Here is some books I have read and recommend.

• A Voyage for Madmen (Peter Nichols) Amazon.com
• Heavy Weather Sailing (K. Adlard Coles) Amazon.com
  
• Ocean Voyaging (David M. Parker) Amazon.com
• My Old Man and the Sea (David and Dan Hays) Amazon.com
• Storm Tactics(Lin and Larry Pardey) Amazon.com
• After 50,000 miles (Hal Roth) Amazon.com
• How to Sail Around the World (Hal Roth) Amazon.com
• A World to the West (Maurice Cloughly) Amazon.com
• Sailmaker's Apprentice (Emiliano Marino)  Amazon.com
• Sail Power: The Complete Guide to Sails and Sail Handling (Wallace Ross) Amazon.com
• Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing (John Rousmaniere) Amazon.com
• The Long Way (Bernard Moitessier) Amazon.com