BookLists
Northeast Regional Library Booklists
Ocean of Possibilities 2022 Booklists
Easy and Junior Titles
Easy – Ocean theme and beaches
Beach – Elisha Cooper
Beach Day – Karen Roosa
The Berenstain Bears by the Sea – Stan Berenstain
Billy Lazroe and the King of the Sea – Eric A Kimmel
Chu’s Day at the Beach – Neil Gaiman
Clark in the Deep Sea – R. W. Alley
Cry of the Benu Bird – C. Shana Greger
Corduroy Goes to the Beach – B. G. Hennessy
Duck & Goose Go to the Beach – Tad Hills
Eve at the Beach – Rebecca Elliott
Find Me!: Adventures in the Ocean – Agnese Baruzzi
The Friend – Sarah Stewart
Grayboy – Kay Chorao
Gretchen Over the Beach – R. W. Alley
Hello Lighthouse – Sophie Blackall
Hello, Ocean! – Pam Mu ̴noz Ryan
I’m the Best Artist in the Ocean – Kevin Sherry
The Island-Below-the-Star – James Rumford
Jennifer’s Rabbit – Tom Paxton
Ladybug Girl at the Beach – David Soman
Little Boy with a Big Horn – Jack Bechdolt
Little Toot – Hardie Gramatky
The Lost Sailor – Pam Conrad
The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor – Joanna Cole
Me Too! – Mercer Mayer
Ocean Meets Sky – Terry Fan
Out of the Ocean – Debra Frasier
Paddle-to-the-Sea – Holling Clancy Holling
Pete at the Beach – James Dean
Pigs Ahoy! – David M. McPhail
Planet Earth – Mike Goldsmith
The Race to the Beach – Anna Suttlewood
Raindrops – Larry Dane Brimmer
Robot Kittens – Jim Benton
Sailor Boy Jig – Jonathan London
Sand Castle – Brenda Shannon Yee
Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach – Melanie Watt
Sea Monster Scare – Gail Herman
Sea, Sand, Me! – Patricia Hubbell
Seashells by the Seashore – Marianne Collins Berkes
The Seashore Book – Charlotte Zolotow
A Single Pearl – Donna Jo Napoli
Sneakers, the Seaside Cat – Margaret Wise Brown
The Southernmost Cat – John Cech
Summer Sands – Sherry Garland
Surf’s Up – Kwame Alexander
Three Bears in a Boat – David Soman
Tiger’s Ocean Adventure – Megan Roth
Totally Tardy Marty – Erica S. Perl
Wave – Suzy Lee
Easy – Exploring
Bitty Bot’s Big Beach Getaway – Tim McCanna
By the Seashore – A. J. Wood
Fish is Fish – Leo Lionni
Glow in the Dark Under the Sea – Jean Lewis
In the Deep Dark Deep – Ben Joel Price
Sally’s Submarine – Joan Anderson
Submarines and Submersibles – Deborah Lock
Easy – Mythology and Folklore
Aqualicious – Victoria Kann
The Dreamtime Fairies – Jane Simmons
Do Mermaids Wet Their Beds? – Jeanne Willis
Fancy Nancy and the Mermaid Ballet – Jane O’Connor
The Floating Palace – Cathy Hapka
How to Catch a Mermaid – Adam Wallace
In the Palace of the Ocean King – Marilyn Singer
Julian Is a Mermaid – Jessica Love
The Mermaid – Jan Brett
Mermaids on Parade – Melanie Hope Greenberg
Not Quite Narwhal – Jessie Sima
Rosa and the Water Pony – Katy Kit
Easy: Pirates
Are Pirates Polite? – Corinne Demas
Bubble Bath Pirates – Jarrett Krosoczka
Bubby and Earl – Maureen Fergus
Captain Abdul’s Pirate School – Colin McNaughton
Captain Beastlie’s Pirate Party – Lucy Coates
Captain Jack and the Pirates – Peter Bently
Eat Pete! – Michael Rex
Edward and the Pirates – David McPhail
Henry & the Buccaneer Bunnies – Carolyn Crimi
Henry & the Crazed Chicken Pirates – Carolyn Crimi
How I Became a Pirate – Melinda Long
Imagine you’re a Pirate! – Meg Clibbon
Matilda’s Humdinger – Lynn Downey
My Stinky New School – Rebecca Elliott
The Night Pirates – Peter Harris
No Bath, No Cake!: Polly’s Pirate Party – Matthias Weinert
Pajama Pirates – Andrew Kramer
Pinkalicious and the Pirates – Victoria Kann
Pirate Boy – Eve Bunting
Pirates Loves Underpants – Claire Freedman
Pirate Pete – Kim Kennedy
Pirate Pete’s Talk Like a Pirate – Kim Kennedy
Pirate Princess – Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Pirate Stew – Neil Gaiman
Pirate, Viking, & Scientist – Jared Chapman
Pirates Don’t Change Diapers – Melinda Long
Pirates Don’t Take Baths – John Segal
Pirates Go To School – Corinne Demas
Pirates Love Underpants – Claire Freedman
The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything and Me! – Michael Nawrocki
Poppy the Pirate’s Dog’s New Shipmate – Liz Kessler
Robinson – Peter Sis
Roger, the Jolly Pirate – Brett Helquist
