A monthly email for people who care about skateboarding in print. New releases, overlooked titles, hard-to-find books, and the occasional giveaway — a curated reading list from your fellow skate nerds.
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2026
January
- Citizen, But Without Permission by Zachary Moldof
- Insane: Anarchic Adjustment by Ged Wells
- Misfit: A Survival Guide by Sean Mortimer
2025
January
- Late September: A Novel by Amy Mattes
- XO Flowers Summer 2024 by Mike Ballard
- Fulfill The Dream by Magdalena Wosinska
- The Best of Skate Fate: 1981-1991 by Garry Scott Davis
February
- The Concrete Surfer by Pat Mills with art by Christine Ellingham
- My War by Matt L. Roar
- 92-ISH & 93-ISH by Manuel Fuentes
April
- The Fly That Flew The Speed of Sound by Andrew C. Meredith
- Skateboard Scramble by Barbara Douglass
May
- Without Permission by Zachary Moldof
- Rezballers and Skate Elders by David Kamper
- Skate and Research by Benjamin Büscher, Veith Kilberth, and Hagen Wäsche
- Skateboarding and the Senses by Sander Hölsgens and Brian Glenney
August
- Downriver, November 1949 by José Vadi
- Sacramento Noir edited by John Freeman
- The Skateboarder’s Journal by Jack Smith,
October
- High Street Lows by Walker Ryan,
- Girl Power by Hillary Carlip
- Pretty in Punk by Lauraine LeBlanc
- Surfer Girls in the New World Order by Krista Comer
November
- The Skateboard Life by Neftalie Williams, PhD
- The Medium Picture by Roy Christopher
- A tribute to our friend Rich Jacobs
December
- My First Skateboard: A New Place by Karl Watson
- Threatened By The Bell Tolls Of Time by Jono Coote
2024
October
- ‘Hi Babe, it’s me. You’ by Sam McGuire
- Late September: A Novel by Amy Mattes
- Drop In by Deborah Stoll
- Let’s Go! by Julie Flett
November
- ‘Crash Landing’ by Li Charmaine Anne
- Laser Quit Smoking Massage by Cole Nowicki
- SKATE BREAK by Trapp Projects
- Read And Destroy by Dan Adams
- Unemployable by Jason Boulter
December
- Pepper and Frannie by Catherine Lazar Odell
- There Goes Patti McGee! by Tootie Nienow
- Street Angel by Jim Rugg
- Skate for Your Life by Leo Baker
- Skate the World by Jonathan Mehring
- Skateboarding, Power, and Change by Indigo Willing & Anthony Pappalardo
- Four Wheels and a Board by Betsy Gordon & Jane Rogers
- Chipped by José Vadi