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1.
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
by:
Olivia Laing
3.77 avg rating β 2,585 ratings
2.
Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain
by:
Roger Deakin
4.27 avg rating β 3,267 ratings
3.
Waterland
by:
Graham Swift
3.90 avg rating β 9,871 ratings
4.
Swimming Home
by:
Deborah Levy
3.43 avg rating β 16,001 ratings
5.
The Waves
by:
Virginia Woolf
4.14 avg rating β 51,032 ratings
6.
Three Men in a Boat (Three Men, #1)
by:
Jerome K. Jerome
3.83 avg rating β 78,264 ratings
7.
The Drowned World
by:
J.G. Ballard
3.47 avg rating β 20,154 ratings
8.
A River Runs Through It
by:
Norman Maclean
4.15 avg rating β 11,457 ratings
9.
A Millstone Round My Neck: The Restoration of a Cornish Water Mill
by:
Norman Thelwell
3.67 avg rating β 12 ratings
10.
Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
by:
Jean Sprackland
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 265 ratings
11.
The Swimmer
by:
John Cheever
4.03 avg rating β 5,165 ratings
12.
Ring of Bright Water (Ring of Bright Water, #1)
by:
Gavin Maxwell
4.13 avg rating β 3,382 ratings
13.
To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1)
by:
Philip JosΓ© Farmer
3.93 avg rating β 33,365 ratings
13.
The Wind in the Willows
by:
Kenneth Grahame
4.02 avg rating β 235,226 ratings
15.
Dead in the Water (Kate Shugak, #3)
by:
Dana Stabenow
4.15 avg rating β 6,586 ratings
16.
The Sea, the Sea
by:
Iris Murdoch
3.96 avg rating β 24,390 ratings
17.
By the Shores of Silver Lake (Little House, #5)
by:
Laura Ingalls Wilder
4.18 avg rating β 81,534 ratings
18.
Tarka the Otter
by:
Henry Williamson
3.75 avg rating β 2,296 ratings
19.
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
by:
Sebastian Junger
4.12 avg rating β 117,722 ratings
20.
Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront
by:
Heather Wolf
4.44 avg rating β 39 ratings
20.
River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia
by:
Jon Swain
4.17 avg rating β 1,087 ratings
20.
The Blackwater Lightship
by:
Colm TΓ³ibΓn
3.94 avg rating β 8,108 ratings
20.
Turning
by:
Jessica J. Lee
3.75 avg rating β 666 ratings
20.
Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water
by:
Kathleen Dean Moore
4.10 avg rating β 364 ratings
25.
Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest
by:
Melissa L. Sevigny
4.33 avg rating β 24 ratings
25.
The Secret River
by:
Kate Grenville
3.81 avg rating β 24,633 ratings
25.
The Swimming-Pool Library
by:
Alan Hollinghurst
3.72 avg rating β 11,029 ratings
25.
The Marsh Arabs
by:
Wilfred Thesiger
4.19 avg rating β 1,467 ratings
29.
Pondlife: A Swimmer's Journal
by:
Al Γlvarez
3.89 avg rating β 205 ratings
29.
Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
by:
Karen Schneller-McDonald
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
29.
At the Water's Edge
by:
Sara Gruen
3.68 avg rating β 83,963 ratings
29.
At Swim, Two Boys
by:
Jamie O'Neill
4.11 avg rating β 9,622 ratings
29.
Across the River and into the Trees
by:
Ernest Hemingway
3.30 avg rating β 11,364 ratings
29.
A River Sutra
by:
Gita Mehta
3.90 avg rating β 2,525 ratings
35.
The Lake of Dreams
by:
Kim Edwards
3.19 avg rating β 14,498 ratings
35.
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
by:
Shyam Selvadurai
3.75 avg rating β 1,236 ratings
35.
Wide Sargasso Sea
by:
Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating β 103,266 ratings
38.
Liquid Assets: The Lidos and Open Air Swimming Pools of Britain
by:
Janet Smith
4.60 avg rating β 10 ratings
38.
Deforestation: Social Dynamics in Watersheds and Mountain Ecosystems
by:
J. Ives
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
38.
Adventures in Ocean Exploration : From the Discovery of the Titanic to the Search for Noah's Flood
by:
Robert D. Ballard
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 41 ratings
38.
The Old Man and the Sea
by:
Ernest Hemingway
3.81 avg rating β 1,265,585 ratings
38.
Islands in the Stream
by:
Ernest Hemingway
3.88 avg rating β 16,679 ratings
38.
Mudlark River: Down the Thames with a Victorian Map
by:
Simon Wilcox
3.81 avg rating β 48 ratings
44.
Taking the Waters: A Swim Around Hampstead Heath
by:
Caitlin Davies
4.62 avg rating β 8 ratings
44.
The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution
by:
Clive Finlayson
3.54 avg rating β 69 ratings
44.
The Light Between Oceans
by:
M.L. Stedman
4.04 avg rating β 473,452 ratings
44.
Five Go Down to the Sea (Famous Five, #12)
by:
Enid Blyton
3.99 avg rating β 9,843 ratings
44.
Spring Torrents
by:
Ivan Turgenev
3.95 avg rating β 5,583 ratings
49.
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating β 156 ratings
49.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by:
Neil Gaiman
4.02 avg rating β 650,367 ratings
49.
The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (Vintage Departures)
by:
Timothy Egan
4.20 avg rating β 2,737 ratings
52.
