FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin As we close out 2025, it feels like the right moment to pause, reflect, and share the books that stayed with us long after the final page. This year’s reading list spans safety, seamanship, leadership, human behavior, and personal resilience; topics that resonate deeply with life at sea and within the wider maritime industry. Whether you are a seafarer, shore-based professional, trainer, or manager, these seven books offered insights that are both intellectually stimulating and practically useful. They also happen to make meaningful gifts for colleagues, crews, and anyone invested in safer, more humane shipping. RelatedNews Pilbara Ports: Best practices for gangway related activities Liberia issues advisory highlighting hazards of fumigation using phosphide var jnews_module_21361367_0_6a04e3454360b = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21361367","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"2891,458,2195,4295","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disa