I love a good nautical tale, especially when it involves shipwreck, murder, or mutiny. I’m fine with either fiction or non-fiction, and when it comes to fiction I especially love anything with a horror bent; I don’t know if any books exist that really fit this criteria.
Here are ones I’ve read (both fiction and non-fiction):
• The Terror by Dan Simmons
• The North Water by Ian McGuire
• The Wager by David Grann
• The Zorg by Siddharth Kara
• The Wager by
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We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen. A multigenerational saga surrounding Danish sea farers from the mid 19th century to WWII.
I haven’t read it myself, but you might be interested in The Sea Captain’s Wife.
In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Patrick O’Brian’s Master & Commander series. Imagine Jane Austen had written a Regency era mismatched navy buddies swashbuckler and you start to get close. 20 books of dry humor, eccentric characters, birdwatching, heavy drinking, furious battles, primitive surgery, drawing room banter, violin & cello duets, espionage, and scenic global travel from Halifax to Batavia. Plus so many artery destroying meals that a couple of superfans created a cookbook accompaniment to the series.
Longitude – The True Story of a Lone Genius by Dava Sobel
Why haven’t you tried Moby Dick yet?
I loved Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing – antarctic exploration gone wrong…
“In The Heart of The Sea” by Nathaniel Philbrick. True story about the 1820 sinking of the whaling ship Essex and its survivors lost at sea. The novel “Moby Dick” is based on this book.