The Sea Wolf by Jack London

For our last book of the year, another not that well known classic. When a collision in the San Francisco Bay plunges literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden into the freezing Pacific, he wakes up aboard the Ghost, a seal-hunting schooner captained by the psychopathic, nihilistic, and terrifyingly brilliant Wolf Larsen. Their strange encounter is the story of the book. If all you know fo Jack London is Call of The Wild, this will be an eye opener.