This Shorewords podcast is the second of two episodes that offer some coastal reading options for SIPers (Shelter-in-Placers) – 19 reading options for Covid-19.  Both lists have some fiction, some non-fiction and each reading option covers some aspect of the coast, the ocean, and often the people who live and work there.  The reading list is provided below; listen to the podcast to understand why these books made the list, and feel free to send me your coastal reading list – lesleycoastal@gmail.com.  If you ever want to hear me read poetry, this is your chance.
To start, here is the second half of the list are:
Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy
Remarkable Creatures – Tracy Chevalier
Sea Change – Sylvia Earle
Shipping News – Annie Proulx
Song for the Blue Ocean – Carl Safina
Travis McGee books – John McDonald
Two Years before the Mast – William Henry Dana III
Waves and Beaches – Willard Bascom
Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
Lagniappe – The Sea – Pablo Neruda poem

The books covered in the first episode were:
Susan Casey – Devil’s Teeth and The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues
Circe – Madeline Miller
Endurance – Caroline Alexander and The Storied Ice – Joan Boothe
Floating Coast – Bathsheba Demuth
Gifts from the Sea – Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Carl Hiaasen Books – Especially Tourist Season (with Shriners) and Stormy Weather (with Skink)
The Hungry Ocean – Linda Greenlaw
Kem Nunn Books – Surf Noir -- Dogs of Winter and Tapping the Source
Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger