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Fiction Category
| Whaling! Warfare! Smuggling! Mutinies! Intrigue! Or just a leisurely float down the Thames with 2 mates and a dog.Nautical fiction ranges from world classics to light comedies. |
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The Riddle of the SandsBy: Erskine ChildersTwo young British yachtsman discover a grave secret on the shifting tides of the North Sea coast, in what is often considered the first spy novel. |
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The Rime of the Ancient MarinerBy: Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWater, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. |
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Almayer's FollyBy: Joseph ConradA Dutch trader searches for riches in Borneo, in the first novel by the author of Heart of Darkness. |
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An Outcast of the IslandsBy: Joseph ConradA colonial underling struggles with his own decisions on a river outpost in the Far East. |
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NostromoBy: Joseph ConradSeparatism, militias, foreign opportunists and corruption converge in an imaginary South American country. |
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The Ni---- of the NarcissusBy: Joseph ConradThe slovenly crew of the Narcissus adjusts to life aboard with a black crew member. Be prepared for language offensive to today's reader. |
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Heart of DarknessBy: Joseph ConradUpriver, into evil. The great novel and the basis for the movie Apocalypse Now! See blog. |
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Lord JimBy: Joseph Conrad |
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The InheritorsBy: Joseph Conrad |
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TyphoonBy: Joseph Conrad |
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RomanceBy: Joseph Conrad |
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Under Western EyesBy: Joseph Conrad |
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The PilotBy: James Fenimore CooperRevolutionary war espionage off the coast of England, from the author of the Leatherstocking novels. |
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Robinson CrusoeBy: Daniel Defoe |
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The Pickwick PapersBy: Charles Dickens |
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Oliver TwistBy: Charles Dickens |
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Nicholas NicklebyBy: Charles Dickens |
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Three Men in a BoatBy: Jerome K. JeromeThree men, and Montmorency the dog, repair to a small boat for a dryly comical voyage down the Thames. |
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Captains CourageousBy: Rudyard Kipling |
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South Sea TalesBy: Jack LondonStories of cultures colliding in the South Pacific, by the author best known for Klondike short stories and larger-than-life personal history. |
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The Naval OfficerBy: Frederick MarryatMarryat's autobiographical first book chronicles a young man's transformation into an officer. |
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Japhet, in Search of a FatherBy: Frederick Marryat |
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Masterman ReadyBy: Frederick Marryat |
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The Phantom ShipBy: Frederick Marryat |
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Moby DickBy: Herman MelvilleIshmael signs onto the whaler Pequod, led by Ahab, who turns the voyage into an obsessive quest for revenge against the whale who took his leg. |
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OmooBy: Herman MelvilleA ragged crew of whalers mutinees in Tahiti, as observed by a cynical, modernly comic, seaman. |
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TypeeBy: Herman MelvilleA young sailor jumps ship in the South Pacific, in Melvile's first book. A 19th-century page turner, Typee was far more popular in Melville's lifetime than his masterpiece Moby Dick. |
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White JacketBy: Herman MelvillePublished in 1850, White Jacket is both a retelling of Melville's adventures as a seaman on the man-of-war United States and an expose of naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware. |
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RedburnBy: Herman MelvilleDrawn from Melville's own adolescent experience Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. |
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Mardi, Volume IBy: Herman Melville |
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Mardi, Volume IIBy: Herman Melville |
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Treasure IslandBy: Robert Louis Stevenson |
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KidnappedBy: Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The Black ArrowBy: Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The Master of BallantraeBy: Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The Wrong BoxBy: Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The WreckerBy: Robert Louis Stevenson |
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The Ebb-TideBy: Robert Louis Steveson |
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The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy: Mark Twain |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy: Mark TwainThe great American "road trip" story started with this river story, by America's first celebrity author. |
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Five Weeks in a BalloonBy: Jules Gabriel Verne |
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Around the World in Eighty DaysBy: Jules Gabriel Verne |
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From the Earth to the Moon, and A Trip Around ItBy: Jules Gabriel Verne |
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