In this post I list books about long distance sailing, that I have read over the years. Most of them are about circumnavigation, and most have been written by the sailors themselves. They are almost invariably well written, and make good reading.
| Author | Title | Year | Publisher | Comments |
| Brunborg, Erling og Carl Emil Pettersen | Rundø | |||
| Dekker, Laura | One Girl One Dream | 2013 | Harper Collins | |
| Enoksen, Arne Mikal | Capricornus | |||
| Kvam, Ragnar | Oppbrudd | |||
| Kvam, Ragnar | Havet har meg nå | |||
| Kvam, Ragnar | En sjøreise til Sibir | |||
| Graham, Robin Lee | Dove | |||
| Slocum, Joshua | Sailing alone around the world | |||
| Coleman, Heyward | Where the wind blows | Middelhavet | ||
| Coleman, Heyward | The Next port | Stillehavet | ||
| Pincher, Michael Chapman | Long lost log | 2022 | ||
| Manry, Robert | Tinkerbelle | 1965 | Atlanterhavet | |
| Baldwin, James | The next distant sea | 2018 | ||
| Callahan, Steven | Adrift | 1986 | Atlanterhavet | |
| Dana, R. H. | Two years before the mast | 1912 | Rundt Sør-Amerika frå aust til vest | |
| Nack, Leslie Johansen | Fourteen. A daughter’s memoir of adventure | 2015 | ||
| Eakin, Chris | A race too far | |||
| Knox-Johnsen, Alex | A world of my own | |||
| Gorman, Denis | A voyage to the sea | 2016 | ||
| Trimble, Mary E. | Sailing with Impunity | 1963, 1999 | ||
| Kretshmer, John | Sailing a serious ocean | 2014 | ||
| Moitessier, Bernard | The long way | |||
| Guzzwell, John | Trekka round the world | |||
| Pardey, Lin & Larry | Cruising in Seraffyn | 1976, 2001 | ||
| Pardey, Lin & Larry | Seraffyn’s European Adventure | 1979 | ||
| Pardey, Lin & Larry | Seraffyn’s Mediterranean Adventure | 1981 | ||
| Pardey, Lin & Larry | Seraffyn’s Oriental Adventure | 1996 | ||
| Pardey, Lin & Larry | Taleisin’s Tales | 2017 | ||
| Payson, Herb | Blown away | 1980, 2015 | ||
| Kopar, Istvan | Kihivas. Alone at the Ends of the Earth | 2015 | ||
| Page, Rick and Jasna Tuta | Get Real Get Gone. How to Become a Modern Sea Gypsy and Sail Forever | 2015 | ||
| Smeeton, Miles | Once is Enough | 1959 | ||
| Parry, Jackie | This is it. 2 Hemispheres, 2 people, and 1 boat. | 2015 | ||
| Bergreen, Laurence | Over the Edge of the World | Harper Collins | Om Magellean | |
| Holt, Henry | Around the World in Six Years | 2016 |
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