The Scrimshaw Ring – William Jaspersohn
Shiver Me Letters: A Pirate ABC – June Sobel
Unexpected Treasures – Victoria Osteen
Easy – Sharks and other sea creatures
Amos & Boris – William Steig
Baby Beluga – Raffi
Ballyboo Bay – Judy Sierra
Beachy and Me – Bob Staake
A Big Guy Took My Ball! – Mo Willems
Big New Friend – Meredith Rusu
Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem – Mac Barnett
Bitty Fish – Barbara DeRubertis
Crabby Crab – Christopher Raschka
Do Fish Drink? – Time Life for Children
Don’t Eat the Babysitter! – Nick Ward
Fish – Claude Delafosse
The Fish That Cried Wolf – Julia Donaldson
The Fish With the Deep Sea Smile – Margaret Wise Brown
The Fisherman and His Wife – Rachel Isadora
Fishy Tales – DK Readers
Food Fish – Robyn Harbert Eversole
Hooray for Fish! – Lucy Cousins
A House for Hermit Crab – Eric Carle
How Many Fish? – Caron Lee Cohen
I’m the Best Artist in the Ocean – Kevin Sherry
If You Want to See a Whale – Julie Fogliano
Is This a House for Hermit Crab? – Megan McDonald
The Little Butterfly That Could – Ross Burach
Mister Seahorse – Eric Carle
Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (and other things not to do) – Judi Barrett
Nugget and Fang – Tammi Sauer
Otter and Odder – James Howe
Peanut and Jellyfish – Jarett Krosoczka
Platypus – Chris Riddell
Poor Little Guy – Elanna Allen
The Pout-pout Fish – Deborah Diesen
The Pout-pout Fish Far, Far From Home – Deborah Diesen
The Pout-pout Fish Goes to School – Deborah Diesen
The Pout-pout Fish in the Big-big Dark – Deborah Diesen
The Rainbow Fish – Marcus Pfister
The Rainbow Fish ABC – Marcus Pfister
Rainbow Fish and the Big Blue Whale – Marcus Pfister
Rainbow Fish Discovers the Deep Sea – Marcus Pfister
Rainbow Fish to the Rescue! – Marcus Pfister
Scholastic’s The Magic School Bus Takes a Dive: A Book About Coral Reefs – Scholastic
Secret Seahorse – Stella Blackstone
Shark Dog and the School Trip Rescue! – Ged Adamson
Shark Dog – Ged Adamson
The Shark God – Rafe Martin
Shark vs. Train – Christ Barton
Shawn Loves Sharks – Curtis Manley
Sherman Swaps Shells – Jane Clarke
Spencer and Vincent, the Jellyfish Brothers – Tony Johnston
Splat the Cat: A Whale of a Tale – Amy Hsu Lin
Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables – Jon Scieszka
Swim Like a Fish – Ellen Schecter
Swim, Swim! – James Proimos
There Was an Old Mermaid Who Swallowed a Shark! – Lucille Colandro
Turtle in the Sea – Jim Arnosky
Turtle, Turtle, Watch Out! – April Pulley Sayre
The Voyage of Turtle Rex – Kurt Cyrus
The Whale in My Swimming Pool – Joyce Wan
Wake Up, Crabby! – Jonathan Fenske
We’re Sailing to Galapagos – Laurie Krebs
Whale Trails, Before and Now – Cynthia Rylant
What’s it Like to Be a Fish? – Wendy Pfeffer
Wiggle and the Whale – Roger Priddy
You’re a Crab! – Jenny Whitehead
Zigby Dives In – Brian Paterson
Junior Fiction: Adventure, Exploration, Mysteries, Shipwrecked, Survival
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore – Laura Lee Hope
The Castaways – Iain Lawrence
Dark Day in the Deep Sea – Mary Pope Osborne
Deep Water – Watt Key
Disaster on the Titanic – Kate Messner
The Ghost Ship Mystery – Gertrude Chandler Warner
Escaping the Giant Wave – Peg Kehret
I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 – Lauren Tarshis
In Too Deep – Jude Watson
Lifeboat 12: Based on a True Story – Susan Hood
The Marvels – Brian Selznick
The Mystery of the Hidden Beach – Gertrude Chandler Warner
Ocean Renegades! (Graphic Novel) – Abby Howard
Scar Island – Dan Gemeinhart
The Secret at the Seashore – Laura lee Hope
Secrets at Sea – Richard Peck
SOS Titanic – Eve Bunting
The Stolen Sapphire – Sarah MastersBuckey
Wave Traveller – P. R. Morrison
Junior Fiction: Monsters, Mythology, Folklore, Underwater Cities
The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story – Sid Fleischman
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex – Eoin Colfer
Aquamarine – Alice Hoffman
The Colossus Rises – Peter Lerangis
Danger in the Deep Blue Sea – Debbie Dadey
Dark Day in the Deep Sea – Mary Pope Osborne
Dark Tide – Jennifer Donnelly
The Deep – Helen Dunmore
