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Works of fiction about art, paintings, artists, sculptors, painters, etc.
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Laughter in the Dark
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The Recognitions
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The Doll Factory
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Elizabeth Macneal (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 25,860 ratings
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With Violets
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3.61 avg rating — 802 ratings
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Ivy
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3.36 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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I Always Loved You
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The Angel of Innisfree
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Patrick F. Rooney (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Pictures at an Exhibition
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Sara Houghteling (Goodreads Author)
3.39 avg rating — 1,445 ratings
score: 298,
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Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 585,544 ratings
score: 294,
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Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief (Mrs. Pollifax, #10)
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4.03 avg rating — 4,955 ratings
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Nostalgia
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3.50 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #5)
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Louise Penny (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 94,477 ratings
score: 291,
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La's Orchestra Saves the World
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 6,915 ratings
score: 291,
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Death at the Bar (Roderick Alleyn, #9)
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3.84 avg rating — 3,573 ratings
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Spending
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3.74 avg rating — 930 ratings
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Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pissarro
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4.09 avg rating — 771 ratings
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Clutch of Constables (Roderick Alleyn, #25)
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4.14 avg rating — 4,889 ratings
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Stealing Athena
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Karen Essex (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
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Fugitive Colors (Sigrid Harald, #8)
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4.07 avg rating — 848 ratings
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The Fifth Avenue Artists Society
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Joy Callaway (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 1,884 ratings
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Leaving Van Gogh
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Carol Wallace (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
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| 222 |
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
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Talia Hibbert (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 204,918 ratings
score: 277,
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The Bird Artist
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3.83 avg rating — 4,014 ratings
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Rodin's Lover
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Heather Webb (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,465 ratings
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With You Forever (Bergman Brothers, #4)
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Chloe Liese (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 28,191 ratings
score: 272,
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Karte und Gebiet
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3.95 avg rating — 24,382 ratings
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Still Lives
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Maria Hummel (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 33,602 ratings
score: 271,
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The Painter of Battles
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3.66 avg rating — 5,004 ratings
score: 269,
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Death of a Ghost (Albert Campion Mystery, #6)
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3.92 avg rating — 3,202 ratings
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Big Lies in a Small Town
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Diane Chamberlain (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 104,748 ratings
score: 268,
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 390,646 ratings
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A Mad, Wicked Folly
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Sharon Biggs Waller (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 4,888 ratings
score: 263,
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Ish
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4.38 avg rating — 12,002 ratings
score: 262,
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Still Life Paintings
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Karen Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 261,
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Trilby
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3.31 avg rating — 1,497 ratings
score: 258,
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Raphael, Painter in Rome
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Stephanie Storey (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 1,951 ratings
score: 255,
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A Tale for the Time Being
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Ruth Ozeki (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 133,109 ratings
score: 250,
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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4.17 avg rating — 1,435,417 ratings
score: 247,
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Still Life
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3.90 avg rating — 2,572 ratings
score: 245,
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War and Turpentine
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3.92 avg rating — 12,018 ratings
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X (Kinsey Millhone, #24)
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3.92 avg rating — 37,499 ratings
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The Sixteen Pleasures
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3.61 avg rating — 3,482 ratings
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The Girl in the Green Glass Mirror
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3.35 avg rating — 223 ratings
score: 240,
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The Fallen Angel (Gabriel Allon, #12)
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4.21 avg rating — 29,869 ratings
score: 240,
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Land of Marvels
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3.24 avg rating — 765 ratings
score: 236,
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The Calder Game (Chasing Vermeer, #3)
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3.87 avg rating — 6,481 ratings
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The Golden Notebook
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3.77 avg rating — 24,413 ratings
score: 235,
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The Underpainter
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3.67 avg rating — 2,909 ratings
score: 232,
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A Curious Earth (The Jones Trilogy, #3)
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Gerard Woodward (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 215 ratings
score: 230,
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Skin
