Start with high-confidence boats & ships books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Into the Raging Sea
Rachel Slade
S.o.s. Titanic
Eve Bunting
Dear Canada: That Fatal Night
Sarah Ellis
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
David Gibbins
In Harm's Way
Michael J Tougias, Doug Stanton
The Lost Boys of Montauk
Amanda M. Fairbanks
