The current issue of WLT features an interview with Danish writer Carsten Jensen, author of the maritime novel We, the Drowned. Here is a list of recommended maritime fiction by the editors at WLT.
1.
Jens Bjørneboe, The Sharks, tr. Esther Greenleaf Mürer (Norvik, 1992)
2.
John O. Coote, ed., The Norton Book of the Sea, 2 vols. (W. W. Norton, 1989–93)
3.
Jean-Claude Izzo, The Lost Sailors, tr. Howard Curtis (Europa, 2007)
4.
Sena Jeter Naslund, Ahab’s Wife (Harper Perennial, 2000)
5.
Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series from Master and Commander (Lippincott, 1969) through The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (W. W. Norton, 2004)
6.
Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table (Knopf, 2011) (forthcoming in August)
7.
John Peck, Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)
8.
Rafael Sabatini, The Sea-Hawk (Grosset & Dunlap, 1924), Captain Blood (Penguin, 1922), Captain Blood Returns (Houghton Mifflin, 1931), and The Fortunes of Captain Blood (Houghton Mifflin, 1936)
