These Surfing Coffee Table Books Will Look Perfect on Your Coastal Bookshelf

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The best surfing coffee table books to add to your coastal living room decor.

If you live on the coast, near the coast, or feel inspired by the coast, chances are your home is decorated to reflect the coastal lifestyle in some way. And no coastal home is complete without coastal coffee table books.

Surfing is a big part of the coastal life and beach culture, so even if you aren’t a surfer yourself, you’ve probably sat on the beach many times watching surfers ride the waves. Surfing becomes a part of your beach culture, whether you’re actively a surfer or are a spectator.

It’s hard to imagine a coastal home or beach house without at least one surfing coffee table book! There are so many wonderful surfing coffee table books, and the photography in them is beautiful, as it captures the beach, ocean, and waves in a way you haven’t seen before and can truly appreciate, even as a non-surfer.

Learning more about surfing, the history of  surfing, and surfers who have made waves (no pun intended!) in the sport is so interesting and inspiring. It’s fun to flip through these books from time to time for inspiration not only for your coastal home decor, but for your life, as well.

When you’re not flipping through your surfing coffee table books for inspiration, they make for great home decor. Coffee table books can be styled in numerous ways in your living room:

  • On a bookshelf, standing upright or lying down, grouped with other coffee table books
  • To decorate the shelf of a side table, perhaps with a picture frame or small vase of flowers on top
  • On your coffee table, where the cover also acts as a work of art

You can also use coastal coffee table books to style a bedroom nightstand or dresser, or to style a bookshelf anywhere in your home such as a bedroom bookshelf or home office bookshelf. 

If you’re decorating your home with coastal home decor, don’t overlook including coffee table books about surfing, surfing history, and surf culture.

Coffee table books also make great gifts. If you’re visiting someone’s beach house, a coffee table book about surfing makes for an appropriate gift and can be enjoyed for many years to come in their beach house. If you know someone who loves the beach but doesn’t have a beach house, chances are they’ll also appreciate flipping through the amazing photography and perspective that a surfing coffee table book brings.

And if you’re someone who never knows what to ask for when your birthday or a holiday is coming up, why not ask for coffee table books? It’s a great opportunity to grow your collection, and it’s a gift that stands the test of time as it’s easy to move them around your home year after year to bring new life to your spaces.

This article is about the best surfing coffee table books to add to your beach house or coastal home decor.


The Best Surfing Coffee Table Books

Surfside Style: Relaxed Living by the Coast

By Fifi O’Neill

A book cover for Surfside Style with the front door of a surf shack and three surf boards in the yard.

The History of Surfing

By Matt Warshaw

A coffee table book cover that reads, The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw. There are two men lying on the book looking out towards the ocean at a big wave.

Surfing: 1778-Today

By Jim Heimann

A cover for Surfing coffee table book with a watercolor illustration of two surfers riding a wave.

Women Making Waves: Trailblazing Surfers In and Out of the Water

By Lara Einzig

The book cover for Women Making Waves, showing three women on surf boards riding a wave.

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Surf Shack: Laid-Back Living by the Water

By Nina Freudenberger

A coffee table book that says Surf Shack with an image of a surf board propped up against the wall in a bedroom.

Surf Tribe

By Stephan Vanfleteren

A green coffee table book cover that says Surf Tribe by Stephan Vanfleteren.

Waves: Pro Surfers and Their World

By Thom Gilbert

The cover of Waves: Pro Surfers and Their World coffee table book, which features a person riding a surfboard on top of a big wave.

Surf Shacks – Volume 2

By Matt Titone

Surf Shacks coffee table book cover, featuring a kitchen with a surf board in it, a close up of a surf board, and the outside of a house.

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Fifty Places to Surf Before You Die: Surfing Experts Share the World’s Greatest Destinations

By Chris Santella

The cover of the coffee table book "Fifty Places to Surf Before You Die" which features someone riding a wave in front of a large rock formation.

Surf Craft: Design and the Culture of Board Riding

By Richard Kenvin

The cover of a surfing coffee table book with many different colors and style of surf boards. There is no title written on the cover.

Surfer Magazine: 1960-2020

By Grant Ellis

The cover of Surfer Magazine coffee table book, featuring a person riding a surfboard.

Big Wave Surfer: The Greatest Rides of Our Lives

By Kai Lenny

The cover of Big Wave Surfer coffee table book, featuring someone surfing a big wave.

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This is a graphic that contains the covers of 12 surfing coffee table books. The text says, "Surfing Themed Coffee Table Books. From Stars and Anchor dot com."

This article was about the best surfing coffee table books. 

Surfing coffee table books make great coastal home decor pieces and also make for great gifts for anyone who loves the beach and coastal life.

Between the beautiful surfing photography, fresh perspectives, surfing history, and culture, there’s a surfing book that will interest just about anyone who has an appreciation for beach life and coastal life. If you’re looking for cool coffee table books, adding some to your collection about surfing is a must-do.

Which of these surfing coffee table books looks the most interesting to you? Do you like to incorporate coffee table books into your home decor? Let us know in the comments.

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