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A Tempest Soul
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Oliver Phipps (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Artemisia
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I Am Rembrandt's Daughter
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Lynn Cullen (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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The Women
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T. Coraghessan Boyle (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 11,518 ratings
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White Oleander
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Janet Fitch (Goodreads Author)
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The Muse
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The Portrait
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Lisette's List
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Seek My Face
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The Collector
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Duma Key
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 134,851 ratings
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The Piano Teacher
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The Art Thief
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Noah Charney (Goodreads Author)
3.08 avg rating — 3,615 ratings
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The Masterpiece
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Life Class (Life Class, #1)
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Artists in Crime (Roderick Alleyn, #6)
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The Vivisector
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The Marriage of Opposites
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Alice Hoffman (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 62,187 ratings
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The World to Come
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3.87 avg rating — 8,989 ratings
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Portrait of a Conspiracy (Da Vinci's Disciples #1)
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Donna Russo Morin (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 282 ratings
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Faking It (Dempseys, #2)
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Jennifer Crusie (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 19,575 ratings
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Catapult Soul
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3.98 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Murder at the National Gallery (Capital Crimes, #13)
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3.65 avg rating — 901 ratings
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Goya
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4.32 avg rating — 1,665 ratings
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To the Hilt
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4.17 avg rating — 8,881 ratings
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The Bernini Bust (Jonathan Argyll, #3)
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3.62 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
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Room
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 828,946 ratings
score: 556,
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128 |
Lady Oracle
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 15,409 ratings
score: 548,
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129 |
Diary
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 80,640 ratings
score: 547,
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Night Film
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Marisha Pessl (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 95,003 ratings
score: 544,
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Franny and Zooey
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3.96 avg rating — 237,152 ratings
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132 |
The Unknown Masterpiece
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3.81 avg rating — 6,079 ratings
score: 542,
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133 |
Of Human Bondage
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4.15 avg rating — 60,876 ratings
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134 |
The Forgery of Venus
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Michael Gruber (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 3,973 ratings
score: 528,
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135 |
A Piece of the World
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Christina Baker Kline (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 68,388 ratings
score: 523,
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136 |
The Museum of Modern Love
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Heather Rose (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 11,019 ratings
score: 506,
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137 |
The Drowning Tree
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Carol Goodman (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 4,176 ratings
score: 493,
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137 |
The Hollow (Hercule Poirot, #26)
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3.80 avg rating — 42,576 ratings
score: 493,
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139 |
The Painter
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3.83 avg rating — 16,746 ratings
score: 492,
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140 |
Regeneration (Regeneration #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 33,306 ratings
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141 |
The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 78,580 ratings
score: 489,
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142 |
Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 139,770 ratings
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142 |
Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe
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Dawn Tripp (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 6,094 ratings
score: 483,
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144 |
The Blazing World
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3.71 avg rating — 8,733 ratings
score: 474,
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145 |
The Last Nude
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3.91 avg rating — 28,013 ratings
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The Jump Artist
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3.53 avg rating — 213 ratings
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147 |
Notes from an Exhibition
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3.88 avg rating — 9,090 ratings
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148 |
Der Seidenfächer
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Lisa See (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 384,383 ratings
score: 445,
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149 |
I, Juan de Pareja
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3.77 avg rating — 8,768 ratings
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150 |
Linnea im Garten des Malers
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4.19 avg rating — 3,628 ratings
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151 |
A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 87,955 ratings
score: 441,
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152 |
Sepulchre (Languedoc, #2)
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3.80 avg rating — 22,409 ratings
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153 |
Third Girl (Hercule Poirot, #40)
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3.69 avg rating — 36,897 ratings
score: 410,
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154 |
As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel
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3.81 avg rating — 250 ratings
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155 |
The Interestings
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3.60 avg rating — 122,750 ratings
