Raise the Titanic!

#115 in Adventure

Raise the Titanic!

Clive Cussler

First published 1976Original language EN

7.77.7 / 10
Score out of 1095 ratingsConfidence 39%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
#115 of 180 in Adventure ahead of 36% of the category
373
Pages
about 7 h
Reading time

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Our view

“Raise the Titanic!” is a bold, large-scale adventure built around lifting the wreck of the great liner to recover a rare mineral from its hold. Readers of the earlier Dirk Pitt books may find it a clear step forward, with the hero given depth and a fuller backstory, though some find its treatment of women sexist.

The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.

About the book

Raise the Titanic! is a 1976 adventure novel by Clive Cussler, published in the United States by the Viking Press. It tells the story of efforts to bring the remains of the ill-fated ocean liner RMS Titanic to the surface of the Atlantic Ocean in order to recover a stockpile of an exotic mineral that was being carried aboard.

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Reading order · Dirk Pitt

Full order & progress →
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    The Mediterranean Caper1973 · 89 ratingsStart here
    7.47.4 / 10
  2. Iceberg
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    7.67.6 / 10
  3. Raise the Titanic!
    Raise the Titanic!1976 · 95 ratingsThis book
    7.77.7 / 10
  4. Vixen 03
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    7.87.8 / 10
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    7.77.7 / 10
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    7.67.6 / 10
  7. Deep Six
    Deep Six1984 · 131 ratings
    7.87.8 / 10
  8. Cyclops
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    7.87.8 / 10
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    7.87.8 / 10
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    7.97.9 / 10
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    7.87.8 / 10
  13. Shock Wave
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  14. Flood Tide
    Flood Tide1997 · 54 ratings
    7.57.5 / 10
  15. Atlantis Found
    Atlantis Found1999 · 85 ratings
    7.77.7 / 10
  16. Valhalla Rising
    Valhalla Rising2001 · 61 ratings
    7.67.6 / 10
  17. Trojan Odyssey
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  18. Black Wind
    Black Wind2004 · 81 ratings
    7.67.6 / 10
  19. Treasure of Khan
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  20. Arctic Drift
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  21. Crescent Dawn
    Crescent Dawn2010 · 30 ratings · Not ranked yet
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  22. Poseidon's Arrow
    Poseidon's Arrow2012 · 22 ratings · Not ranked yet
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  23. Havana Storm
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  24. Odessa Sea
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  25. Celtic Empire
    Celtic Empire2019 · 17 ratings · Not ranked yet
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  26. Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea
    Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea2021 · Not ranked yet
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  27. Clive Cussler's The Corsican Shadow
    Clive Cussler's The Corsican Shadow2023 · Not ranked yet
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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.5 across 95 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 39% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Adventure average of 7.8. That is how 7.7 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library8.09 10%
Hardcover7.486 91%

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How long is Raise the Titanic!?

It has 373 pages — longer than 51% of the ranked books in Adventure.

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