• 4 MERIT Library
• 4 Memorial Library
• 1 College Library
• 1 Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)

• 57 Books
• 2 Sound Recordings

• 2 Compact Discs

• 13 Ship captains
• 10 Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
• 10 Whales
• 10 Whaling
• 9 Whaling ships
• 8 Sailors
• 6 History, Naval
• 6 Sea stories
• 5 Adventure and adventurers
• 5 Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
• 5 Pirates
• 4 Mentally ill
• 3 Friendship
• 3 Seafaring life
• 3 Submarines (Ships)
• 2 Adventure stories
• 2 Americans
• 2 Best friends
• 2 Boats and boating
• 2 Emigration and immigration
• 2 Fishers
• 2 Friendships
• 2 History
• 2 Hornblower, Horatio (Fictitious character)
• 2 Immigrants

• 16 Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
• 6 Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
• 2 Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924
• 2 Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
• 2 Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott), 1899-1966
• 2 Goodner, David
• 2 Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976
• 2 Tsurumi, Andrea
• 1 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 1860-1937
• 1 Barth, John, 1930-2024
• 1 Baskin, Nora Raleigh
• 1 Berthoff, Warner
• 1 Blum, Hester
• 1 Bottoms, Bill
• 1 Cai, Rovina, 1988-
• 1 Callison, Brian
• 1 Christopher, John, 1922-2012
• 1 Collins, Norman, 1907-1982
• 1 Crace, Jim
• 1 Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
• 1 Dietz, Norman
• 1 Evans, I. O. (Idrisyn Oliver), 1894-1977
• 1 Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999
• 1 Grant, Mira
• 1 Guérard, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1914-2000

• 57 English
• 1 Arabic
• 1 French

• 4 England
• 4 United States
• 3 Great Britain
• 2 Arctic regions
• 1 Baltic Sea Region
• 1 Boston (Mass.)
• 1 Caribbean Area
• 1 Channel Islands
• 1 Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
• 1 Chukchi Sea
• 1 Guernsey
• 1 Ireland
• 1 Latin America
• 1 Liverpool (England)
• 1 London (England)
• 1 Mariana Trench
• 1 Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia)
• 1 Middle East
• 1 Nantucket Island (Mass.)
• 1 Pacific Ocean
• 1 Wisconsin

• 56 Fiction
• 10 Historical fiction
• 10 Sea fiction
• 7 Adventure fiction
• 6 Juvenile fiction
• 6 Psychological fiction
• 6 War fiction
• 4 Science fiction
• 3 Novels
• 3 Young adult fiction
• 2 Allegories
• 2 Audiobooks
• 2 Autobiographical fiction
• 2 Bildungsromans
• 2 Children's stories
• 2 Epic fiction
• 2 Humorous fiction
• 2 Picaresque fiction
• 2 Steampunk fiction
• 1 Comic books, strips, etc
• 1 Epic literature
• 1 Fantasy fiction
• 1 Fictin

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