Welcome to the Lost Boys' Book Club

A place for the wanderers, the explorers and the wave chasing travelers. Driven by a love of great prose and glassier waves, we are finding you the perfect paperback travel companions. We can help you discover Morocco with Eggers or Puerto Rico with Hunter. Dive in below by searching a travel location and finding our recommended reading.

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View fullsize ‘Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if nobody in the outside world.’ NYC with Patti Smith and her class
View fullsize Rip through the woods and then rip into some Walden. #whistlerblackcomb #ridemountainsreadbooks #walden #henrydavidthoreau
View fullsize Surf, tub, read, repeat! Christmas in Tofino is best paired with the BC classic The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet. #ridewavesreadbooks #tofino #tofinobc #surftofino @theshorelinetofino
View fullsize ‘Surf by day, Jam by night’ - We’d throw a bit of reading into the mix but otherwise it sounds pretty perfect. Loving this new book by @ashgrunwald 🔥 Awesome interviews with some of the worlds best musicians and surfers including @
View fullsize ‘Ever since I was a little boy my father had told me that the world was a bad place. The world is bad and people are bad. Don’t trust anyone, don’t talk to strangers, all of that. My parents drilled that into me, my teachers drilled
View fullsize After a lot of recommendations I’m dipping into Didion for the first time. She seems to have this way of finding the profound in the mundane. Great read for a California exploration.
View fullsize I’ve been a fan of @surfsplendor podcast for a long time and was lucky enough to have dinner with the gracious host himself a couple of weeks back. Really dug this episode with shaper and English professor out of Jersey, @mencel_surfboards As a
View fullsize Hella swells and Heller reads! Giving the arms a rest with some Catch 22 in between sessions with Cyclone Oma-gosh. A keen sense of the absurd is needed to handle the crowds. If we don’t get washed away come and visit us @byronbaysurffestival m
View fullsize Lost Boys’ Book Club is coming to the @byronbaysurffestival this weekend! Come by the stand on Saturday and chat books and barrels with us. We’ll also have some tees, tote bags, stickers and books for sale. See you this Saturday! #lostbo
View fullsize The books are calling, rip in! #loudandclear #ridewavesreadbooks #lostboysbookclub
View fullsize Ronny was disappointed to find that the onshore had kicked in. Pondering whether or not to hit it he thought he would heed the advice of his mates @lost_boys_book_club and #ridewavesreadbooks
View fullsize @stephaniegilmore hasn’t written a book yet...so for now we’ll make do with her latest article in @tracksmag by Emily Brugman entitled ‘Water Dancer’ - Give it a read for a glimpse into the return of Steph Gilmore, it’ll