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156 |
The Raphael Affair (Jonathan Argyll, #1)
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3.53 avg rating — 3,863 ratings
score: 401,
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157 |
The Bobcat
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Katherine Forbes Riley (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 298 ratings
score: 400,
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158 |
The Arrow Chest
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Robert Stephen Parry (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 136 ratings
score: 398,
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159 |
The Painter From Shanghai
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Jennifer Cody Epstein (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 4,236 ratings
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160 |
The Sidewalk Artist
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Gina Buonaguro (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 453 ratings
score: 396,
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161 |
Mortal Love
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3.64 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Shamrock Tea
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3.62 avg rating — 217 ratings
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163 |
The Gold Bug
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3.71 avg rating — 7,324 ratings
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163 |
Madame Picasso
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Anne Girard (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 3,003 ratings
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165 |
Giotto's Hand (Jonathan Argyll, #5)
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3.62 avg rating — 1,355 ratings
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Primavera
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3.70 avg rating — 470 ratings
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167 |
Fates and Furies
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Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 146,725 ratings
score: 378,
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168 |
The Last Van Gogh
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Alyson Richman (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 3,310 ratings
score: 376,
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A Painter of Our Time
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3.88 avg rating — 347 ratings
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The Illuminator
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3.75 avg rating — 6,620 ratings
score: 370,
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The Anatomy Lesson
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3.52 avg rating — 1,829 ratings
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Autumn (Seasonal Quartet, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 80,401 ratings
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173 |
Sleep, Pale Sister
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Joanne Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 4,312 ratings
score: 366,
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The Art Fair
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3.19 avg rating — 163 ratings
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175 |
Girl Reading
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Katie Ward (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 2,593 ratings
score: 365,
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175 |
Before the Fall
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Noah Hawley (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 132,080 ratings
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Station Eleven
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Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 599,240 ratings
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Music & Silence
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Oil and Marble
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Stephanie Storey (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 11,370 ratings
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An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
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3.87 avg rating — 4,300 ratings
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The Second Mrs. Gioconda
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3.71 avg rating — 3,237 ratings
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182 |
The Muse of Edouard Manet
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M. Clifford (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Bluebeard
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4.07 avg rating — 43,914 ratings
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,417,072 ratings
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Final Curtain (Roderick Alleyn, #14)
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4.01 avg rating — 4,796 ratings
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The Ebony Tower
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The Book of Evidence
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The Glassblower of Murano
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Keeping the World Away
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3.83 avg rating — 1,005 ratings
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Company of Liars
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Karen Maitland (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 16,481 ratings
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Mistral's Daughter
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Prince of Fire (Gabriel Allon, #5)
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The Bone People
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Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
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The Last Judgement (Jonathan Argyll, #4)
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Caravaggio: A Novel
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The Snow Goose
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The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni
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The Masterpiece
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Fiona Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 32,804 ratings
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The Bellini Madonna
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What is your favourite on the list Katherine? My top three are:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Madonnas of Lennigrad
The Swan Thieves


I haven't read The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'll check out your blurb. I have read the others you recommended. It is always good to get recommendations from others with similar taste. Thank you very much Katherine.



You might like the crime novels of Daniel Silva. His detective, Gabriel Allon, is an art restorer by trade.

What is your favourite on the list Katherine? My top three are:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Madonnas of Le..."
I just finished The Swan Thieves, and love, love, loved it.

What is your favourite on the list Katherine? My top three are:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The M..."
Me too Mayine. Have you read her other book The Historian. I loved it just as much.



I haven't read The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'll check out your blurb. I have read the others you recommended. It is always good to get recommendations from others with similar tast..."
The painter is based loosely on john singer Sargent

I haven't read The Picture of Dorian Gray. I'll check out your blurb. I have read the others you recommended. It is always good to get recommendations from others with ..."
Thanks Brenda. I will add it to the list.


Now checking into these lists, can't wait for a next good read.






Anyway, one artist who read it said, through her husband on facebook, that JT "has the heart and mind of an artist as the author of this novel."
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