This site http://www.bookmarksmagazine.com/Crackerjack/Crackerjack1to20.html has the 100 top books about the sea. My all time favorite is "And the sea will tell"; I forget the author. I'll dig it up. The number 101 on the list is: 101 Jaws (1974) Peter Benchley. The book that sparked Steven Spielberg's filmmaking career is still a terrific read. Essentially a retelling of Melville's Moby-Dick, Benchley's novel pits the town of Amity against a great white shark, and the 5,000-pound shark steals the show. Benchley's in-depth research on the fish that never sleeps is as terrifying as it is captivating.

Vincent Bugliosi wrote the Sea will Tell. Here's the amazon review. Amazon.com And the Sea Will Tell spins a riveting story--a story that could have been the backbone for a classic novel by Herman Melville or Joseph Conrad. Two couples--one wealthy and married, the other an ex-con and his hippie girlfriend-- separately set sail for a remote South Pacific island, each hoping to play "Adam and Eve" in paradise. Instead of getting away from it all, they take it with them-- their pasts and prejudices, and the petty battles over status and material goods that arise from their different social classes. Only two people out of the original four live through the experience. One of them has the extraordinary good luck to be defended in court by master attorney Vincent Bugliosi (author of Helter Skelter). As the Los Angeles Times writes, "The book succeeds on all counts. The final pages are some of the most suspenseful in trial literature." But it didn't make the top 101 list. Too pulpy I guess.