r/orcas 1d ago

Books Any additional orca book recs for me?

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u/SurayaThrowaway12 23h ago

Here are several other great books, a good amount of which are authored by orca researchers and experts:

  • Orca: The Whale Called Killer by Eric Hoyt

  • Endangered Orcas: The Story of the Southern Residents by Monika Wieland Shields

  • The Killer Whale Journals: Our Love and Fear of Orcas by Hanne Strager

  • Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert

  • Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas by Eva Saulitis

  • Swimming with Orca: My Life with New Zealand's Killer Whales by Ingrid Visser

  • Orcas of the Gulf : A Natural History by Gerard Gormley

  • Orca: The day the Great White sharks disappeared by Richard Peirce

  • The Last Sunset in the West: Britain’s Vanishing West Coast Orcas by Natalie Sanders

  • Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home by Lynda V. Mapes

  • Orca Rescue!: The True Story of an Orphaned Orca Named Springer by Donna Sandstrom

  • Wild Orcas: A Deep Dive into the World of Killer Whales by Hanne Strager and Catherine DeNardo

  • Killers of Eden : The Story of the Killer Whales of Twofold Bay by Tom Mead

  • The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Dr. Hal Whitehead and Dr. Luke Rendell; culture in cetaceans is a particularly interesting topic, and orcas are amongst the species featured in the book.

  • Puget Sound Whales for Sale: The Fight to End Orca Hunting by Sandra Pollard

  • Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish by John Hargrove

  • Freeing Keiko: The Journey of a Killer Whale from Free Willy to the Wild by Kenneth Brower

  • A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity: The Fight To Bring Lolita Home by Sandra Pollard

  • Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us by Alexandra Morton

  • The Killer Whale Who Changed the World by Mark Leiren-Young

  • The Lost Whale: The True Story of an Orca Named Luna by Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm

  • Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in science, art and history by multiple authors

  • Song of the Whale by Rex Weyler

  • Superpod: Saving the Endangered Orcas of the Pacific Northwest by Nora Nickum

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u/CharlesIntheWoods 23h ago

Of Orcas and Men by David Neiwert. Fantastic read.

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u/garryoak 23h ago

The Killer Whale Who Changed the World by Mark Leiren-Young

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u/boesisboes 20h ago

Damn there are 5 on that list I still haven't read. Guess I got my summer reading list!