AOS Other Nautical Fiction Book List

When doing research for historic naval fiction books to add to this site I often find ones about merchant ships and other stories set in the age of sail. Some of these may be of interest to naval fiction fans so I am adding them to this index.

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• Abdul Aziz al Mahmoud
  • The Holy Sail
• Alan Gould
  • The Man Who Stayed Below
• Alan Paxton
  • The Long Haul
• Alaric Bond
  • The Guinea Boat
  • Turn a Blind Eye
• Alec Merrill
  • A Smuggler's Nightmare
  • Fighting Shadows
  • Swift Revenge
  • The Virgin Smuggler
• Alexander Laing
  • Jonathan Eagle
  • Matthew Early
  • The Sea Witch
• Alfred Picardi
  • Jack's Favorite: Adventures of a Colonial Smuggler
• Andrew R. Welsh
  • Maiden's Enchantment
  • Maiden's Voyage
• Andrew Wareham
  • Foreign Mud
  • Nobody's Child
• Antony Trew
  • The White Schooner
• Arthur Lee Knight
  • Drifted to Sea
• Avi
  • Gold Rush Girl
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
• Beverly Byrne
  • The Adventurer
  • The Outcast
• Bruce Alexander
  • Watery Grave
• Bruce Stewart
  • The Turning Tide
• C. E. Bowman
  • Tradewinds: A Tale of the Caribbean
• C. S. Forester
  • To the Indies
• Charles Boardman Hawes
  • The Great Quest
  • The Mutineers
• Chris Scott Wilson
  • Sunset be Glory
• Christopher Kenworthy
  • Against a Dark Shore
  • In the Dark of the Moon
  • Ride the Dark Tide
  • Storm In The Dark
• Cyril Abraham
  • The High Seas
  • The Iron Ships
  • The Shipmaster
  • The Trade Winds
  • The White Ships
• Cyrus Townsend Brady
  • A Book of Sea Stories
  • Waif-o-the-Sea; A Romance of the Great Deep
• D. J. Munro
  • Slave to Fortune
• Darlene Marshall
  • Castaway Dreams
  • Sea Change
  • Smuggler's Bride
• David W. Bone
  • The Brassbounder
• David Wesley Hill
  • At Drake's Command
• Don Berry
  • To Build a Ship
• Donald Bray
  • Between Two Shores
  • The Captain's Wife
• Douglas Stanhope
  • Sea Urchin's First Charter
  • Sea Urchin's Last Charter
  • Sea Urchin's Second Charter
  • Sea Urchin's Third Charter
• Douglas V. Duff
  • More Yarns of a Shellback
  • Powder and Shot
  • Spunyarn: More True Tales of Heroism and Villainy at Sea
  • The Cannons Roar
  • Yarns of a Shellback: Strange, True Tales of the Sea
• E. Van Johnson
  • Lost to the Sea: A Colonial Venture
  • Lost to the Sea: An Indian Affair
  • Lost to the Sea: Dawn Clipper
  • Lost to the Sea: Letters of Marque
  • Lost to the Sea: Marooned
  • Lost to the Sea: Orphaned, Apprenticed, Pressed and Prized
  • Lost to the Sea: Recalled to the Colours
  • Lost to the Sea: Shipwrecked
• Ed Hickok
  • The Island of Two Skulls
• Edgar Pickering
  • An Old-Time Yarn
  • The Cruise of the Angel
• Edward Howard
  • Outward Bound: A Merchant's Adventures
• Edwin P. Hoyt
  • The Terrible Voyage
• Ellen Argo
  • The Crystal Star
• Eric Corder
  • Slave Ship
• Erick Berry
  • Go and Find Wind
• F. Van Wyck Mason
  • Harpoon in Eden
  • Log Cabin Noble
  • The Sea 'Venture
• Frank Eccles
  • Fifty Thousand Overcoats
• Frank Thomas Bullen
  • A Bounty Boy
  • A Sack of Shakings
  • A Whaleman's Wife
  • Deep Sea Plunderings
  • The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales
• Fred Cooper
  • A Master Mariner's Tale
• Frederick Marryat
  • Masterman Ready
  • Percival Keene
  • Snarleyyow (The Dog Fiend)
  • The Phantom Ship
  • The Three Cutters
• G. L. Tysk
  • Paradise
  • The Sea-God at Sunrise
• Garland Roark
  • Fair Wind to Java
  • Rainbow in the Royals
  • Slant of the Wild Wind
  • Tales of the Caribbean
  • The Lady and the Deep Blue Sea
