Persuasion by Jane Austen (while it doesn't necessarily take place on water, the ocean plays/seaside play an important role). Also, The Riverworld series by Phillip Jose Farmer and The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley.
My favorite is Moby Dick but I also loved 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Solaris by Stanislaw Lem.
Probably The Scar by China Mieville. So rich and imaginative, full of description as all his books are. It features a floating city called the Armada made up of a bunch of pirate ships roped together.
Ship Breaker and the Drowned Cities by Paolo Baciagalupi were great deindustrial / cli-fi SF tales, as was New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Very watery, both!
Ursula K. Leguin's Wizard of Earthsea and its sequels also comes to mind.
Once I took the ferry from Michigan to Wisconsin and I thought the Odyssey would be the perfect pairing. Turns out nothing good happens while he’s on a boat. It’s a terrible book while seafaring.
That being said, Moby Dick is going to be my summer reward as well. Looking forward to comparing notes. All the best from Lake Michigan. 🌊
Sea wolf, by Jack London. I read it in my late teens. I've been thinking of going back to it.
I've read a lot of Jack London, but not that one!
Excellent adventure yarn.
In The Heart of the Sea- the true story that inspired Moby Dick- Iis fantastic and gripping!
The Underwater Welder is a graphic novel by Jeff Lemire that is beautiful and moving.
Top 3: The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides, Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff, and In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick.
Honorable mention: Two little known young adult novels by A. S. Peterson called Fiddler’s Gun and Fiddler’s Green.
In the Heart of the Sea is so so good
Persuasion by Jane Austen (while it doesn't necessarily take place on water, the ocean plays/seaside play an important role). Also, The Riverworld series by Phillip Jose Farmer and The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley.
Yes to Persuasion!
I've not read any of those! Thanks for the recs.
Does ‘The Hunt for Red October’ count?
Heck yeah. Great one. Related, I want to read Das Boot sometime soon.
My favorite is Moby Dick but I also loved 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Solaris by Stanislaw Lem.
I haven't read Verne since taking in a kids edition in my youth. I'll have to check him out sometime.
Probably The Scar by China Mieville. So rich and imaginative, full of description as all his books are. It features a floating city called the Armada made up of a bunch of pirate ships roped together.
Ship Breaker and the Drowned Cities by Paolo Baciagalupi were great deindustrial / cli-fi SF tales, as was New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson. Very watery, both!
Ursula K. Leguin's Wizard of Earthsea and its sequels also comes to mind.
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.
I'll look it up - never heard of it.
Once I took the ferry from Michigan to Wisconsin and I thought the Odyssey would be the perfect pairing. Turns out nothing good happens while he’s on a boat. It’s a terrible book while seafaring.
That being said, Moby Dick is going to be my summer reward as well. Looking forward to comparing notes. All the best from Lake Michigan. 🌊
Ha, great point about The Odyssey!
Mysterious Island, Jules Verne
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Barbarian Days, William Finnegan
I’ve always wanted to read a river runs through it, but haven’t yet.
I have Barbarian Days on my shelf waiting for me. And ditto on River Runs Through It.
Joseph Conrad, linha de sombra
Reverte, o cemitério dos barcos sem nome
The Covenant of Water and There Are Rivers In The Sky
I also thought of Covenant of Water — amazing book.
Waterland - Graham Swift - stunning
Never heard of it! Thanks.
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is not exactly a maritime setting, but it’s quirky, charming, and quite wet.
Much more relevant to your prompt: I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger, a dystopian hero’s journey story that is set on Lake Superior.
Yes to both of those! Loved 'em.
Yes Piranesi!
On Chesil Beach. Quiet, devastating.
Oh yes, quietly devastating is right.
Never heard of it, thanks for the rec.
In the kingdom of ice by Hampton Sides