Start with high-confidence skateboarding books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Running Loose
Chris Crutcher
Stotan!
Tony Hawk
Tony Hawk, Sean Mortimer
Ironman
Go Big or Go Home
Will Hobbs
The Chief
Robert Lipsyte
Raiders Night
Skatefate
Juan Felipe Herrera
Cracking the Bell
Geoff Herbach
Medicine Wheels
Byron Graves
Rhino's Run
The Contender
Taking Sides
Gary Soto
The Boxer
Kathleen Karr
Painting the Black
Carl Deuker
Crackback
John Coy
Gym Candy
Skate
Michael Harmon
Who Is Tony Hawk?
Steve Korté
Skateboard Culture
Morgan Bouvant, Sébastien Carayol
Crash
Jerry Spinelli
Zeroboxer
Fonda Lee
Tap Out
Eric Devine
Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
Ron Koertge
Justin #1
LJ Alonge
The Life-changing Magic of Skateboarding
Sky Brown
Love & Sk8
Nancy Krulik, Nancy E. Krulik
Big Air
Lorna Schultz Nicholson
Extreme Edge
Heather Kellerhals-Stewart
