When the year starts, the objective is to win with all the team, personal records are secondary.

Novelist and sailor                          

Selected Works:

Novels:

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life - 1846
Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas - 1847
Mardi: And a Voyage Thither - 1849
Redburn: His First Voyage - 1849
White-Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War - 1850
Moby-Dick, or The Whale - 1851
Pierre: or, The Ambiguities - 1852
Isle of the Cross - ca 1853, since lost
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile - 1856
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade - 1857
Billy Budd, Sailor - An Inside Narrative - 1924

Short stories:

The Piazza Tales - 1856
The Piazza - the only story specifically written for the collection  The other five had previously been published in Putnam's Monthly Magazine
Bartleby the Scrivener
Benito Cereno
The Lightning-Rod Man
The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles
The Bell-Tower

Uncollected:

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1853
Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, June 1854
The Happy Failure - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, July 1854
The Fiddler - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, September 1854
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, April 1855
Jimmy Rose - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, November 1855
The 'Gees - Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1856
I and My Chimney - Putnam's Monthly Magazine, March 1856
The Apple-Tree Table - Putnam's Monthly Magazine, May 1856

Unpublished in Melville's lifetime:

The Two Temples
Daniel Orme

Books:

Battle Pieces and Aspects of the War - 1866
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land - 1876
John Marr and Other Sailors - 1888 Online edition
Timoleon - 1891 Online edition
Weeds and Wildings, and a Rose or Two - 1924

Uncollected or unpublished poems:

Epistle to Daniel Shepherd
Inscription for the Slain at Fredericksburgh
The Admiral of the White
To Tom
Suggested by the Ruins of a Mountain-temple in Arcadia
Puzzlement
The Continents
The Dust-Layers
A Rail Road Cutting near Alexandria in 1855
A Reasonable Constitution
Rammon
A Ditty of Aristippus
In a Nutshell
Adieu

Anthologized poems:

The Maldive Shark
Song from Mardi
Jonah's Song - from Moby-Dick - The ribs and terrors in the whale
The Portent - 1859
Misgivings - 1860
The Conflict of Convictions - 1860-1
Shiloh: A Requiem - April 1862
Malvern Hill - July 1862
The House-top: A Night Piece - July 1863
The Coming Storm A Picture by S R Gifford, and owned by E B Included in the N A Exhibition, April, 1865
Formerly a Slave An idealized Portrait, by E Vedder, in the Spring Exhibition of the National Academy, 1865
America
The Tuft of Kelp
The Berg - A Dream
After the Pleasure Party
The Ravaged Villa
Art
Shelley's Vision
In a Bye-Canal
Pontoosuce
Billy in the Darbies - from Billy Budd
Monody

Essays - all uncollected during Melville's lifetime:

Fragments from a Writing Desk, No 1 - 1839
Fragments from a Writing Desk, No 2 - 1839
Etchings of a Whaling Cruise - March 6, 1847
Authentic Anecdotes of 'Old Zack' - Yankee Doodle, II, weekly [September 4 excepted] from July 24 to September 11, 1847
Mr Parkman's Tour -  March 31, 1849
Cooper's New Novel - April 28, 1849
A Thought on Book-Binding -  March 16, 1850
Hawthorne and His Mosses -  August 17 and August 24, 1850.                          

Mother Maria Gansevoort
Father Allan - three children.                          

By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick - largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public - was rediscovered in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.                          

Paternal grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, an honored survivor of the Boston Tea Party who refused to change the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem "The Last Leaf".