📚 Skydiving

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The fall by choice: freefall and canopy, and the thousand-foot problem of landing well.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject skydiving in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
How do parachutes work?	Jennifer Boothroyd	2012	8
Parachuting	Dan Poynter	1978	5
Parachuting for sport	Jim Greenwood	1962	4
The Sky People	Peter Hearn	1990	4
Skysurfing	Holly Cefrey	2003	4
Skydiving	Shane McFee	2008	4
Above All Else	Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld	2011	4
Sky diving	Bud Sellick	1961	3
Skydiving	Lesley Gale	2008	3
Parachuting	Madden Travis Works	1975	2
Skydiving	Christopher Meeks	1991	2
Sky rider	Andy Belcher	1999	2
Skydive	Christopher Donaldson	2001	2
Parachuting	Dan Poynter	2003	2
Skydiving (Extreme Sports)	John E. Schindler	2005	2
Birdmen, batmen, and skyflyers	Michael Abrams	2006	2
Skydiving	Frances Ridley	2006	2
Freefall Game	Nick Kelso	2009	2
Bird dream	Matt Higgins	2014	2
Skydiving	Carla Mooney	2015	2
Would You Dare Go Skydiving?	Robert Kennedy	2016	2
Triumphs of Human Flight	Harris, Tim	2018	2
The complete book of sky diving	Liebers, Arthur	1968	1
Bailout; the story of parachuting and skydiving	Don Dwiggins	1969	1
Human revolt	William Arthur Harper	1970	1
Skydiving	Eleanor Kay	1971	1
Le parachutisme	Claude Bédard	1973	1
Fallschirmsport in Wort und Bild	Beckmann, Uwe.	1974	1
Skies call	Andy Keech	1974	1
Sport parachuting	Ryan, Charles W.	1975	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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