Summer Challenge 2025: Ocean Books

Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Dive into one of the books about the ocean!

Updated June 26, 2025
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Waves in an impossible sea : how everyday life emerges from the cosmic ocean
Strassler, Matt
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2025 PEN / EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Big Think's Best Science Book of 2024 A theoretical physicist takes readers on an awe-inspiring journey--found in "no other book" (Science)--to discover how the universe...
The island of sea women : a novel
See, Lisa
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorMi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother...
The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder
Grann, David
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager...
Why we swim
Tsui, Bonnie
Paper Book
"A fascinating and beautifully written love letter to water. I was enchanted by this book." --Rebecca Skloot, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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