Summer Reading has
begun! At a loss for what to read? Dive below the waves and learn about marine
life or the shipwrecks that lie on the ocean floor, or sail above and enjoy a
maritime adventure. Take a look at this list on the Library’s Adult Summer
Reading theme, Beneath the Surface.
Read a classic nautical
yarn:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
Master and Commander, by Patrick O’Brian
Mutiny on the Bounty, by Charles Nordhoff
Captain Horatio Hornblower, by C.S. Forester
Check out another tale
of the sea:
The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancy
Jaws, by Peter Benchley
The Reef, by Nora Roberts
The Log from the Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck
(published in The Grapes of Wrath and
Other Writings)
Deep Storm, by Lincoln Child
The Caine Mutiny, a Novel of World War II, by
Herman Wouk
Or science fiction:
Meg: Primal Waters, by Steve Alten
The Ghost from the Grand Banks, by Arthur C. Clarke
And learn about the
ocean in these non-fiction selections:
The Discovery of the Titanic, by Robert D. Ballard
Exploring the Lusitania,
by Robert D. Ballard
The Discovery of the Bismarck, by Robert D. Ballard
Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria, by Kevin F. Murray
Shadow Divers: the True Adventure of two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II, by Robert Kurson
Leviathan Or the Whale: In Search of Giants of the Sea, by Philip Hoare
In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick
While the ocean is an
interpretation of the theme of ‘Beneath the Surface,’ there could be many more.
What are some other books that could fit this theme?
-Emily Miller
Librarian
Reference Dept.
