Great Tales of Ships, Seas, and Islands

Ahoy mates! I have had a little lending library breakthrough! I like to have special collections in my library but it takes a while to collect up enough books on a certain theme to fill it up. So . . . I thought of having a book bin inside the library that contains the collection (it fits up to 15-20 books) while the rest of the box is stuffed full with all sorts of other good books. It's much more doable and offers more variety. Yay!

My new collection is one that I have been excitedly working on:  great books about ships, seas, and islands. Here are my titles on hand, all great reads:

The Odyssey
Gulliver's Travels
Robinson Crusoe
The Voyage of the Beagle
Treasure Island
The Old Man and the Sea
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Billy Budd
Moby Dick
Lord of the Flies
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Sea Wolf
Life of Pi
A Night to Remember
Mutiny on the Bounty
The Borrowers Afloat
The Cay

That's all I can squeeze into my bin for now. Meanwhile I am scanning my local thrift stores for copies to lend of these additional favorites:
A High Wind in Jamaica
Blue Skin of the Sea
The Island of the Colorblind

On my personal want-to-read list are:
Master and Commander
Horatio Hornblower
Two Years Before the Mast

Summer is a great time to weigh that anchor and set sail, bookwise!