Deep Blue – Jennifer Donnelly
Deep Trouble – R. l. Stein
Deep Wizardry – Diane Duane
Drift House – Dale Peck
Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist – Liz Kessler
Emily Windsnap and the Monster From the Deep – Liz Kessler
Emily Windsnap and the Siren’s Secret – Liz Kessler
Fish Girl – Donna Jo Napoli
In a Blink – Kiki Thorpe
The Legend of the Rift – Peter Lerangis
The Lost Continent – Tui Sutherland
The Lost Heir – Tui Sutherland
The Lost Princess – Debbie Dadey
Maybe a Mermaid – Josephine Cameron
The Mermaid Summer – Mollie Hunter
Monsters Don’t Scuba Drive – Debbie Dabey
My Diary From the Edge of the World – Jodi Lynn Anderson
Race to the End of the World – A. L. Tait
Rogue Wave – Jennifer Donnelly
Sea Monsters and Other Delicacies – David Sinden
The Sea of Monsters – Rick Riordan
The Tail of Emily Windsnap – Liz Kessler
The Third Wish – Emily Rodda
Time Warp – Geronimo Stilton
Undertow – Steve Behling
The Water Horse – Dick King-Smith
The World Between Blinks – Amie Kaufman
Junior Fiction: Pirates
20,000 Nerds Under the Sea – Jeff Miller
The Angel’s Command: A Tale From the Castaways of the Flying Dutchman – Brian Jacques
Big City Blues: Back to Wonderland – Jan Fields
Blackbeard and the Gift of Silence – Audrey Penn
Bloody Jack – L. A. Meyer
Drowned Wednesday – Garth Nix
Fish – Gregory Mone
The Floating Island: The Lost Journals of Ven Polypheme – Elizabeth Haydon
How to Be a Pirate – Cressida Cowell
The Hurricane Mystery – Gertrude Chandler Warner
Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves – Carol Hughes
Knife’s Edge (Graphic Novel) – Hope Larson
Lily and the Pirates – Phyllis Root
Magic Marks the Spot – Caroline Carlson
The Map to Everywhere – Carrie Ryan
Mariel of Redwall – Brian Jacques
Peter and the Starcatchers – Dave Barry
Peter Pan – M. J. Barrie
Pirate: The Story of a Buccaneer – Dee Phillips
The Pirate Pig – Cornelia Funke
Pirates Don’t Wear Pink Sunglasses – Debbie Dadey
Pirates of the Caribbean, At World’s End: The Movie Storybook – T. T. Sutherland
Pirates Past Noon – Mary Pope Osborne
The Plunder Down Under – James Patterson
Scurvy Goonda – Chris McCoy
The Secret of Pirate’s Hill – Franklin W. Dixon
Shipwrecked on Pirate Islands – Geronimo Stilton
Junior Fiction: Self-perception – Family – Friendships
Gifts From the Sea – Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Indigo – Alice Hoffman
The Ocean Within – V. M. Caldwell
Olive’s Ocean – Kevin Henkes
The Pull of the Ocean – Jean-Claude Mourlevat
The Wanderer – Sharon Creech
The Young Man and the Sea – W. R. (W. Rodman) Philbrick
Junior Fiction: Sharks and other sea creatures
Baby Mouse: Beach Babe – Jennifer L. Holm
Fins – Randy Wayne White
The Great Shark Escape – Jennifer Johnston
The Great Shark Mystery – Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Islanders – Mary Alice Monroe
Mississippi Megalodon – Johnathan Rand
Moby Dick – Shirley Bogart
Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea – Ben Clanton
Narwhal’s Otter Friend – Ben Clanton
Narwhal’s School of Awesomeness – Ben Clanton
Sassy: The Birthday Storm – Sharon M. Draper
Shadow of the Shark – Mary Pope Osborne
Shark Bait – Justin D’Ath
Shark and Bot (Graphic Novel) – Brian Yanish
The Sign of the Seahorse – Graeme Base
I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 – Lauren Tarshis
The Sea Turtle Mystery – Gertrude Chandler Warner
Junior Nonfiction – Marine Biology and Oceanography
About Habitats: Rivers and Streams – Cathryn P. Sill
Alien Deep: Revealing the Mysterious Living World at the Bottom of the Ocean – Bradley Hague
All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World – Lori Alexander (Also available on CD)
The Atlantic Ocean – L. R. Taylor
Awesome is Everywhere – Neil Pasricha
Come to the Ocean’s Edge: A Nature Cycle Book – Laurence P. Pringle
Creeps From the Deep: Life in the Deep Sea – L. R. Taylor
Diving to a Deep-sea Volcano – Kenneth Mallory
Down in the Marvelous Deep: A Book of Sea Poems – Sophie Windham
A First Look at Seashells – Millicent Ellis Selsam
From Sand to Glass – Shannon Zemlicka
The Indian Ocean – L. R. Taylor
Janice VanCleave’s Oceans for Every Kid: Easy Activities that Make Learning Science Fun – Janice Pratt VanCleave
Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle – Claire A. Nivola
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor – Robert Burleigh
Ocean – Samantha Gray
Ocean – Miranda MacQuitty
Oceans and Seas – Nicola Davies
The Pacific Ocean – L. R. Taylor
Plastic Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – Patricia Newman
Sand to Sea: Marine Life in Hawaii – Stephanie Feeney
Under the Sea – Linsay Knight
Junior Nonfiction: Exploration and Deep-sea Divers
Bermuda Triangle – Andrew Donkin
Deep-sea Exploration: Science, Technology, and Engineering – Will Mara
Dive!: My Adventures Undersea – Sylvia A. Earle
Diving to a Deep Sea Volcano – Kenneth Mallory
Dolphins and Sharks: A Nonfiction Companion to Dolphins at Daybreak – Mary Pope Osborne
Exploring the Deep, Dark Sea – Gail Gibbons
Ferdinand Magellan and the Discovery of the World Ocean – Rebecca Stefoff
Flying Deep: Climb Inside Deep-sea Submersible ALVIN – Michelle Cusolito
I am Amelia Earhart – Brad Meltzer
The Impossible Voyage of Kon-Tiki – Deborah Kogan Ray
The Incredible Record-setting Deep-sea Dive of the Bathysphere – Bradford Matsen
Into the Deep: The Life of Naturalist and Explorer William Beebe – David Sheldon
Jacques Cousteau, Free Flight Undersea – Paul Westman
Lewis and Clark – R. Conrad Stein
Underworld: Exploring the Secret World Beneath Your Feet – Jane Price
Junior Nonfiction: Monsters, Mythology, Folklore
The Loch Ness Monster – Elaine Landau
Mermaids and Mermen – Shannon Knudsen
True-life Monsters of the Prehistoric Seas – Enid Fisher
The Truth About Magical Beasts and Unbelievable Monsters – Geraldine Woods
Junior Nonfiction: Natural Disasters
All About Hurricanes: Discovering Earth’s Wildest Storms – Cody Crane
Disasters on the Map – Alix Wood
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans – Don Brown
Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and Other Natural Disasters – Andrew Langley
Hurricanes – Arlene Erlbach
Hurricanes: Earth’s Mightiest Storms – Patricia Lauber
Tsunamis – Kimiko Kajikawa
When the Sky Breaks: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, and the Worst Weather in the World – Simon Windchester
Junior Nonfiction: Pirates
Anne Bonny: Pirate Queen of the Caribbean – Christina Leaf
Blackbeard: A Notorious Pirate in the Caribbean – Tim Cooke
Jack Plank Tells Tales – Natalie Babbitt
Lives of Pirates: Swashbucklers, scoundrels (Neighbors Beware!) – Kathleen Krull
Modern Pirates – Nelson Yomtov
Pirate – Richard Platt
Pirateology: The Sea Journal of Captain William Lubber, Pirate Hunter General, Boston, Massachusetts – Dugald Steer
Pirates – Phillip Steele
Pirates – Will Osborne
Pirates and Smugglers – Moira Butterfield
Real Pirates: Over 20 True Stories of Seafaring Sculduggery – Clare Hibbert
Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah From Slave Ship to Pirate Ship – Barry Clifford
Shivers Me Timbers!: Pirate Poems and Paintings – Douglas Florian
Who Was Blackbeard? – James Buckley
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found – Martin W. Sandler
Junior Nonfiction: Sharks and other sea creatures
Alien Worlds: Your Guide to Extraterrestrial Life – David A. Aguilar
Amazing Sharks! – Sarah L. Tompson
Ask a Shark and Other Sea Creatures – Olivia Brookes
Birds Vs. Blades?: Offshore Wind Power and the Race to Protect Seabirds – Rebeeca E. Hirsch
Blue Whales – Grace Hansen
A City Under the Sea: Life in a Coral Reef – Norbert Wu
Coral Reef: A City That Never Sleeps – Mary M. Cerullo
Coral Reef Feeders – Eric Ethan
Coral Reefs – Gail Gibbons
Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean – Maris Wicks
The Crab Alphabet Book – Jerry Pallotta
Do Whales Have Belly Buttons? – Melvin Berger
Dolphins and Sharks: A Nonfiction Companion Guide to Dolphins at Daybreak – Mary Pope Osborne
Draw 50 Sharks, Whales, and Other Sea Creatures – Lee J. Ames
Drawing Sharks, Whales, Dolphins, and Seals – Paul Frame
Endangered Animals – Ben Hoare
Far From Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage – Sophie Webb
