Big Read 2020: Books

438 Days by Jonathan Franklin

The Amistad Rebellion by Marcus Rediker

Blackbeard by Craig Cabell; Graham A. Thomas; Allan Richards

Black Flags, Blue Waters by Eric Jay Dolin

Captain Ahab Had a Wife by Lisa Norling

The Creole Mutiny by George Hendrick; Willene Hendrick

Dead Wake by Erik Larson

Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea by A.D. Couper, Hance D. Smith, Bruno Ciceri

In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton

The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh; Marcus Rediker

The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger

Sea of Gray by Tom Chaffin

Slavery at Sea by Sowande M. Mustakeem

South by Ernest Henry Shackleton; Frank Hurley (Photographer)

A Speck on the Sea by William H. Longyard

Titanic by Archibald Gracie; John B. Thayer

Voices of Vietnamese Boat People by Mary Terrell Cargill (Editor); Jade Quang Huynh (Editor)

The Wanderer by Erik Calonius

The Whalemen by Edouard A. Stackpole (Adapted by); New Word City Editors (Editor)

Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini; Gary Hoppenstand (Introduction by)

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell; Sara L. Schwebel (Editor)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville; Harrison Hayford; Hershel Parker

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff; James Norman Hall; N. C. Wyeth (Illustrator)

The Odyssey by Robert Fitzgerald

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway; C. F. Tunnicliffe (Illustrator); Raymond Sheppard (Illustrator)

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe; Michael Shinagel

Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett

Black Jacks by W. Jeffrey Bolster

Black Salt by Ray Costello

Red Seas by Gerald Horne

The Revolt of the Whip by Joseph Love

A Speck on the Sea by William H. Longyard

Pirate Women by Laura Sook Duncombe

The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper

Black Hands, White Sails by Patricia C. McKissack; Fredrick L. McKissack

A Pirate's Life for She by Laura Sook Duncombe

Revenge of the Whale by Nathaniel Philbrick

Titanic by Simon Adams; Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff

The Whydah by Martin W. Sandler

How I Became A Pirate by Melinda Long; David Shannon (Illustrator)

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

Pirate Pete's Talk Like a Pirate by Kim Kennedy; Doug Kennedy (Illustrator)

Pirate Queen: the Legend of Grace O'Malley by Tony Lee; Sam Hart (Illustrator)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis; Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)

The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg