@neauoire This is an eclectic mix, though I'm not sure whether they're suited to 'reading out-loud':

On Walking On Ice by Werner Herzog

A Year With Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno

Red Paint by Sasha LaPointe

Biography Of X by Catherine Lacey

Woman At Sea by Catherine Poulain

We, The Navigators by David Lewis

A Sea Vagabond’s World by Bernard Moitessier

The Theory Of The Solitary Sailor by Gilles Grelet