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Omaha Reading Challenge 2022: Read a Book About or Featuring Water

OPL librarians have created a series of reading challenges to help you stretch beyond your comfort zone. This list features titles suggested for you to complete the "Read a book about or featuring water" challenge. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

41 items

  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    BookLondon ; New York : Saga Press, 2020. — FANTASY Roanhorse 2020
  • The Book of Eels

    Our Enduring Fascination With the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

    Svensson, Patrik, 1972-
    Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook and mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — 597 Svensson 2020
  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook.
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — FICTION Montag 2019
  • The Emerald Mile

    the Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Though the Heart of the Grand Canyon

    Fedarko, Kevin
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Scribner, c2013. — 979.13 Fedarko 2013
  • The Boys in the Boat

    Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

    Brown, Daniel James, 1951-
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Viking, [2013] — 797.12 Brown 2013
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2022. — B Shackleton Fiennes 2022
  • Disappointment River

    Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage

    Castner, Brian,
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2018] — 971.9 Castner 2018
  • Hook's Tale

    Being the Account of An Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself

    Pielmeier, John,
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2017. — FICTION Pielmeier 2017
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2020. — FANTASY Neill 2020
  • The Last Pirate of New York

    a Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation

    Cohen, Rich,
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Spiegel & Grau, [2019] — B Hicks Cohen 2019
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2021] — FICTION Imrie 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021] — FICTION Gelernter 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — FICTION St. John 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    Book[New York, New York] : Dutton, [2022] — FICTION Morrow 2022
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021. — FICTION Samson 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Scribner, 2021. — FICTION Lee 2021
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2020] — FICTION Oliveras 2020
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge blog.
    BookNew York : Jove, 2020. — FICTION Smith 2020