Files Book #18)
Clive Cussler's Condor's Fury (NUMA Files #20)
Hellburner (Oregon Files #16)
Dark Vector (NUMA Files, #19)
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Treasure Island
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth WareSomething in the Water by Catherine SteadmanShipped by Angie HockmanThe Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart TurtonPrincess Charming by Jane Heller
Suspense At Sea
31 books — 13 voters
Moby-Dick by Herman MelvilleJaws by Peter BenchleyRobinson Crusoe by Daniel DefoeThe Odyssey by HomerA Night to Remember by Walter Lord
The Sea Is Calling ...
64 books — 10 voters

RMS Queen Mary 50 Years of Splendour by David F. HutchingsThe Queens of the North Atlantic by Robert LaceyRMS Queen Mary by Andrew   BrittonRMS Queen Mary; queen of the queens, by William James DuncanMasters and Commanders by Andrew Roberts
On Board the Queen Mary
6 books — 1 voter
The Last Tale of Norah Bow by J.P. WhiteHard Aground . . . Again by Eddie       JonesThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesHard Aground with Eddie Jones by Eddie       JonesDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       Jones
Best Books for Sailors
57 books — 24 voters

Mythic Adventures by Ayn Cates SullivanAn Aquarium by Jeffrey YangZong! by Marlene NourbeSe PhilipManatee/Humanity by Anne WaldmanSpell by Dan Beachy-Quick
Ocean Poetry
10 books — 13 voters
The Monster Is No More by Chris BrydaDead Calm, Bone Dry by Eddie       JonesThe End of Calico Jack by Eddie       JonesCurse of the Black Avenger by Eddie       JonesLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Up on the deck
50 books — 36 voters


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