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Doors Open
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Tied Up In Tinsel (Roderick Alleyn, #27)
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Hand in Glove (Roderick Alleyn, #22)
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Still Life
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The Medici Curse
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The Ruby Ring
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Diane Haeger (Goodreads Author)
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The Marlowe Conspiracy
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3.34 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Thomas Crown Affair
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Brideshead Revisited
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La Tour Dreams of the Wolf Girl
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In Praise of Truth: The Personal Account of Theodore Marklund, Picture-Framer
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A Song in My Heart - Including CD with Original Musical Score
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Roma Calatayud-Stocks (Goodreads Author)
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Offbeat Love Stories and More
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Jennifer K. Lafferty (Goodreads Author)
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The Ghost Painter
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Marilu Norden (Goodreads Author)
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Parle-leur de batailles, de rois et d'éléphants
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Life on Canvas (An Amish Home, #4)
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George Michael Loughmueller (Goodreads Author)
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It Happened in Boston? (20th Century Rediscoveries)
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Cobalt Blue
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Peggy Payne (Goodreads Author)
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The gallery: Finishing Touches and Final Strokes
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LK Hunsaker (Goodreads Author)
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Playing Grace
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Hazel Osmond (Goodreads Author)
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Matthias et le Diable
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A Flower in the Heart of the Painting
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Amy Krohn (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Graffiti Hack
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Elen Ghulam (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Gift for the Magus (The Botticelli Trilogy #0)
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Linda Proud (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Meester van de Schaduw
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Happy Again at Last: Life in the Art World
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The Price of Inheritance
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Karin Tanabe (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 770 ratings
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A Debt Repaid: Love and intrigue in Europe
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Beethoven's Immortal
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Jeff Fuell (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Painted Lady
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This Proud Heart
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The Stonor Eagles
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Dream Wrecks
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Dick Heimbold (Goodreads Author)
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War of the Encyclopaedists
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Christopher Robinson (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 638 ratings
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The Garden of Earthly Delights
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Robert Dodds (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 95 ratings
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The Modigliani Girl
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Jacqui Lofthouse (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Wild Wood
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,952 ratings
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Hollow Earth
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John Barrowman (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
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Alenka: A Novel of Budapest
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Katarina Bukowski (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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White Light
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Vanessa Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Principles of Navigation
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Lynn Sloan (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Appetite
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Philip Kazan (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 323 ratings
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The Art of Peeling an Orange
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Victoria Avilan (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 807 ratings
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Gioconda: A Novel of Leonardo da Vinci
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Lucille Turner (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Reconstruction
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Claudia Casper (Goodreads Author)
3.37 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Watercolours
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The Butterfly's Daughter
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Mary Alice Monroe (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 5,218 ratings
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The Competition
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Caroline Miley (Goodreads Author)
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Clear Seeing Place
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Brian Rutenberg (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
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The Queen's Prophet
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Dawn Patitucci (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Velvet Prison
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Sheldon Friedman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Orchard
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Larry Watson (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 654 ratings
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Mona Lisa's Secret (Joey Peruggia, #1)
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Phil Philips (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,587 ratings
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The Death Boat Captain
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Blair Evans (Goodreads Author)
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Running
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J.T. Cooper (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Exchanging Van Goghs
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Joe Beine (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Open Your Eyes, Jackson Ryder
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Rudy Castaneda Lopez (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Treasures of the Fourth Reich
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Patrick Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Alannah (Slater Brothers, #5.5)
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L.A. Casey (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 3,255 ratings
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The Weight of Rain (The Weight of Rain #1)
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Mariah Dietz (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,445 ratings
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A Man Becomes His Self: A Novella for Lost Souls
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Mathijs Koenraadt (Goodreads Author)
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Now You See Her
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Confess
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Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)
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Lay Figures
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Upon the Styx: The Masters Reimagined Volume 2
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Jade Kerrion (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Portrait of a Mirror
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A. Natasha Joukovsky (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 3,147 ratings
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The Book of Salt
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Monique Truong (Goodreads Author)
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At the End of the World, Turn Left
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Zhanna Slor (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 331 ratings
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De zaak Magritte
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Als ich nach Kurt Kessler suchte
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Alain Fux (Goodreads Author)
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Luster
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Raven Leilani (Goodreads Author)
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Painter to the King
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Amy Sackville (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Pet (Pet, #1)
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Akwaeke Emezi (Goodreads Author)
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An Equal Music
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The Three-Cornered World
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Ombria in Shadow
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Self-Portrait with Nothing
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Aimee Pokwatka (Goodreads Author)
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A Wound Like Lapis Lazuli
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Melody Wiklund (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Carousel Carver
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Madame Sorel's Lodger
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Tracy Wise (Goodreads Author)
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Glowrushes
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Octavo
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Sun, Sin and Surf
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Lauren Fraser (Goodreads Author)
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The Great Chinese Art Heist: Imperialism, Organized Crime, and the Hidden Story of China's Stolen Artistic Treasures
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Ralph Pezzullo (Goodreads Author)
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Diabolus in musica
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The Centaur
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The Genius
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Art
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Slaves of New York
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The Wedding: An Encounter with Jan Van Eyck
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Walking Through Time
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Lauren Walden Rabb (Goodreads Author)
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The Demon Lover
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Mars, Vol. 1
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Skim
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Time Is a River
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Mary Alice Monroe (Goodreads Author)
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Paper in a Land of Rocks and Scissors
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Christopher Keane (Goodreads Author)
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The Day the Music Died
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Blair Evans (Goodreads Author)
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La tempestad
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Damien (Slater Brothers, #5)
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L.A. Casey (Goodreads Author)
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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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