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Oceanic Books
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Whalefall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.68 — 33,908 ratings — published 2023
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.93 — 47,851 ratings — published 2017
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.57 — 629,663 ratings — published 1851
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.67 — 141,002 ratings — published 2022
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,825 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 — 121,960 ratings — published 2000
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,799 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 — 1,355,671 ratings — published 1952
Fable (The World of the Narrows, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,568 ratings — published 2020
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,777,617 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 — 120,257 ratings — published 1997
Rolling in the Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 12,587 ratings — published 2015
Dark Water Daughter (The Winter Sea, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,137 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 — 82,581 ratings — published 2023
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.89 — 282,305 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 — 32,178 ratings — published 2023
Remarkably Bright Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,497,003 ratings — published 2022
The Deep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.77 — 41,829 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 — 63,599 ratings — published 1798
From Below (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.94 — 19,419 ratings — published 2022
Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 3.93 — 247,511 ratings — published 2017
Namesake (The World of the Narrows, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as oceanic)
avg rating 4.01 — 70,887 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 — 77,595 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 — 1,237,227 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 — 222,609 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 — 114,650 ratings — published 2011
House of Salt and Sorrows (Sisters of the Salt, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.89 — 116,959 ratings — published 2019
Compass and Blade (Compass and Blade, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.35 — 3,158 ratings — published 2024
The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 4.19 — 35,348 ratings — published 2002
A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as oceanic)
avg rating 3.69 — 110,060 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 — 12,658 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
“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
“...you are part of an infinite energy and by doing you are gaining, not losing. By giving you are attaining, not losing.
Live as the ocean. Be oceanic! Never think of losing, about anything. Nothing is lost, nothing can be lost. And you are not an individual; you only appear as an individual. The whole is joined to you; you are just a face of the whole, just a way the whole has happened.
Enjoy, celebrate, be active, and always be a giver. To be a giver so totally that you never think of retaining or holding anything is the only real prayer.
To give is to pray. To give is to love.
And those who can give, they are always given more.”
― My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
Live as the ocean. Be oceanic! Never think of losing, about anything. Nothing is lost, nothing can be lost. And you are not an individual; you only appear as an individual. The whole is joined to you; you are just a face of the whole, just a way the whole has happened.
Enjoy, celebrate, be active, and always be a giver. To be a giver so totally that you never think of retaining or holding anything is the only real prayer.
To give is to pray. To give is to love.
And those who can give, they are always given more.”
― My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