  • The Wreck of the Running Gale
  • Wake of the Red Witch
• Gene Hackman & Daniel Lenihan
  • Wake of the Perdido Star
• Geoff Woodland
  • Ice King
• George Chittenden
  • The Boy Who Felt No Pain
  • The Boy Who Led Them
• George Forbes
  • Adventures In Southern Seas, or A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
• George Manville Fenn
  • Sail-ho!, or, A boy at Sea
  • The Ocean Cat's Paw
• Glen Craney
  • The Virgin of the Wind Rose
• Glynn Adams
  • Ice Ship
• Greta Van der Rol
  • Die a Dry Death
• Griff Hosker
  • East Indiaman
• H. N. Turteltaub
  • Over the Wine-dark Sea
  • Owls to Athens
  • The Gryphon's Skull
  • The Sacred Land
• Harold Calin
  • Black Cargo
  • Slave Ship
• Harry Collingwood
  • Across the Spanish Main
  • For Treasure Bound
  • The Castaways
  • The Cruise of the "Esmeralda”
  • The Missing Merchantman
  • Turned Adrift
  • Two Gallant Sons of Devon: A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
• Harry Thompson
  • This Thing of Darkness
• Henry Carlisle
  • The Jonah Man
• Herman Melville
  • Moby Dick
• Howard Breslin
  • The Silver Oar
• Ian McGuire
  • The North Water
• Inglis Fletcher
  • Lusty Wind for Carolina
  • Rogue's Harbor
• J. MacDonald Oxley
  • Baffling The Blockade
  • In the Swing of the Sea
  • The Wreckers of Sable Island
• James Clavell
  • Tai-Pan
• James Dillon White
  • The Tall Ship
• James Fenimore Cooper
  • Afloat and Ashore: or The Adventures of Miles Wallingford
  • Miles Wallingford
  • The Sea Lions, or, The Lost Sealers
  • The Water-Witch: Or the Skimmer of the Seas
• Jane Jackson
  • Dangerous Waters
  • Devil's Prize
  • Tide of Fortune
• Jenny Barden
  • Mistress of the Sea
  • The Lost Duchess
• Jim Crace
  • Signals of Distress
• Joan Druett
  • A Love of Adventure
  • A Promise of Gold
  • Calafia’s Kingdom
  • Dearest Enemy
  • Finale
  • Judas Island
  • The Money Ship
• Joe Follansbee
  • Bet: Stowaway Daughter
• Johanna Craven
  • The Dutchman
• John Davis
  • Jack Ariel, or, Life on Board an Indiaman
• John Jennings
  • Chronicle of the Calypso, Clipper
  • The Wind in His Fists
• John Lesterman
  • A Pair Of Rovers
  • The Second Mate Of The Myradale
• John Regan
  • A Singular Captain
• Joyce A. Scott
  • Sea Captain's Promise
  • Sea Captain's Promise II: Revenge of the Sea Witch
• Kathryn Hulme
  • Annie's Captain
• Kenneth D. Schultz
  • Drake's Botanist
  • Magellan's Navigator
  • The King's Galley
  • The Sultan's Galley
• Kenneth Roberts
  • Boon Island
• Kester John Bathgate
  • Perilous Beginnings
  • Unfinished Business
• Lilian Gafni
  • A Safe Haven
  • The Alhambra Decree
  • The New World
• Linda Collison
  • Water Ghosts
• Louis B. Davidson & Eddie Doherty
  • Captain Marooner
• Lyle Garford
  • The Sugar Sands
  • The Sugar Storm
• M. C. Muir
  • Sea Dust
• Mark Adlard
  • The Greenlander
• Mary Dahl
  • Free Souls
• Mary Johnston
  • 1492
• Mel Keegan
  • Fortunes of War
  • The Deceivers
• Mel McIlveen
  • Treachery and Treason in Canada's Sealing Fleet
• Michael Aye
  • The Smuggler's Spy
  • The Smugglers of Deal
• N. Beetham Stark
  • Condor: Flying in Drake's Wake
• N. Jay Young
  • A Ship's Tale
• Naomi J. Williams
  • Landfalls
• Nick Korolev
  • Storm Warning
• Norman Collins
  • Black Ivory
• Pamela Grimm
  • Destiny's Freedom
  • Destiny's Gold
• Patrick Easter
  • Cuckold Point
  • The Rising Tide
  • The River of Fire
  • The Watermen
• Paul Thomas Fuhrman
  • The Downeaster: Deadly Voyage
• Paul Weston
  • Weymouth Bound
• Percy F. Westerman
  • A Lad of Grit
  • Missing, Believed Lost
  • The Mystery of the Key
  • The Quest of the "Golden Hope"