Get the Scoop of Animal Blood!: From Great White Sharks to Blood-squiting Lizards, 251 Cool Facts – Dawn Cusick
The Great White Shark Scientist – Sy Montgomery
Hark, a Shark!: All About Sharks – Bonnie Worth
Hello, Fish – Sylvia A. Earle
Humpback Whales – Victor Gentle
I Love Whales & Dolphins – Kathryn Allen Goldner
Jellyfish – Jody Sullivan Rake
Keiko’s Story: A Killer Whale Goes Home – Linda Moore Kurth
Killer Whales – mark Carwardine
Life in a Coral Reef – Wendy Pfeffer
Living in a World of Blue: Where Survival Means Blending In – Tanya Lee Stone
Narwhals and Other Whales – Mary Pope Osborne
The Ocean – Alan Baker
Ocean Counting – Time-Life Student Library
Ocean Mammals – Sue Beauregard
The Octopus Scientists: Exploring the Minds of a Mollusk- Sy Montgomery
Play Like an Animal!: Why Critters Splash, Race, Twirl, and Chase – Maria Gianferrari
Salmon: A Journey Home – M. J. Cosson
Sea Turtle – Louise Spilbury
Sea Turtles – Emilie U. Lepthien
Secrets of the Sea – Kate Baker
Sharks – Lynn Gibbons
Sharks – Fleur Star
Tylosaurus – Gerry Bailey
Wandering Whale Sharks – Susumu Shinu
Junior Nonfiction: Rescues
The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue – Mike Tougias
Into the Blizzard: Heroism at Sea During the Great Blizzard of 0978 – Mike Tougias
A Storm Too Soon: A Remarkable True Survival Story in 80- Foot Seas – Mike Tougias
Junior Nonfiction: Shipwrecked
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Perilous Expedition in Antarctica – Meredith Hooper
Exploring the Titanic – Robert D. Ballard
Finding the Titanic – Robert D. Ballard
On board the Titanic: What It Was Like When the Great Liner Sank – Shelley Tanaka
Shackles From the Deep – Michael H. Cottman
Shipwrecks: Exploring Sunken Cities Beneath the Sea – Mary M. Cerullo
Junior Nonfiction: Other (Lighthouses)
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie – Peter Roop
Safety to Shore: America’s Lighthouses – Iris Van Rynback
Adult Titles
Beach theme:
After Midnight – A. J. Banner
The Alibi Man – Tami Hoag
All Dressed in White – Mary Higgins Clark
Almost Missed You – Jessica Strawser
Arsenic with Austen – Katherine Bolger Hyde
Beach Bags and Burglaries – Dorothy Howell
The Beach Club – Elin Hilderbrand
Beach Haven – T. I. Lowe
Beach House for Rent – Mary Alice Monroe
Beach Town – Mary Kay Andrews
Beachside Beginnings – Sheila Roberts
The Better Sister – Alafair Burke
Big Summer – Jennifer Weiner
Bookshop by the Sea – Denise Hunter
The Bookstore on the Beach – Brenda Novak
Booty Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery – Carolyn Haines
The Boy Who Drew Monsters – Keith Donohue
The Bungalow – Sarah Jio
Caleb’s Crossing – Geraldine Brooks
Canary Island Song – Robin Jones Gunn
Cape May – Chip Cheek
Cari Mora – Thomas Harris
Clam Wake – Mary Daheim
Collateral Damage – H. Terrell Griffin
The Cottage at Beach – Lee Tobin McCain
Crisis Shot – Janice Cantore
Crooked River – Douglas J. Preston
Cutting Teeth – Julia Fierro
Deadly Ever After – Eva Gates
The Endless Beach – Jenny Colgan
Every Breath – Nicholas Sparks
Every Time You Go Away – Elizabeth M. Harbison
The Ex-husband – Karen Hamilton
The Facts of Life and Death – Belinda Bauer
Falling – Jane Green
Family Reunion – Nancy Thayer
Fear Thy Neighbor – Fern Michaels
Feels Like Falling – Kristy Woodson Harvey
Folly Beach – Dorothea Benton Frank
The Girl Who Was Taken – Charlie Donlea
The Girls of August – Anne Rivers Siddons
Golden Girls – Elin Hilderbrand
Grief Cottage – Gail Godwin
Grounds for Murder – Tara Lush
The Guilt Trip – Sandie Jones
Happiness Key – Katherine Spencer
Haunted – Randy Wayne White
The Husband Hour – Jamie Brenner
The Inn at Ocean’s Edge – Colleen Coble
The Island – Heather Graham
The Islanders – Meg Mitchell Moore
Killer Honeymoon – G. A. McKevett
The Last Victim – Karen Robards
The Long Call – Ann Cleeves
The Lying Game – Ruth Ware
Miss Julia Weathers the Storm – Ann E. Ross
Mr. Nobody – Catherine Steadman
Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop – Darci Hannah
Murder in Paradise – James Patterson
Murder, She Wrote: Trouble at High Tide – Jessica Fletcher
