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Whalefall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.67 — 40,905 ratings — published 2023
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.93 — 49,595 ratings — published 2017
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.17 — 123,743 ratings — published 2000
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.58 — 637,103 ratings — published 1851
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.66 — 146,968 ratings — published 2022
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.86 — 41,826 ratings — published 2022
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,984 ratings — published 2023
Sphere (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.84 — 203,277 ratings — published 1987
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,381,857 ratings — published 1952
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,203 ratings — published 2020
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,790,784 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 — 120,909 ratings — published 1997
Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,878 ratings — published 2015
In Ascension (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.72 — 17,139 ratings — published 2024
Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,297 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 — 15,280 ratings — published 2022
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,286 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 — 8,674 ratings — published 2014
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.24 — 92,345 ratings — published 2023
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.88 — 285,555 ratings — published 1869
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.65 — 441 ratings — published 2023
The Salt Grows Heavy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.52 — 33,927 ratings — published 2023
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,601,973 ratings — published 2022
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.76 — 42,608 ratings — published 2019
Starfish (Rifters, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,995 ratings — published 1999
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.97 — 64,068 ratings — published 1798
From Below (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.93 — 20,654 ratings — published 2022
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.92 — 251,164 ratings — published 2017
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.01 — 71,947 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 — 78,288 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 — 3,480 ratings — published 2015
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,293,459 ratings — published -800
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 — 3,588 ratings — published 2017
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.98 — 36,265 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 — 7,471 ratings — published 2005
Hello Lighthouse (Caldecott Medal Winner)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,944 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 — 227,325 ratings — published 1927
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.56 — 6,263 ratings — published 1846
The Confidence-Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,683 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 4.05 — 11,834 ratings — published 2010
The Scorpio Races (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.10 — 115,049 ratings — published 2011
Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.24 — 41 ratings — published
Alias Grace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.04 — 162,394 ratings — published 1996
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.27 — 20,332 ratings — published 2021
The Pirate Queen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,216 ratings — published 2026
Dead in the Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.41 — 299 ratings — published 1994
The Palace Beneath the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.39 — 252 ratings — published
Scorpion Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.58 — 827 ratings — published 2026
Reliquary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,538 ratings — published 2026
“There's a self-portrait, her sister's face rendered in aqueous greens and blues. The shimmering surface of a pool, bright turrets of coral visible beneath. So she's familiar with the lush application of paint, the galaxies of color.
But this? This is different.
The painting is enormous, almost as big as the wall behind it. Her sister has painted two female figures, their backs turned on the viewer as they wade into a raging sea. The brushstrokes are frenzied, lavish, and Jess has done something to make their skin gleam, as if it's lifting from the canvas. Lucy feels sure that if she were to reach out and touch the girls' hair--- pale, like her own--- she would feel each whorl, each strand under her fingertips.
Both girls are nude, their legs swallowed by furious splatters of paint. Blue green, purple, black, foamy white.”
― The Sirens
But this? This is different.
The painting is enormous, almost as big as the wall behind it. Her sister has painted two female figures, their backs turned on the viewer as they wade into a raging sea. The brushstrokes are frenzied, lavish, and Jess has done something to make their skin gleam, as if it's lifting from the canvas. Lucy feels sure that if she were to reach out and touch the girls' hair--- pale, like her own--- she would feel each whorl, each strand under her fingertips.
Both girls are nude, their legs swallowed by furious splatters of paint. Blue green, purple, black, foamy white.”
― The Sirens
“A crown of seashells and coral graced her head, a reminder of her SeaForest family line, and pearls peeped from her dark hair. His mother was every inch the High Queen. And he was tasked with finding a human maiden to step into her shoes.
Her gown was blue, embroidered in green thread with starfish, shellfish, creatures of the shallows. On her sleeves, needlework otters peeped between kelp fronds. Selkies swam along the gown’s helm in their seal forms and climbed from the foam as long-legged women at her bodice, where white waves of sea silk bloomed.
One could all but hear the hoarse call of gulls.”
― Queenswood
Her gown was blue, embroidered in green thread with starfish, shellfish, creatures of the shallows. On her sleeves, needlework otters peeped between kelp fronds. Selkies swam along the gown’s helm in their seal forms and climbed from the foam as long-legged women at her bodice, where white waves of sea silk bloomed.
One could all but hear the hoarse call of gulls.”
― Queenswood
