168 books
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274 voters
Marine Books
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The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as marine)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,358,309 ratings — published 1952
The Pacific (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as marine)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,516 ratings — published 2009
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as marine)
avg rating 3.94 — 62,826 ratings — published 2015
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as marine)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,219 ratings — published 1951
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as marine)
avg rating 4.17 — 122,138 ratings — published 2000
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as marine)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,267 ratings — published 2016
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as marine)
avg rating 4.06 — 159,867 ratings — published 1943
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as marine)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,598 ratings — published 1869
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as marine)
avg rating 3.57 — 630,362 ratings — published 1851
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as marine)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,274 ratings — published 1969
The Brilliant Abyss (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as marine)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,948 ratings — published 2021
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as marine)
avg rating 4.18 — 19,917 ratings — published 1950
How To Read Water (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as marine)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,333 ratings — published 2016
Falling for the Marine (McCade Brothers, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as marine)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,357 ratings — published 2013
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as marine)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,944 ratings — published 1997
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as marine)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,349 ratings — published 2009
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,424 ratings — published 2017
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,999 ratings — published 2016
Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells (Bloomsbury Sigma)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,129 ratings — published 2015
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 4.26 — 989 ratings — published 2012
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 3.85 — 551,756 ratings — published 1882
Moby Dick (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,880 ratings — published 2002
Starfish (Rifters, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,814 ratings — published 1999
Trojan Odyssey (Dirk Pitt, #17)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 3.98 — 20,124 ratings — published 2003
Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 4.31 — 954 ratings — published 1998
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 3.97 — 63,641 ratings — published 1798
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,068 ratings — published 2010
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 4.46 — 176,372 ratings — published 1959
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,722 ratings — published 2004
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as marine)
avg rating 3.84 — 6,838 ratings — published 1951
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,512,344 ratings — published 2022
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,970 ratings — published 2022
The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,416 ratings — published 2021
Marine Diesel Engines (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 4.34 — 101 ratings — published 2004
The Deep: The Secret Life of Our Oceans (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 4.01 — 424 ratings — published
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,043 ratings — published 2018
Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 4.35 — 330 ratings — published 2018
Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,639 ratings — published 2017
Temporarily Yours (Shillings Agency, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,204 ratings — published 2014
Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,952 ratings — published 2011
Deep Shadow (Doc Ford, #17)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,536 ratings — published 2010
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 4.12 — 120,334 ratings — published 1997
Ocean: The World's Last Wilderness Revealed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as marine)
avg rating 4.46 — 517 ratings — published 2006
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marine)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,363 ratings — published 2025
The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marine)
avg rating 4.03 — 205 ratings — published 2023
The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marine)
avg rating 4.40 — 182 ratings — published
Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marine)
avg rating 4.05 — 209 ratings — published
Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as marine)
avg rating 4.11 — 835 ratings — published 2023
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as marine)
avg rating 3.67 — 141,641 ratings — published 2022
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“Every war is different. Every war is the same.”
― Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
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