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Kathe Koja (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
score: 226,
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Arrogance
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3.61 avg rating — 127 ratings
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The Wayward Muse
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3.42 avg rating — 410 ratings
score: 222,
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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4.15 avg rating — 29,496 ratings
score: 222,
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Baby Doll Games (Sigrid Harald #5)
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3.93 avg rating — 591 ratings
score: 220,
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The Needle in the Blood
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3.47 avg rating — 566 ratings
score: 215,
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Black As He's Painted (Roderick Alleyn, #28)
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3.80 avg rating — 2,258 ratings
score: 202,
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For the Love of Art
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Janet Goodfriend (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 202,
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A Kiss Before You Leave Me
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James Hulbert (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Stained Glass Summer
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Mindy Hardwick (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 200,
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| 258 |
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The Geometry of God
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Uzma Aslam Khan (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 316 ratings
score: 200,
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| 258 |
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Blue Nude
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Elizabeth Rosner (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 438 ratings
score: 200,
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Portrait of a Girl Running (Portraits, #1)
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J.B. Chicoine (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 111 ratings
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| 258 |
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Van Gogh Today
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Demarcation of Jack (Fractured Fidelities Trilogy, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Little Woman in Blue
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Jeannine Atkins (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The French Impressionist
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Rebecca Bischoff (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 100 ratings
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A Place to Remember
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Jenn J. McLeod (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 296 ratings
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When a Scot Ties the Knot (Castles Ever After, #3)
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Tessa Dare (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 45,849 ratings
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Twelve Bar Blues
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3.90 avg rating — 824 ratings
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Art & Sandcastle, Memoire: My Book isn't strong enough to stop a bullet but it's nice enough to attract your attention
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Portrait of a Murder (Dulcie Chambers Mysteries, #1)
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Kerry J. Charles (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 230 ratings
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From the Murky Deep (Dulcie Chambers Mysteries, #2)
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Kerry J. Charles (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Island of Glass (The Age of Magic:The Glassmakers Book 1)
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Ruth Nestvold (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 54 ratings
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L’Origine: The Secret Life of the World’s Most Erotic Masterpiece
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Lilianne Milgrom (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Portrait of a Protégé (Portraits, #2)
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J.B. Chicoine (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Van Gogh durera toujours: Nouvelles
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Marrying Mozart
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Stephanie Cowell (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 2,184 ratings
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God of Malice (Legacy of Gods, #1)
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Rina Kent (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 232,308 ratings
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The Printmaker's Daughter
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Katherine Govier (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 943 ratings
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Sphinx
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Robin Cook (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 4,879 ratings
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Murder at the Gardner (Homer Kelly, #7)
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3.67 avg rating — 343 ratings
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One Day Fiance
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Lauren Landish (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 5,162 ratings
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Midwinterblood
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3.71 avg rating — 11,874 ratings
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In the Night Cafe
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3.73 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Lonely Beard (Mail Order Mountain, #2)
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Cassie Mint (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 1,646 ratings
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Modern Art
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Marie, Dancing
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Carolyn Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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An Equal Stillness
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3.97 avg rating — 1,573 ratings
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Lost Illusions
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The Pornographer of Vienna by Crofts, Lewis (2008) Paperback
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Summer in February
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The garden of earthly delights
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Sheltered
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Alexa Riley (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 5,354 ratings
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In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper
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How to Paint a Dead Man
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The Maid's Request
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3.04 avg rating — 149 ratings
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The Marriage Portrait
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Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 192,337 ratings
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The Strays
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Masterpiece
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3.55 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Last Resort (The Collector Trilogy, #3)
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Amelia Wilde (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 1,527 ratings
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Sep 26, 2009 06:16AM
It's hard to believe The Lost Painting is non-fiction. It doesn't belong on this list, but what-the-hell. It's not a paper-chase, it's a ....a PAINT-chase, a fabulous true story. God Bless Captain Harr !
