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Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as whales)
avg rating 3.58 — 638,939 ratings — published 1851
Timmy der Wal: Botschaften aus dem Meer (German Edition)
by (shelved 37 times as whales)
avg rating 4.98 — 41 ratings — published
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as whales)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,121 ratings — published 2018
Song for a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as whales)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,165 ratings — published 2019
Following Papa's Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as whales)
avg rating 3.78 — 705 ratings — published 2014
Breathe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as whales)
avg rating 3.89 — 932 ratings — published 2014
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as whales)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,479 ratings — published 2008
If You Want to See a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as whales)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,827 ratings — published 2013
Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as whales)
avg rating 3.77 — 42,473 ratings — published 2003
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as whales)
avg rating 4.17 — 124,192 ratings — published 2000
The Whale in My Swimming Pool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as whales)
avg rating 3.91 — 916 ratings — published 2015
Whalefall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as whales)
avg rating 3.68 — 44,585 ratings — published 2023
The Storm Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as whales)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,235 ratings — published 2013
Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as whales)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,313 ratings — published 2015
Fathoms: The World in the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as whales)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,152 ratings — published 2020
Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as whales)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,651 ratings — published 2015
The Heart of a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 3.71 — 521 ratings — published 2020
The Storm Whale in Winter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,361 ratings — published 2016
The Blue Whale (Volume 1) (Endangered Animals, 1)
by (shelved 12 times as whales)
avg rating 4.26 — 799 ratings — published 2015
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,729 ratings — published 2022
And the Ocean Was Our Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 3.62 — 9,019 ratings — published 2018
Whale in a Fishbowl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 3.82 — 653 ratings — published 2018
Whale Trails, Before and Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 3.44 — 126 ratings — published 2015
The Snail and the Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as whales)
avg rating 4.38 — 11,120 ratings — published 2003
Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.58 — 807 ratings — published 2024
To the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.14 — 902 ratings — published 2015
Trapped!: A Whale's Rescue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.10 — 417 ratings — published 2015
Amos & Boris (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,031 ratings — published 1971
War of the Whales: A True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as whales)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,713 ratings — published 2014
We Leap Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as whales)
avg rating 4.20 — 161 ratings — published
Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whales)
avg rating 4.37 — 398 ratings — published 1992
Death at SeaWorld: Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as whales)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,749 ratings — published
Baby Beluga (Raffi Songs to Read)
by (shelved 9 times as whales)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,134 ratings — published 1983
The Whale Rider (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as whales)
avg rating 3.85 — 13,300 ratings — published 1987
In the World of Whales (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 4.29 — 258 ratings — published 2025
The Boy and the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 3.89 — 483 ratings — published 2017
Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,098 ratings — published 2002
Emma and the Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 3.66 — 293 ratings — published
The Whales' Song (English and Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as whales)
avg rating 4.34 — 570 ratings — published 1990
The Breath of a Whale: The Science and Spirit of Pacific Ocean Giants (Audio CD)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 3.86 — 865 ratings — published 2019
Orca: The Whale Called Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.41 — 438 ratings — published 1981
Little Whale (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 3.91 — 397 ratings — published
A Big Guy Took My Ball! (Elephant & Piggie, #19)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,402 ratings — published 2013
Whales on Stilts (Pals in Peril, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as whales)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,104 ratings — published 2005
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 4.04 — 664,486 ratings — published 2025
Whale Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 3.79 — 20,090 ratings — published 2024
I Lived Inside a Whale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as whales)
avg rating 4.32 — 567 ratings — published 2024
“Nate had been born and raised in British Columbia, and Canadians hate, above all things, to offend. It was part of the national consciousness. "Be polite" was an unwritten, unspoken rule, but ingrained into the psyche of an entire country. (Of course, as with any rule, there were exceptions: parts of Quebec, where people maintained the "dismissive to the point of confrontation, with subsequent surrender" mind-set of the French; and hockey, in which any Canadian may, with impunity, slam, pummel, elbow, smack, punch, body-check, and beat the shit out of, with sticks, any other human being, punctuated by profanities, name-calling, questioning parentage, and accusations of bestiality, usually-coincidentally- in French.)”
― Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
― Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
“The greenhands, by necessity, were taught the ropes at sea. The captain distributed them among the boats, so as not to slow its progress when they inevitably caught a crab with their oars, breaking the rhythm of the boat. From the stern, the mate called out ‘Break your backs!’ as each took an oar. It was best to be quick, for the ‘iron-fisted and iron-hearted officers’ often ‘beat their information in with anything that came to hand’.”
― Whale
― Whale