• Peter Brooks
  • World Elsewhere
• Peter Hancock
  • Dead Men's Dreaming
• Peter Wickloe
  • Bullen of the 'Brigadier'
  • Casper Clinton: China Coaster
  • South Seas of Peril
  • The Yellow Ship
  • To the Coasts of Barbary
• Philip McCutchan
  • Storm South
  • Tom Chatto, Apprentice
• Randy Deering
  • Tempest Driven
• Richard Butler
  • The Men that God Forgot
• Richard S. Philbrick
  • Adversity's Wake: The Calamitous Fourth Voyage of Christopher Columbus
• Richard Woodman
  • A River in Borneo
  • Beyond Madagascar: A Bold & Consequential Voyage
  • The Disastrous Voyage of the Santa Margarita
  • Under Sail
  • Wager
  • Waterfront
• Rick Spilman
  • Bloody Rain: Murder, Madness & the Monsoon
  • Hell Around the Horn
  • The Shantyman
• Robert Challoner
  • Jamaica Passage
• Robert Evans
  • Barbary Slave
• Robert M. Ballantyne
  • Battles with the Sea
  • Black Ivory
  • Coral Island
  • Fast in the Ice
  • Fighting the Whales
  • Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader
  • Man on the Ocean
  • Saved by the Lifeboat
  • Sunk at Sea
  • The Crew of the Water Wagtail
  • The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands
  • The Life of a Ship
  • The Lifeboat
  • The Lively Poll
  • The Red Eric: Or the Whaler's Last Cruise
  • The World of Ice
  • The Young Trawler
• Robin Hobb
  • Ship of Destiny
  • Ship of Magic
  • The Mad Ship
• Roger Burnage
  • The Fateful Voyage
• Sam Llewellyn
  • Hell Bay
• Seymour Hamilton
  • Angel's Share
  • Astreya: The Men of the Sea
  • Astreya: The Voyage South
  • Astreya: The Wanderer's Curse
  • Ellie
  • River of Stones
• Steph Minns
  • One Man Drowning
• Stephen W. Meader
  • Away to Sea
  • The Voyage of the Javelin
  • Whaler 'Round the Horn
• T. D. Matzenik
  • Song of the Mokihana
• Terry Mort
  • The Voyage of the Parzival
• Thomas Guay
  • Chesapeake Bound: An Annapolis Novel
• Thomas Hoover
  • The Moghul
• Tony Junker
  • Tunnell's Boys
• Victor Suthren
  • Canadian Stories of the Sea
• Vivian Stuart a.k.a. William Stuart Long
  • The Seafarers
• W. H. G. Kingston
  • A Voyage Round the World
  • Peter the Whaler
  • The South Sea Whaler
  • The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader
• William Bertram
  • 1756 Ben Brown and the Smugglers
  • 1779 Billy Brown Cometh the Man...
• William Clark Russell
  • A Book for the Hammock
  • A Marriage at Sea
  • A Noble Haul
  • A Sailor's Sweetheart
  • A Sea Queen
  • A Strange Elopement
  • A Strange Voyage
  • A Voyage at Anchor
  • Abandoned
  • An Ocean Tragedy
  • Heart of Oak: A Three-Stranded Yarn
  • His Island Princess
  • In the Middle Watch
  • Jack's Courtship: A Sailor's Yarn of Love and Shipwreck
  • John Holdsworth: Chief Mate
  • List, Ye Landsmen!
  • Marooned
  • Master Rockafellar's Voyage
  • My Danish Sweetheart
  • My Shipmate Louise: The Romance of a Wreck
  • My Watch Below: Or, Yarns Spun when Off Duty
  • On the Fo'k'sle Head
  • Rose Island: The Strange Story of Love Adventure at Sea
  • Round the Galley Fire
  • The Captain's Wife
  • The Convict Ship
  • The Death Ship
  • The Emigrant Ship
  • The Frozen Pirate
  • The Golden Hope
  • The Good Ship Mohock
  • The Honour of the Flag
  • The Mystery of the Ocean Star
  • The Phantom Death and Other Stories
  • The Romance of a Midshipman
  • The Romance of Jenny Harlowe: And Sketches of Maritime Life
  • The Ship's Adventure
  • The Tale of the Ten: A Salt-Water Romance
  • The Tragedy of Ida Noble
  • The Wreck of the "Grosvenor"
  • What Cheer!: The Sad Story of a Wicked Sailor
• William Napier
  • Clash of Empires: The Red Sea