Penguin Press

William Finnegan's memoir is the best book ever written about surfing, and it's not close. Decades of wave-hunting across five continents, from childhood in Honolulu to middle age in New York, rendered in prose that captures the exact texture of water moving over reef. It won the Pulitzer for a reason.

Yvon Chouinard's business memoir and environmental manifesto. How a blacksmith who made climbing gear in his garage built Patagonia into a billion-dollar company without abandoning his principles. The most influential outdoor business book ever written.