📚 Surfing

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The sport of riding water: how it works, where it came from, and the whole culture built around waiting for the right wave.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject surfing 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
The American surfer	Kristin Lawler	2010	8
Pipe Dreams	Kelly Slater	2003	7
Surfing	Alf Alderson	2006	7
All for a Few Perfect Waves	David Rensin	2007	7
Barbarian days	William Finnegan	2015	7
Soul Surfer	Bethany Hamilton	2004	6
Cocaine + surfing	Chas Smith	2018	6
The complete book of surfing	Peter L. Dixon	1965	5
Surfing and Social Theory	Nicholas J. Ford	2005	5
Surf Is Where You Find It	Gerry Lopez	2008	5
Surfing	Shane McFee	2008	5
Amazing Surfing Stories	Alex Wade	2012	5
The book of windsurfing	Mike Gadd	1980	4
History of Surfing	Nat Young	1984	4
Surfing	Sam George	1990	4
Fit to Surf	Rocky Snyder	2001	4
Surf's up	Louise Southerden	2005	4
Some like it cold	William Povletich	2010	4
Kiteboarding	Betsy R. Cassriel	2015	4
Surfing, the sport of Hawaiian kings	Ben R. Finney	1966	3
A guide to surfriding in New Zealand	Wayne Warwick	1978	3
Stealing the wave	Martin, Andrew	2007	3
The book of surfing	Michael Fordham	2008	3
Pop Surf Culture	Brian Chidester	2008	3
Saltwater Buddha	Jaimal Yogis	2009	3
Kiteboarding	Alex Hapgood	2014	3
The Stand-Up Paddler's Guide to Southern California	David Womack	2015	3
Maddie's Pet Peeve	Betsy R. Cassriel	2015	3
Big Wave Surfing	Jim Buckley	2015	3
Stoked!	Chris Bertish	2015	3

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

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