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I love art in books. It is so beautiful. I want to read all of the books on this list!
Me, too, Lisa. I just said to my husband, so many books etc
Katherine wrote: "Me, too, Lisa. I just said to my husband, so many books etc"What is your favourite on the list Katherine? My top three are:
Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Madonnas of Lennigrad
The Swan Thieves
Hi Lisa, I, too, chose Girl with the Pearl Earring but have not read the others. I picked DaVinci Code, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Girl in Hyacinthe Blue. I wrote a little blurb with each choice. I'll have to check out your other two.
Hi KatherineI 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.
The Gardner Heist is non-fiction, not fiction.
Joyce's PORTRAIT.... ?? Jessica, we need clarification here....surely you don't want books about LITERARY artists....big canna worms !
This list alone is nearly a years worth of reading. ;0
I love stories of paintings and artist - simply reading a history book is dull to me, but love the history and learning. To read in a story form is wonderful (Yes, I now the story part of it is fictitious, the passion and artistic reference is so real)
Normb4 wrote: "I love stories of paintings and artist - simply reading a history book is dull to me, but love the history and learning. To read in a story form is wonderful (Yes, I now the story part of it is fic..."You might like the crime novels of Daniel Silva. His detective, Gabriel Allon, is an art restorer by trade.
Lisa wrote: "Katherine wrote: "Me, too, Lisa. I just said to my husband, so many books etc"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.
Mayine wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Katherine wrote: "Me, too, Lisa. I just said to my husband, so many books etc"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'm surprised no one had nominated In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past): Proust 6-pack, which is widely considered one of the finest examples of the Künstlerroman novel. Well, it's there now.
Currently reading Claude & Camille: A Novel of Monet by Stephanie Cowell. It's breathtakingly beautiful. Joy of joy, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art today and was able to totally immerse myself in Monet's paintings, especially the few on view there of Camille. What a thrill - each brushstroke is alive with stories of their lives, the rich history of that time, and Monet's contemporaries (Renoir, Pissarro, Bazille, Degas...) Happy day!
Lisa wrote: "Hi KatherineI 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
Brenda wrote: "Lisa wrote: "Hi KatherineI 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.
Currently reading Elizabeth Hickey's The Painted Kiss about Gustav Klimt and Emily Floge... (Klimt's beloved muse, mistress, model - she's the woman in The Kiss.) Oh my goodness... I love Hickey's writing style, the book draws you in immediately. Richly textured, very atmospheric, the beautiful descriptions of Vienna, the various characters who come to life... The beginning is wonderful... so far, a rare gem of a book.
Irving Stone's The Agony and The Ecstasy, and Lust for Life, are my all-time favorites. BA Shapiro's The Art Forger is also really good. I just finished Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World.Now checking into these lists, can't wait for a next good read.
There's a book I read a few years ago whose title I can't remember for the life of me ... it's about a painter who uses magic to transfer his mind into other people's bodies. The names are vaguely Italian, and he lives for hundreds of years, 'reincarnating' himself by transferring himself into one young budding artist after another. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
Blind guardian - It sounds a little like a book I read by Susan Hill, but I don't remember the title.
Hi - vast list! Just to note: #138 The Hare with the Amber Eyes is non-fiction (biography). It is an excellent book though!
I am in the art world and enjoy this incredible list of wonderful books. I enjoyed The Hare with the Amber Eyes as well. The author traced the Ephrussi family through many decades. Another fascinating story is The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustave Klimt"s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Blauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor. A fascinating read as well as historical story.
Seven Days in the Art World by Thornton isn't fiction.
Strapless is not fiction. It is straight up non-fiction. Why is it on this list? It is an excellent book but doesn't belong here.
I just put RUNNING, by JT Cooper on the list. It's a crime thriller wherein the main character is an artist. If anyone really wants the full scoop - www.jtcooperauthor.com 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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