📚 Shipwrecks

The literature of loss at sea: disasters, rescues, salvage, and the archaeology of what the water gave back.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject shipwrecks in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Shipwreck, a poem	William Falconer	1762	78
	La Nuit du Titanic	Walter Lord	1955	64
	The Truth about the Titanic	Archibald Gracie	1913	38
	In the Heart of the Sea	Nathaniel Philbrick	2000	38
	Story of the Wreck of the Titanic	Marshall Everett	1912	26
	Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters	Logan Marshall	1912	24
	Adrift Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea	Steven Callahan	1920	23
	Titanic (DK Eyewitness Books)	Simon Adams	1999	21
	Sinking of the Titanic	Jay Henry Mowbray	1912	19
	The Sea Hunters	Clive Cussler	1996	18
	Titanic	Mary Pope Osborne	2002	14
	Ship of gold in the deep blue sea	Gary Kinder	1998	13
	The finest hours	Michael J. Tougias	2009	12
	Skeleton coast	John H. Marsh	1944	9
	Revenge of the Whale	Nathaniel Philbrick	2002	9
	Staying alive	Maurice Bailey	1974	8
	Red Sky In Mourning	Tami Oldham Ashcraft	1998	8
	Wager	David Grann	2023	8
	The wreck of the whaleship Essex	Owen Chase	1965	6
	Titanic	Donald Lynch	1992	6
	Capsized	James Nalepka	1992	6
	Albatross	Deborah Scaling Kiley	1994	6
	Titanic	Judith B. Geller	1998	6
	Avoid Sailing on a 19th-century Whaling Ship!	Peter Cook	2004	6
	Titanic survivor	Violet Jessop	1997	5
	Batavia's Graveyard	Mike Dash	2002	5
	After the Storm	John Rousmaniere	2002	5
	438 Days	Jonathan Franklin	2015	5
	Without a Trace	Charles Berlitz	1977	4
	Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces	Burton Beers	1991	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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