18 books like Raise the Titanic!

What to read after Raise the Titanic! — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Valhalla Rising Clive Cussler · 2001 · ★ 4.3 · 543p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Marine explorer Dirk Pitt must rely on the nautical lore of Jules Verne to stop a ruthless oil baron with his sights set on political power in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series. In the middle of its maiden voyage, a luxury cruise ship using revolutionary new engines suddenly catches fire and sinks. Its alarms stay silent; its sprinkler system remains inactive. Nearby NUMA special… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt, Shipwrecks, Adventure

The Mediterranean Caper Clive Cussler · 1973 · ★ 4.2 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler.On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base--a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition--and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring. Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt

Arctic Drift Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler · 1716 · ★ 4.4 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Demanding A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt

Nichts ist stärker als die Liebe Danielle Steel · 1981 · ★ 4.1 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Een jonge vrouw die door het vergaan van de Titanic in 1912 ouders en verloofde verliest, neemt de zorg voor haar broertjes en zusjes op zich. Shares: Titanic, Shipwrecks

Black Wind Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler · 2004 · ★ 4.3 · 527p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Legendary oceanographer Dirk Pitt must work with his children to unravel old battle plans from WWII to prevent a present-day massacre in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure series. In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure. Kept secret from all but a few select officials, two submarines were sent to the West Coast of the United States,… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt, Adventure

Atlantis Found Clive Cussler · 1999 · ★ 4.0 · 539p · ≈ 17h · Moderate An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck—her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure. A team of anthropologists is buried under a mountain by a deliberate explosion. A ship that should have died fifty-six years ago reappears, and almost sinks a National Underwater and Marine Agency ship. Dirk Pitt knows that somehow these events are connected. His investigations lead to an ancient… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt, Adventure

Callander Square Anne Perry · 1980 · ★ 3.9 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Everyone on Callander Square has something to hide—but someone will kill to keep a secret When two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square gardens, the upper-class residents dismiss the burials as the desperate act of a low-born girl and resent the intrusion of Inspector Thomas Pitt into their well-ordered lives. Pitt is not convinced that the case should be so easily dropped. Also… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt

Treasure of Khan Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler · 2006 · ★ 4.3 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Genghis Khan the greatest conqueror of all time, who at his peak ruled an empire four times the size of Alexander the Great's, a vast expanse which stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. And now somebody wants it back. Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew are about to come head to head with their most dangerous ever enemy. A mysterious Mongolian mogul harbors a dream of restoring the… Shares: Dirk Pitt, Pitt

Tonight on the Titanic Mary Pope Osborne · 1999 · ★ 4.1 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Moderate The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie to the deck of the Titanic to find a mysterious gift that will free a small dog from a magic spell. Shares: Titanic, Shipwrecks

Trojan Odysey Clive Cussler · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 485p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Long hailed as the grand master of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels. Now, with a surprising twist, he gives us his most audacious work yet.In the final pages of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known - twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins… Shares: Pitt, Adventure

Relato de un náufrago Gabriel García Márquez · 1970 · ★ 3.9 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Moderate On t.p.: . . . who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time. Shares: Shipwrecks, Sea Stories

When the World Shook H. Rider Haggard · 1919 · ★ 3.6 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Depicts the adventure of three Englishmen who uncover a pair of 250,000 year old super-humans in suspended animation. The super-humans, awakened, view Europe in the midst of the First World War and decide that human civilization must be destroyed. Shares: Shipwrecks, Adventure

Le Chancellor Jules Verne · 1875 · 62p · ≈ 2h · Challenging The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger () is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary). Shares: Shipwrecks, Adventure

The Terror Dan Simmons · 2007 · ★ 4.1 · 768p · ≈ 25h · Moderate The bestselling author of Ilium transforms the story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a devastating historical adventure that will chill you to your core.The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition – as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth – and theirs were… Shares: Shipwrecks, Sea Stories

The Man Without a Country Edward Everett Hale · 1865 · ★ 3.8 · 106p · ≈ 3h · Challenging The story of a U.S. Navy officer involved in the treason of Aaron Burr. Shares: Sea Stories, Adventure

Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens · 1968 · ★ 3.5 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A collection of ten traditional tales of Irish heroes, kings, soldiers, magicians, poets, and madmen. Shares: Sea Stories

Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 · ★ 3.8 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound… Shares: Shipwrecks, Adventure

Typhoon Fury Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison · 2017 · ★ 4.3 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate As they hunt for a bunch of paintings worth a walloping half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew aboard the Oregon chance upon a much bigger problem. A Filipino rebel leader is not only using them to finance the insurgency but has discovered a drug developed yet never used by the Japanese during World War II that makes mega warriors of ordinary soldiers. Not so far-fetched given the… Shares: Sea Stories, Adventure

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