Naked Came the Florida Man – Tim Dorsey
The Newcomer – Mary Kay Andrews
Nine Lives – Peter Swanson
No One to Trust – Melody Carlson
On Folly Beach – Karen White
On Ocean Boulevard – Mary Alice Monroe
The Palm Beach Murders – James Patterson
The Paper Palace – Miranda Cowley Heller
The Pearl Sister – Lucinda Riley
Piece of My Heart – Mary Higgins Clark
Queen Bee – Dorothea Benton Frank
Reckless Girls – Rachel Hawkins
Rooms – James L. Rubart
A Safe House – Stuart Woods
The Scam – Janet Evanovich
The Sea of Lost Girls – Carol Goodman
Secrets in Summer – Nancy Thayer
Shockwave – Andrew H. Vachss
The Speed of Darkness – Catherine Fisher
A Sudden Death in Cyprus – Michael Grant
The Suite Spot – Trish Doller
Summer at Seaside Cove – Jacquie D’Alessandro
Summer by the Tides – Denise Hunter
The Summer House – Jenny Hale
The Summer of Lost and Found – Mary Alice Monroe
The Summer Retreat – Sheila Roberts
Sunrise by the Sea – Jenny Colgan
Sunset Beach – Mary Kay Andrews
The Survivors – Jane Harper
The Throwback List – Lily Anderson
Under a Maui Moon – Robin Jones Gunn
Verses for the Dead – Douglas J. Preston
A Walk Along the Beach – Debbie Macomber
A Wedding on the Beach – Holly Chamberlin
Welcome to the Moonlight Harbor – Sheila Roberts
The Wish – Nicholas Sparks
The Woman at the Light – Joanna Brady
You and Me and Us – Alison Hammer
Ocean Theme:
Anna’s Crossing – Suzanne Woods Fisher
As Bright as Heaven – Susan Meissner
The Bell at Sealey Head – Patricia A. McKilip
Beyond the Ice Limit – Douglas J. Preston
Black Horizon – James Grippando
Blood-drenched Bread – Daniel Galera
Colors of Truth – -Tamara Alexander
The Deep – Nick Cutter
The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners – Luanne Rice
Deep Fathom – James Rollins
Depth – Lev AC. Rosen
The Devil and the Dark Water – Stuart Turton
The Devil’s Sea – Dirk Cussler
Dreamboat – Judith Gould
Forever My Own – Tracie Peterson
The Glass Ocean – Beatriz Williams
Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead
A Heart Adrift – Laura Frantz
Invasive – Chuck Wendig
The Light Between Oceans – M. L. Stedman
Night Diver – Elizabeth Lowell
The Night Ocean – Paul LaFarge
The Obsidian Chamber – Douglas J. Preston
Ocean Prey – John Sandford
Pressure – Brian Keene
Reckless Girls – Rachal Hawkins
The Storm – Clive Cussler
The Summer Guests – Mary Alice Monroe
Tom Clancy: Shadow of the Dragon
The Transatlantic Book Club – Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Uncharted: Lewis and Clark In Arcane America – Kevin J. Anderson
Undetected – Dee Henderson
Waves of Mercy – Lynn N. Austin
White Plague – James Abel
Shipwrecked theme:
Amazing Grace – Danielle Steel
Black Ice – Brad Thor
Caribbean Rim – Randy Wayne White
A Castaway in Cornwall – Julie Klassen
Cold Earth – Sarah Moss
Comfort & Joy – Kristin Hannah
The Deep – Alma Katsu
The Disastrous Voyage of the Santa Margarita – Richard Woodman
The Dressmaker – Kate Alcott
Exiles – Ron Hansen
Freedom’s Light – Colleen Coble
I Know My Name – Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Irish Eyes – Andrew M. Greeley
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H. G. Wells
The Language of the Sea – James MacManus
The Last Druid – Terry Brooks
The Last Odyssey – James Rollins
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Love Unexpected – Jody Hedlund
Orphans of the Storm – Celia Imrie
Queen of the Waves – Janice A. Thompson
The Reef – Nora Roberts
The Seat Beside Me – Nancy Moser
Set Sail for Murder – Richard Tyler Jordan
Surviving Savannah – Patti Callahan Henry
Troubled Waters – Susan May Warren
Undertow – Cherry Adair
Voices from the Titanic – James Walker
Adult Nonfiction/Biographies:
At Blanchard’s Table: A Trip to the Beach Cookbook – Melinda Blanchard
The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth – Lena Lencek
The Beach House Cookbook: Easy Breezy Recipes with a Southern Accent – Mary Kay Andrews
The Dead and Those about to Die: D-Day: The Big Red One at Omaha Beach – John C. McManus
Does This Beach Make Me Look Fat? – Lisa Scottoline
