Reddit reviews The Cauliflower Chronicles: A Grappler's Tale of Self-Discovery and Island Living
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There's the Carlos Gracie one
https://www.budovideos.com/products/carlos-gracie-sr-biography-book-by-reila-gracie
The Cauliflower Chronicles is a good read as well
http://www.amazon.com/The-Cauliflower-Chronicles-Grapplers-Self-Discovery/dp/0982565879
I have been lucky enough to not have a broken anything yet but I would recommend that you sit in on some classes as a spectator. I think it will help to keep you in the habit of showing up and to keep your mind in the game more than watching videos.
Good luck with your recovery.
JiuJitsu University is the best book. I would also recommend the bjj globetrotter and The Cauliflower Chronicles They are both books that outline personal journeys in BJJ. Good reads.
Check out the Cauliflower Chronicles by Marshal Caper. It's a memoir of a guy who decides to go off to Hawaii for school but primarily to train with BJ Penn and what he learns throughout the process.
Edit: More books.
Related to that is A Fighter's Heart by Sam Sheridan. Sam is a pretty interesting character in his own right - he was a rich kid who went to Harvard and after graduation, instead of getting a job on Wall Street or in a lab he worked on a cruise boat, ended up in Thailand and started training Muay Thai. From there he gets into the world of MMA and the important figures in the world. Also check out his followup - A Fighter's Mind.
Here's one that isn't about BJJ or fighting but about learning. The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin - a BJJ blackbelt under Marcelo Garcia and the designer of MG in Action. Waitzkin as a kid was a high level chessmaster - touted as the next Bobby Fischer but fell away from the world of competitive chess as a teenager and switched to martial arts instead. He fell in love with the Chinese grappling art of push hands - a form of wrestling, mastered it and eventually won the championships at the highest level of competition despite only starting his training in his mid 20's. His journey to being a BJJ black belt is also as incredible - he picked up the art in his late 20's and earned his black belt before turning 35.
The book goes into his thought processes on learning new skills and how to approach it. It is an immensely helpful book for your general life - not just BJJ journey. It has been infinitely helpful for my poker game for instance.
The Cauliflower Chronicles: A Grappler's Tale of Self-Discovery and Island Living
http://www.amazon.com/The-Cauliflower-Chronicles-Grapplers-Self-Discovery/dp/0982565879