Sailors -- Fiction books

The Adventures of Roderick Random

T. Smollett

The work is a picaresque satire that follows the life of Roderick Random, a North‑British orphan whose…

Sea urchins

W. W. Jacobs

Sea urchins is a bawdy, episodic tale of a rag‑tag crew and a mischievous youngster thrust aboard their…

Man Overboard!

F. Marion Crawford

The opening of Man Overboard! sets the tone for a gritty seafaring yarn that blends the ordinary hazards of…

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Joseph Conrad

Toilers of the sea

Victor Hugo

White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War

Herman Melville

Redburn. His First Voyage Being the Sailor Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-Of-A-Gentleman in the Merchant Navy

Herman Melville

Billy Budd: And Other Prose Pieces

Herman Melville

Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

Herman Melville

Dick Sands, the Boy Captain

Jules Verne

Typee

Herman Melville

Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-man

Bartimeus

Deep Waters

W. W. Jacobs

Odd craft [complete]

W. W. Jacobs

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land

John C. Hutcheson

In Search of Mademoiselle

George Gibbs

Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen

Jules Verne

The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea

Mayne Reid

The Cruise of the Dry Dock

T. S. Stribling

The Adventures of Captain Horn

Frank R. Stockton

The Lady of Lynn

Walter Besant

Paul Gerrard, the Cabin Boy

William Henry Giles Kingston

The Captain's Toll-Gate

Frank R. Stockton

Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor

William Henry Giles Kingston