1. Beowulf 2. William Shakespeare: The Tempest 3. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe 4. Tobias George Smollett: The Adventures of Roderick Random 5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 6. Frederick Marryat: Mr. Midshipman Easy 7. Robert Michael Ballantyne: The Coral Island 8. Joseph Conrad: Youth 9. Joseph Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous 10. Sir Henry Newbolt: Drake's Drum 11. Lord Alfred Tennyson: Break, Break, Break~Crossing the Bar 12. Mathew Arnold: Dover Beach 13. John Masefield: Sea-fever 14. John Millington Synge: Riders to the Sea 15. John Banville: TheSea 16. James Fennimore Cooper. The Pilot 17. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Seashore 18. Edgar Allan Poe: The City in the Sea 19. Walt Whitman: OCaptain! My Captain! and others 20. Herman Melville: Moby-Dick 21. Stephen Crane: The Open Boat 22. Mary Heaton Vorse: The Wallow of the Sea 23. Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea 24. Rachel Louise Carson: The Sea Around Us 25. David Hays & Daniel Hays: My Old Man and the Sea