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Oceanic Books
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Whalefall (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 29,769 ratings — published 2023
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,075 ratings — published 2022
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.17 — 118,744 ratings — published 2000
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.57 — 615,407 ratings — published 1851
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 45,387 ratings — published 2017
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,178 ratings — published 2022
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,391 ratings — published 2023
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.69 — 128,928 ratings — published 2022
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.25 — 78,859 ratings — published 2023
Sphere (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.84 — 197,989 ratings — published 1987
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,310,973 ratings — published 1952
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,752,637 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 — 118,985 ratings — published 1997
Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 12,124 ratings — published 2015
In Ascension (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,991 ratings — published 2024
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,238 ratings — published 2014
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.64 — 399 ratings — published 2023
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,226,724 ratings — published 2022
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.77 — 40,026 ratings — published 2019
Starfish (Rifters, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,389 ratings — published 1999
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.97 — 62,689 ratings — published 1798
From Below (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.96 — 17,237 ratings — published 2022
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.01 — 68,483 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 — 76,303 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 — 3,357 ratings — published 2015
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,191,144 ratings — published -800
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.00 — 115,667 ratings — published 2020
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 4.43 — 3,375 ratings — published 2017
The North Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.98 — 34,549 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 — 7,185 ratings — published 2005
Hello Lighthouse (Caldecott Medal Winner)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,620 ratings — published 2018
The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 2008
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.81 — 214,500 ratings — published 1927
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.57 — 6,035 ratings — published 1846
The Confidence-Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,553 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 — 11,540 ratings — published 2010
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.45 — 100,027 ratings — published 2019
Lei and the Fire Goddess (Lei and the Legends #1)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.09 — 787 ratings — published 2023
The Last Word (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.68 — 80,994 ratings — published 2023
Tide of Terror (Vampirates, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,387 ratings — published 2006
Demons of the Ocean (Vampirates, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,449 ratings — published 2005
Hell's Aquarium (MEG, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,313 ratings — published 2009
Blood Captain (Vampirates, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,880 ratings — published 2006
Weird Tales from Northern Seas: Norwegian Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.45 — 127 ratings — published 1893
The Bone People (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,998 ratings — published 1984
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.98 — 49,542 ratings — published 1957
The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths – A Gripping True Account of High-Risk Ambition, a Mysterious German U-boat, and Tragic Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,083 ratings — published 2000
The Human, the Orchid and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World (hardback)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.01 — 473 ratings — published 1998
The Complete Diver: The History, Science and Practice of Scuba Diving (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.32 — 73 ratings — published 2012
Working Boats: An Inside Look at Ten Amazing Watercraft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.53 — 108 ratings — published 2022
“Every aspect of the sea holds profound metaphorical
power. The outer seascape provides so many corollaries for human
psychology in general, and women’s psychology in particular. This
is the reason it has haunted the myths and legends – the psychology
before psychology – of so many cultures. And it is why water is present in most spiritual rituals. The sea speaks to the soul. Our ancestors
knew that beneath the depths lay much wisdom. They knew that the
way to our own depths was through the depths of the ocean.”
― She of the Sea
power. The outer seascape provides so many corollaries for human
psychology in general, and women’s psychology in particular. This
is the reason it has haunted the myths and legends – the psychology
before psychology – of so many cultures. And it is why water is present in most spiritual rituals. The sea speaks to the soul. Our ancestors
knew that beneath the depths lay much wisdom. They knew that the
way to our own depths was through the depths of the ocean.”
― She of the Sea
“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
