The Cat's Table

Michael Ondaatje

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan

The Whale Rider

Witi Ihimaera

Wild Light

Robyn Mundy

Into the Drowning Deep

Mira Grant

The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

Susan Casey

Master and Commander (Aubrey/Maturin, #1)

Patrick O'Brian

Ten Rogues: The Unlikely Story of Convict Schemers, a Stolen Brig and an Escape from Van Diemen's Land to Chile

Peter Grose

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

Sea Wife

Amity Gaige

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

Jeff Goodell

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Herman Melville

The Island of Sea Women

Lisa See

The Last Cruise

Kate Christensen

Seven Days in May

Kim Izzo

The Kingdoms

Natasha Pulley

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

Journey into Fear

Eric Ambler

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

C.S. Forester

Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival

Tristram Korten

The Sea Around Us

Rachel Carson

The Gracekeepers

Kirsty Logan

A Voyage for Madmen

Peter Nichols

Death by Water (Phryne Fisher, #15)

Kerry Greenwood

The Dragonfly Sea

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

Erik Larson

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

Dark Voyage (Night Soldiers, #8)

Alan Furst

Cinnamon and Gunpowder

Eli Brown

Castle of Water

Dane Huckelbridge