I loved Frankenstein and S.-Ship of Theseus, and I really enjoy reading about ships, their explorations, their crews, the communications on them, the details about the ships themselves, the lands they discover, their sinkings, you name it. I want a book like that again. I also love old classical literature.
by LemoNateee
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Christoph Ransmayr, *The Terrors of Ice and Darkness*.
B. Traven, *The Death Ship*.
Chris Buckleys Steaming to Bamboola. Very funny, easy read.
You should read The Odyssey if you haven’t already. Even though a surprisingly small amount of it takes place actually on a ship, it’s been the influence for so many books about disastrous voyages that it’ll make the other books you’re reading more enjoyable.
The second book in the Lies of Locke Lamora series takes place on a boat, and if you’re open to children’s literature so does The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Patrick O’ Brian’s Master and Commander novels are meant to be a great read, and they are all about naval officers and seafaring.
Tress of the Emerald Sea is a good book released this year. After watching The Princess Bride, Brandon Sanderson wrote it on the premise of “What if Buttercup went looking for Wesley?”
Patrick O’Brian and C S Forrester wrote series about the British navy in the era of Napoleon and Wellington, in other words the age of sail.
The Long Ships by Bengtsson,
Mutiny on the Bounty,
The Cruel Sea,
Run Silent Run Deep
Terror written by Dan Simmons
The Terror by Dan Simmons
There is a ton of ship related story telling in the 70 or so books of Clive Cussler.