The Sea
Best Sea BooksTony Tanner's Top 12 Sea Books
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe (1719)
James Fenimore Cooper
The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea (1824)
Herman Melville
Moby Dick (1851)
Joseph Conrad
The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897) and Lord Jim (1900)
Jack London
The Sea-Wolf (1904)
Herman Wouk
The Caine Mutiny (1951)
Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Katherine Anne Porter
Ship of Fools (1962)
Patrick O'Brian
Master and Commander (1970)
William Golding
Rites of Passage (1980)
Tony Tanner (ed.)
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (1995)
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Literature Reference: American Literature, English Literature, Classics & Modern FictionAuthors on FictionThe sea: Tony Tanner