Read Across America Day is celebrated annually on March 2nd, Dr. Seuss’s birthday, as a way to encourage reading, especially among children. We thought we’d put our own maritime twist on the day and share a curated recommended reading list from our staff and instructors. In no particular order, these are books that have inspired our crew throughout their personal lives and careers one way or another.
We hope you find them to be as inspirational and enjoyable as we did!
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (Author), Nathaniel Philbrick (Introduction)
- Start With Why : How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action by Simon Sinek
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Leadership Challenge by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
- No Limits by John C. Maxwell
- How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- Leaders Eat Last : Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek
- Two Years Before The Mast by R.H. Dana
- Moby Dick by H. Melville
- Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder
- Into Thin Air by J. Krakauer
- Flying Cloud by David W. Shaw
- Standard Seamanship for the Merchant Service by Felix Riesenberg
- Count Luckner, the Sea Devil by Lowell Thomas
- Master of the Girl Pat by Dod Orsborne
- Half-Safe by Ben Carlin
- Until the Sea Shall Set Them Free by Robert Frump
- Switch by Dan and Chip Heath
- Longitude by Dava Sobel
- A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- The Pioneers by David McCullough
- What Would Google Do by Jeff Jarvis
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