The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family – John Glatt
Every Man a Hero: A Memoir of D-Day, the First Wave a Omaha Beach, and a World at War – Ray Lambert
Jimmy Buffet: A Good Life all the Way – Ryan White
The Lobster Roll and Other Pleasures of Summer by the Beach – Jodi Della Femina
Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime – Cutter Wood
Scenes from the Beach – George Thatcher
1912 Facts about the Titanic – Lee W. Meredith
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories – Simon Winchester
Black Wave: A Family’s Adventure at Sea and the Disaster that Saved Them – John Silverwood
Columbus: The Four Voyages – Laurence Bergreen
The Cruise Handbook: Inspiring Ideas and Essential Advice for the New Generation of Cruises and Cruisers – Michelle Baran
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania – Erik Larson
Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II – Bruce B. Henderson
Fishes of the Open Ocean: A Natural History & Illustrated Guide – Julian G. Pepperell
Ghosts of the Titanic – Charles R. Pellegrino
Hunting Pirate Heaven: In Search of the Lost Pirate Utopias of the Indian Ocean – Kevin Rushby
In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of its Survivors – Doug Stanton
In the Heart of the Sea – Nat Philbrick
Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man – Lynn Vincent
Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFOs – Ivan Terence Sanderson
Jacques Perrin Presents Oceans – Francois Sarano
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey Into the Dark Antarctic Night – Julian Sancton
The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian – David Dryer
Missing: A Memoir – Lindsay Harrison
Moby-duck: The True Story of 28,000 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who went in Search of Them – Donovan Hohn
A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean – Tori Murden McClure
The Prefect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea – Sebastian Junger
Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex – Nat Philbrick
Sailing into the Abyss: A True Story of Extreme Heroism on the High Seas – William R. Benedetto
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World – Lincoln P. Paine
Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World’s Coasts and Beneath the Seas – Carl Safina
Swimming Lessons: Life Lessons from the Pool, from Diving in to Treading – Penelope Niven
A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable – John Steele Gordon
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand
Voyages of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the World They Came From – R. P. T. Davenport-Hines
Windhaven: The Graphic Novel – Lisa Tuttle
All Brave Sailors: The Sinking of the Angle-Saxon, August 21, 1940 – J. Revell Carr
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library – Edward Wilson-Lee
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity – Alberto Angela
Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff – Cathryn J. Prince
Fatal Treasure: Greed and Death, Emeralds and Gold, and the Obsessive Search for the Legendary Ghost Galleon Atocha – Jedwin Smith
Great Lakes Shipwrecks & Survivals – William Ratigan
Hidden Warships: Finding World War II’s Abandoned, Sunk, and Preserved Warships – Nick Veronico
The Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the U.S.S. Jeanette – Hampton Sides
Island of the Blue Foxes: Disaster and Triumph of the World’s Greatest Scientific Expedition – Stephen R. Bown
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Coltilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning – Ben Raines
The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind – Amanda M. Fairbanks
Young Adult Titles
Young Adult
Haunting the Deep – Adriana Mather
The Siren – Kiera Cass
Waterfall – Lauren Kate
I Will Save You – Matt de la Pena
Just for the Summer – Karin N. Mango
The Moon and More – Sarah Dessen
Ship Breaker – Paola Bacigalupi
South Beach – Aimee Friedman
Storm-wake – Lucy Christopher
The Summer I Turned Pretty – Jenny Han
This One Summer – Mariko Tamaki
