29 books
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18 voters
Skateboarding Books
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Slam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.25 — 27,016 ratings — published 2007
The Mutt: How to Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself – The Youngest World-Champion's Story of 35 Titles, Family Struggle, and Street Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,238 ratings — published 2004
The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder's History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.08 — 128 ratings — published 2002
Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.97 — 980 ratings — published 2000
Let's Go! (haw êkwa!)
by (shelved 6 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.03 — 288 ratings — published 2024
Mid-Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,165 ratings — published 2024
The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.86 — 244 ratings — published
Kick Push (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.80 — 450 ratings — published
Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.48 — 29 ratings — published
Impossible: Rodney Mullen, Ryan Sheckler, And The Fantastic History Of Skateboarding (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.93 — 104 ratings — published 2011
Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.54 — 142 ratings — published 2004
The Concrete Wave: The History of Skateboarding (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.12 — 72 ratings — published 1997
Dino-Boarding (Dino-Sports)
by (shelved 4 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.60 — 242 ratings — published 2014
Life and Limb: Skateboarders Write from the Deep End (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.83 — 30 ratings — published 2004
Hosoi: My Life as a Skateboarder Junkie Inmate Pastor – A Legend's Unflinching Memoir from 1980s Fame to Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.96 — 264 ratings — published 2012
Dog Trouble (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.31 — 254 ratings — published
Chipped: Writing From a Skateboarder's Lens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.02 — 41 ratings — published
Four Wheels and a Board: The Smithsonian History of Skateboarding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.26 — 27 ratings — published
Learning to Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.36 — 176 ratings — published
Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.14 — 88 ratings — published 2001
Rad! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.26 — 38 ratings — published 2020
Fox Is Late (My First I Can Read)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.91 — 382 ratings — published 2018
Skate the World: Photographing One World of Skateboarding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.43 — 53 ratings — published 2015
The Disposable Skateboard Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.57 — 108 ratings — published 2009
Under the Bridge (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.01 — 243 ratings — published 2012
Surf, Skate & Rock Art of Jim Phillips (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.36 — 53 ratings — published 2003
Smiles to Go (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,325 ratings — published 2008
Paranoid Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,666 ratings — published 2006
A Perfect Opportunity (Nook)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.62 — 45 ratings — published 2011
Scraps (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.35 — 137 ratings — published 2025
Skateboarding is Not a Crime: 50 Years of Street Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.44 — 25 ratings — published 2004
Drop In: The Gender Rebels Who Changed the Face of Skateboarding – A Cultural History of Queer Pioneers at the Tokyo Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.19 — 70 ratings — published
Stalefish: skateboard culture from the rejects who made it (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.17 — 66 ratings — published 2008
Out for Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Skateboarding and Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 5.00 — 6 ratings — published
Brorsan är kung! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.02 — 578 ratings — published 2016
Serious as Dog Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.65 — 216 ratings — published 2008
Between Boardslides and Burnout: My Notes from the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.56 — 34 ratings — published 2002
A Work in Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,702 ratings — published
Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.43 — 92 ratings — published 2010
Skater Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,775 ratings — published 2024
Skateboarding and Femininity (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
Skater Cielo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.99 — 289 ratings — published
Catalina Incognito (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.92 — 124 ratings — published
Skater Baby (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.84 — 130 ratings — published
Skate for Your Life (Pocket Change Collective)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.16 — 322 ratings — published 2021
There Goes Patti McGee!: The Story of the First Women's National Skateboard Champion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.40 — 191 ratings — published 2021
Richard Gilligan: DIY/Underground Skateparks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published 2014
Tony Hawk: Professional Skateboarder (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.96 — 465 ratings — published 2002
Stealing Air (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as skateboarding)
avg rating 3.97 — 304 ratings — published 2012
“Nothing is too gnarly.”
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“He realizes finally that the boy he's been watching snap his board into the air, then neatly touch down- long, black, gleaming hair, pale white skin- is Felice. He didn't know she'd learned how to skateboard. He's never seen her like this before- so intently focused and content- her beauty beside the point, merely part of the catalog of effects- speed, balance, daring. He admires her athletic form and feels moved in some unexpected way.”
― Birds of Paradise
― Birds of Paradise











