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Oceanic Books
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Whalefall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.68 — 33,916 ratings — published 2023
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,854 ratings — published 2017
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.57 — 629,670 ratings — published 1851
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.67 — 141,016 ratings — published 2022
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,828 ratings — published 2022
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,962 ratings — published 2000
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,800 ratings — published 2023
Sphere (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.84 — 201,446 ratings — published 1987
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,355,719 ratings — published 1952
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,566 ratings — published 2020
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,777,647 ratings — published 2001
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,258 ratings — published 1997
Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 12,589 ratings — published 2015
Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,138 ratings — published 2023
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,925 ratings — published 2022
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,209 ratings — published 1951
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,534 ratings — published 2014
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.24 — 82,593 ratings — published 2023
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,309 ratings — published 1869
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.65 — 426 ratings — published 2023
The Salt Grows Heavy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.53 — 32,183 ratings — published 2023
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,497,228 ratings — published 2022
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,832 ratings — published 2019
Starfish (Rifters, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,795 ratings — published 1999
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.97 — 63,600 ratings — published 1798
From Below (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,424 ratings — published 2022
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.93 — 247,521 ratings — published 2017
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.01 — 70,888 ratings — published 2021
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,598 ratings — published 1995
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,451 ratings — published 2015
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,237,312 ratings — published -700
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,539 ratings — published 2017
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.98 — 35,626 ratings — published 2016
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.01 — 7,368 ratings — published 2005
Hello Lighthouse (Caldecott Medal Winner)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,850 ratings — published 2018
The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.00 — 16 ratings — published 2008
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.81 — 222,622 ratings — published 1927
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,185 ratings — published 1846
The Confidence-Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,635 ratings — published 1857
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,724 ratings — published 2010
The Scorpio Races (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.09 — 114,649 ratings — published 2011
House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.89 — 116,963 ratings — published 2019
Compass and Blade (Compass and Blade, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.35 — 3,159 ratings — published 2024
The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.19 — 35,349 ratings — published 2002
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.69 — 110,071 ratings — published 2023
All the Murmuring Bones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.90 — 13,212 ratings — published 2021
The Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.02 — 12,659 ratings — published 2019
Sky in the Deep (Sky and Sea, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.93 — 72,716 ratings — published 2018
The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.77 — 64 ratings — published 2026
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,808 ratings — published 2021
“Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive
And that’s what makes the calm sea alive”
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And that’s what makes the calm sea alive”
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“In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter where the cabin boy Pip falls overboard and is driven mad by the empty immensity of what he finds himself floating in. And when I teach school now I always teach Crane's horrific "The Open Boat," and get all bent out of shape when the kids find the story dull or jaunty-adventurish: I want them to feel the same marrow-level dread of the oceanic I've always felt, the intuition of the sea as primordial nada, bottomless, depths inhabited by cackling tooth-studded things rising toward you at the rate a feather falls.”
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
― A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
