Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World
For the Aubrey buff
Arthur Herman: To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.)
Rule Britannia
Cap'N Fatty Goodlander: Chasing The Horizon: The Life And Times Of A Modern Sea Gypsy
Caroline Alexander: The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Great account of Shackleton's famous voyage with Frank Hurley's pictures
Caroline Alexander: The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Fletcher Christian was a tosser and Bligh was stitched up.
David Hays: My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn
Quite moving
Derek Lundy: The Way of a Ship: A Square-Rigger Voyage in the Last Days of Sail
What life onboard a working tall ship was really like.
Griff Rhys Jones: To the Baltic with Bob: An Epic Misadventure
John Rousmaniere: A Berth to Bermuda: One Hundred Years of the World's Classic Ocean Race
Coffee-table book for the romantic sailor
Patrick O'Brian: The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels
If you haven't read them, the long winter months is a good time to start
Richard Zacks: The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli thing
Rob Mundle: Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race
Enough to put you off sailing part deux
Stephen Biesty: Man-Of-War : Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections
Hours of fun. A cross--section through a Man-of-War. Where's Waldo for sailing nerds
Theo Dorgan: Sailing for Home
Recommended by Liam
Tony Horwitz: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Retracing Cook's voyage with cocktails
Tony Horwitz: Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Tristan Jones: Outward Leg
If you haven't read Tristan Jones, this is a beauty
Various: The Greatest Sailing Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Seven Unforgettable Stories (Greatest)
Great compiltaion of short stories
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