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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.28 — 42,598 ratings — published 2015
Malibu Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,366,101 ratings — published 2021
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,770 ratings — published 2010
Breath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.91 — 26,810 ratings — published 2008
In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,131 ratings — published 2001
Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,315 ratings — published 2010
Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.86 — 902 ratings — published 1996
Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,079 ratings — published 2009
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.17 — 29,867 ratings — published 2006
Tapping the Source (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,094 ratings — published 1984
Pipe Dreams: A Surfer's Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,239 ratings — published 2003
The History of Surfing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.50 — 239 ratings — published 2009
The Dawn Patrol (Boone Daniels #1)
by (shelved 15 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,958 ratings — published 2008
Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell: A True Story of Violence, Corruption, and the Soul of Surfing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,255 ratings — published 2013
Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,904 ratings — published 2004
Surf Is Where You Find It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,180 ratings — published 2008
Eddie Would Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,073 ratings — published 2002
In Waves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,813 ratings — published 2019
Surf Science : An Introduction to Waves for Surfing (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.11 — 209 ratings — published 1905
Raw Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,797 ratings — published 2009
The Wrong Mr. Right (Queen's Cove, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.96 — 47,318 ratings — published 2022
Liquid Comfort - A Surf Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.01 — 85 ratings — published 2013
The Gentleman's Hour (Boone Daniels, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,814 ratings — published 2011
Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,762 ratings — published 2018
Surf's Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,315 ratings — published 2016
The World in the Curl: An Unconventional History of Surfing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.10 — 127 ratings — published 2013
West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.86 — 930 ratings — published 2006
Making Mavericks (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.35 — 602 ratings — published 2012
The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,273 ratings — published 2023
The Summer We Fell (The Summer, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.99 — 41,775 ratings — published 2023
Bad Karma: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,977 ratings — published
Alex, Approximately (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.93 — 55,805 ratings — published 2017
Into the Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.94 — 732 ratings — published 2016
The Dogs of Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,207 ratings — published 1997
The California Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,802 ratings — published 2025
The Sea Ain't Mine Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,102 ratings — published 2019
Surf For Your Life: Mick Fanning (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.09 — 458 ratings — published 2009
All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.24 — 537 ratings — published
Chasing Forever Down (Great White Surf Saga)
by (shelved 7 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.03 — 937 ratings — published 2013
Surfer Chick (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.71 — 470 ratings — published 2012
Ghost Wave: The Discovery of Cortes Bank and the Biggest Wave on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.04 — 559 ratings — published 2011
Under the Wave at Waimea (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,986 ratings — published 2021
Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.06 — 286 ratings — published 2015
The Fear Project: What Our Most Primal Emotion Taught Me About Survival, Success, Surfing . . . and Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.06 — 611 ratings — published 2013
Tijuana Straits (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.81 — 920 ratings — published 2004
Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,715 ratings — published 2009
The Tribes of Palos Verdes (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as surfing)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,235 ratings — published 1997
On a Wave (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as surfing)
avg rating 4.01 — 161 ratings — published 2002
“but I guess I’ve been avoiding her. I haven’t had “the energy to be ‘on’ and cheerful; nor do I want to dissolve into sobs. I guess this is how people slowly turn into recluses.”
― The Burnout
― The Burnout
“It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.”
― Sex and Rage
― Sex and Rage














