Recs if you like The Swarm...

for people who are both terrified of and fascinated by the ocean (like me)

Translated german language literature that is considered by many to be "core" reading from the modern and contemporary eras - meaning 1880 onwards, making it very readable. 🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭 I usually kept it to one book per author to make this a starting off point (sometimes added additional faves). Suggestions welcome!

…are you certain whatever you’re doing is worth it?

or, books with similar vibes as the game subnautica

...or the shallow. But either way, don't go near the water.

Aquatic horror

This is a list of books representing every pokemon in HeartGold and SoulSilver (So Johto+Kanto regions). For my sanity, this is one book per evo line. The list with match-ups is in the comments✊🏻💚

We think of summer as the season of light, but shadows are longest when the sun is highest. It is the time of the year when the woods grow too thick to see through, the water grows too dark to see into, and the heat makes the mind play tricks. From the rotting porches of the South to the blood-stained cabins of the North... We call them the Summer Nightmares.

Are you scared of the ocean? You should be.

ocean planet colonisation and deep-sea extraction technologies

Whether by lake, sea, or ocean these books have a distinctive nautical feel about them.

Fiction that deals with climate change. Books may take place in the world as we know it, in the near future, or in fictional worlds experiencing climate change.

Don't mess with mama, she's pissed off!

Horror books swimming with thalassophobia

They do not want your songs; they want your wood and your iron. These are the krakens of the fog, the massive serpents of the tide, and the whales with enough spite to sink a fleet. They see our ships as intruders and our sailors as snacks. They are the reason we fear the horizon. We call them... the Ship-Breakers.