Dip: Wild Swims from the Borderlands
by:
Andrew Fusek Peters
3.94 avg rating β 77 ratings
52.
The Edge of the Water (Whidbey Island Saga, #2)
by:
Elizabeth George
3.57 avg rating β 1,975 ratings
52.
Swim to Me
by:
Betsy Carter
3.42 avg rating β 1,126 ratings
52.
The Beach
by:
Alex Garland
3.98 avg rating β 94,562 ratings
56.
Deadwater Deep
by:
Terence Strong
3.63 avg rating β 59 ratings
56.
Something In the Water
by:
Catherine Steadman
3.55 avg rating β 223,343 ratings
56.
On Chesil Beach
by:
Ian McEwan
3.62 avg rating β 99,813 ratings
59.
Hell and High Water: My Epic 900-Mile Swim from Landβs End to John O'Groats
by:
Sean Conway
4.26 avg rating β 286 ratings
59.
The Sea
by:
John Banville
3.55 avg rating β 34,123 ratings
59.
Romancing the East: A Literary Odyssey from the Heart of Darkness to the River Kwai
by:
Jerry Hopkins
3.75 avg rating β 56 ratings
62.
Downstream: A History and Celebration of Swimming the River Thames
by:
Caitlin Davies
3.71 avg rating β 21 ratings
62.
Secret Water (Swallows and Amazons, #8)
by:
Arthur Ransome
4.17 avg rating β 2,132 ratings
62.
The River is The River
by:
Jonathan Buckley
3.58 avg rating β 33 ratings
62.
The Perfume River: An Anthology of Writing from Vietnam
by:
Catherine Cole
3.53 avg rating β 15 ratings
66.
Swimming Studies
by:
Leanne Shapton
3.97 avg rating β 2,361 ratings
66.
The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
by:
Thant Myint-U
4.02 avg rating β 1,543 ratings
68.
Dead Water (Shetland, #5)
by:
Ann Cleeves
4.12 avg rating β 20,124 ratings
68.
The Hospital by the River
by:
Catherine Hamlin
4.10 avg rating β 2,573 ratings
70.
Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do
by:
Wallace J. Nichols
3.74 avg rating β 3,802 ratings
70.
The Waterman (Daniel Jacquot, #1)
by:
Martin O'Brien
3.86 avg rating β 348 ratings
70.
On a Cold Dark Sea
by:
Elizabeth Blackwell
3.84 avg rating β 3,189 ratings
73.
Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
by:
Raymond Carver
4.19 avg rating β 886 ratings
73.
The Moon on the Water
by:
Nina Warner Hooke
4.82 avg rating β 11 ratings
73.
The Shipwreck Hunter
by:
David L. Mearns
4.04 avg rating β 559 ratings
76.
Water in England
by:
Dorothy Hartley
4.80 avg rating β 5 ratings
76.
Deadly River: Cholera and Cover-Up in Post-Earthquake Haiti
by:
Ralph R. Frerichs
4.14 avg rating β 42 ratings
76.
Salt to the Sea
by:
Ruta Sepetys
4.35 avg rating β 244,745 ratings
79.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
by:
David Sedaris
3.85 avg rating β 149,427 ratings
79.
Sea Hearts
by:
Margo Lanagan
3.69 avg rating β 4,403 ratings
81.
Nick Of The River
by:
Anthony Richardson
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
81.
A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea
by:
Dina Nayeri (author)
3.78 avg rating β 2,900 ratings
83.
The Book of the River
by:
Ian Watson
3.48 avg rating β 92 ratings
83.
The Russian Court at Sea: The Voyage of HMS Marlborough
by:
Frances Welch
3.42 avg rating β 146 ratings
85.
Barbed Wire and Babushkas: A river odyssey across siberia
by:
Paul Grogan
3.79 avg rating β 68 ratings
85.
Lucky Goes to Sea
by:
Frank Robson
3.94 avg rating β 32 ratings
87.
The Other Side Of The River
by:
Jessica Blair
3.95 avg rating β 38 ratings
87.
Lost Liners: From the Titanic to the Andrea Doria The Ocean Floor Reveals Its Greatest Ships
by:
Robert D. Ballard
4.36 avg rating β 268 ratings
89.
Moon in the River
by:
Vian Smith
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
89.
Into the Water
by:
Paula Hawkins
3.59 avg rating β 412,939 ratings
91.
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by:
Dan Fagin
4.09 avg rating β 4,618 ratings
91.
Otter Country: In Search of the Wild Otter
by:
Miriam Darlington
3.63 avg rating β 410 ratings
91.
The Light on the Water
by:
Olga Lorenzo
3.43 avg rating β 627 ratings
94.
Daughters of the Lake
by:
Jane Riddell
3.62 avg rating β 39 ratings
94.
A Taste of Chlorine
by:
Bastien Vivès
3.59 avg rating β 2,267 ratings
94.
Water for Elephants
by:
Sara Gruen
4.11 avg rating β 1,680,776 ratings
97.
Dead Angler (A Loon Lake Mystery, #1)
by:
Victoria Houston
3.83 avg rating β 1,887 ratings
97.
Caught by the River: A Collection of Words on Water
by:
Jeff Barrett
3.70 avg rating β 43 ratings
97.
The River Home
by:
Hannah Richell
3.95 avg rating β 2,250 ratings
100.
Splash: Great Writing About Swimming
by:
Laurel Blossom
4.36 avg rating β 14 ratings
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