Discussion: What's your favorite book with a watery setting?

Believe it or not, Duluth has a beautiful, miles-long sandy beach — just minutes from our house, to boot. (Yes, the kids were in coats because it was 50 degrees, but they got their feet in the water!) Lake Superior offers a shoreline as beautiful and wild as any ocean.

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.