Barbarian Days: A Surfing LifeModern · Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
2015 · 447 pages · Nonfiction
65
Modern
★ 4.28 on Goodreads · 43K ratings
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (Biography) winner (2016). 4.28★ from 43K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
65Must-Read Score
- Critics53 out of 100 · counts 35%+21
- Readers77 out of 100 · counts 50%+43
- Buzz4 out of 100 · counts 15%+1
Where it ranks
- #25 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #45 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #145 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (Biography) winner (2016)
Reads as
True story
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