If you missed the announcement over at The Big Read, we’re about to dive into Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick for the summer. Additionally, our family just moved to Duluth, MN, just blocks away from one of the largest lakes in the world.
With that watery theme in mind, I want to hear the best books you’ve read set on, in, or around water. Fiction, non-fiction, old, or new.
Here are a few I’ve enjoyed (not including the white whale):
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
Sinkable by Daniel Stone
There are so many great ones.
Your turn! Let me know in the comments your favorite books that leave you feeling in awe of our world’s bodies of water.
Sea wolf, by Jack London. I read it in my late teens. I've been thinking of going back to it.
In The Heart of the Sea- the true story that inspired Moby Dick- Iis fantastic and gripping!
The Underwater Welder is a graphic novel by Jeff Lemire that is beautiful and moving.