| Author | Title |
| Alexander, Caroline | The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty |
| Andersen, Hans Christian | The Little Mermaid |
| Beach, Edward L. | Run Silent, Run Deep |
| Belloc, Hilaire | The Cruise of the Nona |
| Benchley, Peter | Jaws |
| Bengtsson, Frans G. | The Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age |
| Bergreen, Laurence | Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's
Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe | | Bligh, William |
Mutiny on the Bounty | | Buchheim, Lothar-Günther |
Das Boot | | Callahan, Stephen | Adrift:
Seventy-Six Days Lost At Sea | | Carr, J. Revell | All
Brave Sailors: The Sinking of the Anglo Saxon, 1940 | | Carson, Rachel |
The Sea Around Us | | Casey, John | Spartina |
| Chichester, Francis | Gipsy Moth Circles the
World | | Clancy, Tom | The Hunt for Red October |
| Conrad, Joseph | A Conrad Argosy |
| Conrad, Joseph | Lord Jim |
| Conrad, Joseph | The Mirror of the Sea |
| Conrad, Joseph | The Shadowline | | Cook, James | The Journals of Captain Cook | | Cooper, James Fenimore | The Pilot | | Cordingly,
David | Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates | | Cousteau, Jacques | The Siient World |
| Cupples, George | Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant |
| Dana, Richard Henry | Two Years Before the Mast |
| Darwin, Charles | The Voyage of the Beagle |
| Dean, Captain Harry | The Pedro Gorino: The Adventures of a Negro Sea-Captain
in Africa and on the Seven Seas in His Attempts to Found an Ethiopian Empire, An Autobiographical Narrative |
| Defoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Duane, Daniel | Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast |
| Erskine Childers | The Riddle of the Sands |
| Forester, C. S. | The Hornblower series |
| Fraser, George MacDonald | The Pyrates: A Swashbuckling
Comic Novel by the Creator of Flashman | | Golding, William |
To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy | | Goodrich,
Marcus | Delilah: A Novel about a U.S. Navy Destroyer and the Epic Struggles of Her Crew |
| Hakluyt, Richard | The Principall Navigation, Voyages,
Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | | Hall, James
Norman | Doctor Dogbody's Leg | | Hamsun,
Kurt | August | | Heggen, Thomas | Mr. Roberts | | Hemingway, Ernest | The
Old Man and the Sea | | Heyerdahl, Thor | Kon-Tiki |
| Homer | The Odyssey |
| Horwitz, Tony | Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone
Before | | Hughes, Richard | A High Wind in
Jamaica | | Hughes, Richard | In Hazard |
| Hugo, Victor | The Toilers of the Sea |
| Johnson, Charles | Middle Passage |
| Junger, Sebastian | The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the
Sea | | Kei, M. | Pirates of the Narrow Seas - Book One : The Sallee Rovers | | Kei, M. | Pirates of the Narrow Seas - Book Two : Men of Honor |
| Kei, M. | Pirates of the Narrow Seas - Book Three : Iron Men |
| Kei, M. | Heron Sea, Short Poems of the Chesapeake Bay
(poetry) | | Kei, M. | Slow Motion, the Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack
(poetry) | | Kinder, Gary | Ship of Gold in
the Deep Blue Sea | | Kipling, Rudyard | Captains
Courageous | | Kirk, Hans | The Fishermen |
| Knight, Edward F. | The Cruise of the Falcon |
| Knight, Roger | The Pursuit of Victory: The Life
and Achievement of Horatio Nelson | | Kurson, Robert | Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries
of World War II | | Lansing, Alfred | Endurance:
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage | | Larson, Erik | Isaac's
Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History | | Larsson,
Björn | Long John Silver: The True and Eventful History of My Life of Liberty and Adventure as
a Gentleman of Fortune and Enemy of Mankind | | Lenz, Sigfried |
The Lightship | | Lloyd, Christopher | Lord Cochrane: Seaman, Radical, Liberator | | London,
Jack | The Sea Wolf | | London, Jack |
The South Sea Tales | | Lord, Walter | A Night to Remember | | Lundy, Derek | Godforsaken
Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters | | Mahan, Alfred
Thayer | The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 | | Márquez, Gabriel Garcia | The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor |
| Marryat, Frederick | Percival Keene | | Marryat, Frederick | Mr Midshipman Easy | | Maury, Richard | The Saga of the Cimba | | McKenna, Richard | The Sand Pebbles | | McPhee, John | Looking for a Ship | | Melville,
Herman | Moby-Dick | | Melville, Herman |
Typee | | Melville, Herman | White
Jacket | | Moitessier, Bernard | The Long Way |
| Monserrat, Nicholas | The Cruel Sea |
| Morison, Samuel Eliot | Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A
Life of Christopher Columbus | | Morison, Samuel Eliot | John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography | | Munoz,
Charles | The Stowaway | | Newby, Eric |
The Last Grain Race | | Nordhoff, Charles, and James
Normal Hall | Mutiny on the Bounty Trilogy | | O'Brian,
Patrick | The Golden Ocean | | O'Brian,
Patrick | The Unknown Shore | | Parkinson,
Northcote | The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower: A Biography of C. S. Forester's Famous Naval
Hero | | Philbrick, Nathaniel | In the Heart
of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex | | Philbrick, Nathaniel |
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 | | Poe, Edgar Allen | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of
Nantucket | | Perez-Reverte, Arturo | Captain
Alatriste novels | | Pope, Dudley | Decision
at Trafalgar: The Story of the Greatest British Naval Battle in the Age of Nelson | | Pope, Dudley | The Black Ship | | Porter,
Captain David | Journal of a Cruise | | Raban,
Jonathan | Passage to Juneau | | Riley, Captain
James | Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing Account of a New England Sea Captain Enslaved by North
African Arabs | | Rodger, N. A. M. | The Safe
Guard of the Sea | | Rodger, N. A. M. | The
Command of the Ocean | | Rousmaniere, John | Fastnet,
Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing | | Russell,
S. Thomas | Under Enemy Colors | | Sabatini,
Rafael | Captain Blood: His Odyssey | | Sabatini,
Rafael | The Sea-Hawk | | Scott, Michael |
Tom Cringle's Log | | Shackleton, Ernest |
South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance | | Sinclair, Arthur | Two Years on the Alabama: A Firsthand Account of the Daring
Exploits of the Infamous Confederate Raider | | Slocum, Joshua |
Sailing Alone Around the World | | Smollet, Tobias |
The Adventures of Roderick Random | | Stanton, Doug |
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | A Footnote to History |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Treasure Island |
| Toalin, Nicholas, and Ron Hall | The Strange
Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst | | Tyng, Charles | Before
the Wind: The Memoir of an American Sea Captain, 1808-1833 | | Van
de Water, Frederick F. | The Real McCoy | | Verne,
Jules | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | | Villiers,
A. J. | By Way of Cape Horn | | Voss, John
Claus | The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss | | Wenger,
Susan | The Port-Wine Sea | | Worsley, Frank
A. | Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure | | Wouk,
Herman | The Caine Mutiny |
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