Books Featuring Solar Eclipses

For a bit of fun, I thought I'd look up books that feature solar eclipses. It turns out that solar eclipses have often been used as harbingers of doom or metaphors for destruction as in the example of Moby Dick by Herman Melville. This largely draws on historical, cultural, and religious interpretations of this natural event. Scientific studies of today tend to downplay the dangers of a solar eclipse, but before our current technologies could predict approaching solar eclipses, they were unexpected and often frightening or spiritual events. These mentalities live on in various aspects of cultures spiritualities, and storytelling, including literature. Below, I have assembled a list of books which feature solar eclipses. Enjoy!