Transformation. Destruction. Renewal. Water holds significance symbolism throughout literature. Take a DIVE into books where water elements play a DEEP role.
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From the Sea (Picador Shorts)
Dan Saladino
No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
Sarah Kay
The Mermaid of Black Conch
Monique Roffey
Lucy by the Sea (Amgash, #4)
Elizabeth Strout
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Yukio Mishima
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
Once Upon a River
Diane Setterfield
The Waves
Virginia Woolf
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The Sea Is Salt and So Am I
Cassandra Hartt
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
W. Jeffrey Bolster
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
T.J. Klune
The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea: Winner of the Prix Odysée
Denis Thériault
Wild Dark Shore
Charlotte McConaghy
Sharks in the Rivers
Ada Limon
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Hampton Sides
Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield
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