Twisted Summer – Willo Davis Roberts
The Watcher – James Howe
Daughter of the Pirate King – Tricia Levenseller
The Girl from Everywhere – Heidi Heilig
Peril of the Sea – Michael Cadnum
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Unhooked – Lisa Maxwell
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
Max: A Maximum Ride Novel – James Patterson
The Voyage of the Frog – Gary Paulsen
A Ring of Endless Light – Madeline L’Engle
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Save Me – Jenny Elliott
Swimming with the Whales – Ella Thorp Ellis
Whalesong – Robert Siegel
White Whale – Robert Siegel
Leaving Protection – Will Hobbs
Outer Banks: Lights Out – Alyssa B. Sheinmel
Midwinterblood – Marcus Sedgwick
Sky in the Deep – Adrienne Young
A Hundred Hours of Night – Anna Woltz
Into the Hurricane – Neil O. Connelly
Island Boyz: Short Stories – Graham Salisbury
Savage – Tom Sniegoski
Voyage of the Dolphin – Gilbert Morris
Life As We Know It – Susan Beth Pheffer
The Living – Matt de la Pena
Nation – Terry Pratchett
Adrift – Paul Griffin
Shock Waves – Chris Westwood
Airborn – Kenneth Oppel
Before We Go Extinct – Karen Rivers
Beta – Rachel Cohn
Burn for Burn – Jenny Han
Captain Hawaii – Anthony Dana Arkin
Caraval – Stephanie Garber
The Cousins – Karen M. McManus
The Crown’s Game – Evelyn Skye
Dark Shimmer – Donna Jo Napoli
The Girl of Ink and Stars – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
The Island – Gary Paulsen
Island Boyz: Short Stories – Graham Salisbury
The Island Keeper – Harry Mazer
Keeper of the Night – Kimberly Willis Holt
Looking for Group – Rory Harrison
Nobody’s Prize – Esther M. Friesner
Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys
The Emerald Sea – Richelle Mead
The Great Wide Sea – Madaline Herlong
The Last True Poets of the Deep – Julia Drake
Strange Objects – Gary Crew
Terry and the Pirates – Julian F. Thompson
Wilder Girls – Rory Power
Peter Duck: A Treasure Hunt of the Caribbees – Arthur Ransome
Ghost Canoe – Will Hobbs
Leaving Protection – Will Hobbs
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
Young Adult Series
The Brotherband Chronicles – John Flanagan
The Outcasts
The Invaders
The Hunters
Slaves of Socorro
Scorpion Mountain
The Ghostfaces
The Caldera
Undertow – Michael Buckley
Undertow
Raging Sea
Heart of the Storm
Passenger – Alexandra Bracken
Passenger
Wayfarer
Bloody Jack Adventures – L.A. Meyer
Bloody Jack
Curse of the Blue Tattoo
Under the Jolly Roger
In the Belly of the Bloodhound
Mississippi Jack
My Bonny Light Horseman (available on the Hoopla app)
Rapture of the Deep
The Wake of the Lorelei Lee
The Mark of the Golden Dragon
Viva Jacquelina! (available on Hoopla)
Wild Rover No More (available on Hoopla)
Shark Girl – Kelly L. Bingjam
Shark Girl
Formerly Shark Girl
Darkness Rising – Kelley Armstrong
The Gathering
The Calling
The Rising
Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs
Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children
Hollow City
Library of Souls
A Map of Days
The Conference of the Birds
The Desolations of Devil’s Acre
Sea of Trolls – Nancy Farmer
The Sea of Trolls
The Land of the Silver Apples
The Islands of the Blessed (available on Hoopla)
Seafire Trilogy
Seafire
Steel Tide
Stormbreak
Edge of Nowhere
The Edge of Nowhere
The Edge of Water (available through Interlibrary loan)
The Edge of the Shadow
The Edge of Light
Young Adult Nonfiction
Trashing the Planet: Examining Our Global Garbage Glut – Stuart A. Kallen
Unbroken: An Olympian’s Journey From Airman to Castaway to Captive – Laura Hillenbrand
Buccaneers & Pirates of Our Coasts – Frank Richard Stockton
Gold & Silver, Silver & Gold: Tales of Hidden Treasure – Alvin Schwartz
Coral Reefs – Lesley A. DuTemple
Nature Strikes Back – John Gabriel Navarra
Floods – Michael Allaby
Escape from the Island of Ice – Philippe O’Grady
Ghost in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska’s WWII Invasion – Samantha Seiple
The Wreck of the Barque Stefano off the North West Cape of Australia in 1875 – Gustave Rathe
Spring Booklists
Chapter Books and Junior Non-Fiction
Young Adult and Adult
