Here are some of my favorites under non-fiction:
- A Voyage For Madmen
- Two Years Before the Mast (by Richard Henry Dana)
- Flirting With Mermaids (by John Kretschmer)
- At the Mercy of the Sea (by John Kretschmer)
- Desperate Voyage (by Caldwell)
- North to the Night (by Alvah Simon)
- Dove (by Robin Lee Graham)
- Once is Enough (by Smeeton)
- Alone Through the Roaring Forties (by Dumas)
- Atlantic High (by William F. Buckley, Jr.)
- Fair Wind & Plenty of It (by Rigel Crockett)
- In the Heart of the Sea (by Nathaniel Philbrick)
- Sea of Glory (by Nathaniel Philbrick)
- Taking on the World (by Ellen MacArthur)
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea, A Life of Christopher Columbus (by Samuel Eliot Morison)
- Wooden Boats (by Michael Ruhlman)