Church of the Open Sky
By: Nat Young
3.75
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a list of titles cla…
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1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
By: William Finnegan
4.27
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
2. The Signature of All Things
By: Elizabeth Gilbert
3.87
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York… read more
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"She did not need a library; she was a library."-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
"Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?"-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
"The most urgent war is always the one fought at home"-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
"Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not."-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
3. Surf Is Where You Find It
By: Gerry Lopez
3.94
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Lopez, one of the most revered surfers of his generation, presents a collection of 41 profiles of t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
4. Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea
By: Jaimal Yogis
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Fed up with teenage life in the suburbs, Jaimal Yogis ran off to Hawaii with little more than a cop… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
5. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
By: Yvon Chouinard
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
In his long-awaited memoir, Yvon Chouinard-legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and fo… read more
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6. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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7. Wellness
By: Nathan Hill
4.00
Format: 611 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more
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"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"-Nathan Hill, Wellness
8. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
By: James Nestor
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more
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9. Mindfulness and Surfing: Reflections for Saltwater Souls
By: Sam Bleakley
3.46
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Mindfulness and Surfing casts a fresh perspective on this popular extreme sport, and explores how r… read more
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10. Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory
By: Owen Wright
4.35
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia’s finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despai… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
11. Life of Brine: A Surfer's Journey
By: Phil Jarratt
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
“In the not-so-small world of surfing, Phil Jarratt has seen it all. Luckily for us, he’s a fearles… read more
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- biography
12. Church of the Open Sky
By: Nat Young
3.75
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
What makes for a surfing life? With a blaze of groundbreaking performances and a list of titles cla… read more
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