| Melville adventure novel | 24 |
| Melville autobiography/romance | 30 |
| Melville book | 13 |
| Melville book: 1847 | 19 |
| Melville captain | 16 |
| Melville character | 18 |
| Melville classic | 16 |
| Melville classic of 1847 | 24 |
| Melville creation | 17 |
| Melville effort | 15 |
| Melville foretopman | 19 |
| Melville hero | 13 |
| Melville mariner | 16 |
| Melville mariner et al. | 23 |
| Melville megalomaniac | 21 |
| Melville monomaniac | 19 |
| Melville novel | 14 |
| Melville novel about Tahiti | 27 |
| Melville novel featuring Dr. Long Ghost | 39 |
| Melville novel set in Tahiti | 28 |
| Melville novel set in the South Seas | 36 |
| Melville novel set on a whaling ship | 36 |
| Melville novel set on Tahiti | 28 |
| Melville novel setting | 22 |
| Melville novel that continued the story from "Typee" | 62 |
| Melville novel that preceded "Moby-Dick" | 50 |
| Melville novelette | 18 |
| Melville opus | 13 |
| Melville or Wouk | 16 |
| Melville potboiler | 18 |
| Melville protagonist | 20 |
| Melville romance | 16 |
| Melville sea story | 18 |
| Melville sea tale | 17 |
| Melville seaman | 15 |
| Melville sequel | 15 |
| Melville setting | 16 |
| Melville skipper | 16 |
| Melville South Seas novel | 25 |
| Melville story set on Tahiti | 28 |
| Melville tale | 13 |
| Melville tale of the South Pacific | 34 |
| Melville tale of the South Seas | 31 |
| Melville title | 14 |
| Melville title character | 24 |
| Melville title starter | 22 |
| Melville tome | 13 |
| Melville tyrant | 15 |
| Melville whaler | 15 |
| Melville work | 13 |
| Melville work before "Moby-Dick" | 42 |
| Melville work set in Tahiti | 27 |
| Melville work subtitled "A Peep at Polynesian Life" | 61 |
| Melville work: 1847 | 19 |
| Melville _____ | 14 |
| Melville's 'Billy --' | 33 |
| Melville's "--- Budd" | 35 |
| Melville's "Benito ___" | 37 |
| Melville's "Billy ___" | 36 |
| Melville's "grand, ungodly, god-like man" | 55 |
| Melville's "handsome sailor" | 42 |
| Melville's "handsome sailor" Billy | 48 |
| Melville's "Peep at Polynesian Life" | 50 |
| Melville's "Typee" sequel | 39 |
| Melville's "__-Dick" | 34 |
| Melville's "___ Budd" | 35 |
| Melville's "___ Cereno" | 37 |
| Melville's "___-Dick" | 35 |
| Melville's 1847 opus | 24 |
| Melville's Bartleby, e.g. | 29 |
| Melville's Billy | 20 |
| Melville's Budd | 19 |
| Melville's captain | 22 |
| Melville's curmudgeon | 25 |
| Melville's doomed captain | 29 |
| Melville's first novel | 26 |
| Melville's follow-up to "Typee" | 45 |
| Melville's foretopman | 25 |
| Melville's inspiration | 26 |
| Melville's Ishmael, e.g. | 28 |
| Melville's madman | 21 |
| Melville's maniacal mariner | 31 |
| Melville's mariner | 22 |
| Melville's monomaniacal mariner | 35 |
| Melville's most popular novel, in his time | 46 |
| Melville's obsessed captain | 31 |
| Melville's obsessed whaler | 30 |
| Melville's Potter | 21 |
| Melville's searcher | 23 |
| Melville's second book | 26 |
| Melville's second novel | 27 |
| Melville's sequel to "Typee" | 42 |
| Melville's skipper | 22 |
| Melville's superintendent | 29 |
| Melville's Tahiti tale | 26 |
| Melville's Vere and others: Abbr. | 37 |
| Melville's whale chaser | 27 |
| Melville's whale hunter | 27 |
| Melville's whale pursuer | 28 |
| Melville's whaler | 21 |