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I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,965 ratings — published 2007
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,793,087 ratings — published 2001
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,387,195 ratings — published 1952
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.58 — 638,857 ratings — published 1851
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,618,249 ratings — published 2022
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.94 — 64,226 ratings — published 2015
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,021 ratings — published 2023
The Brilliant Abyss (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,056 ratings — published 2021
The Rainbow Fish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.21 — 167,425 ratings — published 1992
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.66 — 148,965 ratings — published 2022
The Pout-Pout Fish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.33 — 18,125 ratings — published 2008
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.93 — 50,103 ratings — published 2017
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.88 — 286,238 ratings — published 1869
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,319 ratings — published 1951
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,035 ratings — published 2016
The Commotion in the Ocean (Picture Books)
by (shelved 42 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,414 ratings — published 1998
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,713 ratings — published 2014
Flotsam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.24 — 27,263 ratings — published 2006
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.12 — 55,217 ratings — published 2024
Hooray for Fish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,359 ratings — published 2005
A House for Hermit Crab (Stories to Go!)
by (shelved 39 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,136 ratings — published 1987
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,857 ratings — published 2010
This Is Not My Hat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,727 ratings — published 2012
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.16 — 245,847 ratings — published 2023
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.17 — 124,170 ratings — published 2000
The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,242 ratings — published 2023
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,345 ratings — published 2022
Hello Lighthouse (Caldecott Medal Winner) (Sophie Blackall’s House Stories, 1)
by (shelved 33 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.38 — 7,976 ratings — published 2018
Timmy der Wal: Botschaften aus dem Meer (German Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.98 — 41 ratings — published
Don't Worry, Little Crab (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,593 ratings — published 2019
Barnacle Is Bored (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,179 ratings — published 2016
Whalefall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.68 — 44,446 ratings — published 2023
Swashby and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,732 ratings — published 2020
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.85 — 558,259 ratings — published 1882
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea (Narwhal and Jelly, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,177 ratings — published 2016
From Below (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.93 — 21,052 ratings — published 2022
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,034 ratings — published 2019
To Kill a Kingdom (Hundred Kingdoms, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.70 — 215,247 ratings — published 2018
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 27 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,615 ratings — published 2017
I'm a Shark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,896 ratings — published 2011
Mister Seahorse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,360 ratings — published 2004
The Ocean Calls: A Haenyeo Mermaid Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.15 — 868 ratings — published 2020
My Ocean Is Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.95 — 455 ratings — published 2020
The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.86 — 896 ratings — published 2007
Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.20 — 649 ratings — published 2004
Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as ocean)
avg rating 3.90 — 527 ratings — published 2004
Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,659 ratings — published 2021
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (Bloomsbury Sigma)
by (shelved 24 times as ocean)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,152 ratings — published 2015
“if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
―
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
―
“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.
It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray.
At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.
But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”
―
It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray.
At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing.
But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”
―
