Nonfiction books exploring water and the life is sustains. Oceans, lakes, fish, and more.
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last updated June, 2026
Seaweed Collectors Handbook
Miek Zwamborn
Surfacing
Kathleen Jamie
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean
James Bradley
A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
Samantha Weinberg
Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
Caroline Tracey
Oceanic
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood
Joseph Osmundson
Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown
Roberta Kwok
How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication
Tom Mustill
Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
Neil Shea
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Margaret Renkl
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
Bren Smith
Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling
Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder
Sentient: What Animals Reveal About Our Senses
Jackie Higgins
Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Whale Snow: Iñupiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska
Chie Sakakibara
Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane
Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
Bethany Brookshire
Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher's Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything
Helen Scales
Secrets of the Octopus
Sy Montgomery
The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It
Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark
Leigh Ann Henion
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Pam Houston
Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice
Jeremy Williams
There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities
Ingrid R.G. Waldron
Nature Anatomy
Julia Rothman
Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the World under the Sea
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology
Michael Walsh
A Little Queer Natural History
Josh L. Davis
Even the River Starts Small: A Collection of Stories from the Movement to Stop Line 3
Line 3 Storytelling Anthology Team
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