411 books
—
207 voters
Oceanic Books
Showing 1-50 of 475
Whalefall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.68 — 29,765 ratings — published 2023
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,069 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 — 118,740 ratings — published 2000
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.57 — 615,386 ratings — published 1851
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 45,383 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 — 128,909 ratings — published 2022
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.25 — 78,855 ratings — published 2023
Sphere (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.84 — 197,984 ratings — published 1987
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,310,895 ratings — published 1952
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,752,596 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 — 118,984 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 — 14,988 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 — 1,226,497 ratings — published 2022
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.77 — 40,022 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 — 17,236 ratings — published 2022
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.01 — 68,480 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 — 76,300 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 — 1,191,077 ratings — published -800
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.00 — 115,663 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 — 34,548 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 — 214,485 ratings — published 1927
Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.57 — 6,034 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 — 11,539 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 — 80,988 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 — 10,448 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 — 107 ratings — published 2022
“He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenomena in the bosom of boundless simplicity, a propensity—proscribed and diametrically opposed to his mission in life and for that very reason seductive—a propensity for the unarticulated, the immoderate, the eternal, for nothingness. To repose in perfection is the desire of all those who strive for excellence, and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice











