Books Some Recent Books I've Read Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening by Liz Clark Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea by Jaimal Yogis The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It by Daniel Knowles John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present by Howard Zinn There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen Share book reviews and ratings with JJ, and even join a book club on Goodreads.