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Martha In Paris
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Framed in Death (In Death, #61)
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Very Old Bones (Albany Cycle, #5)
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Carnevale
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Rainbow on the Road
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Die Eismalerin
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Don't Point that Thing at Me (Charlie Mortdecai #1)
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The Rebirth of Venus (The Botticelli Trilogy, #3)
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4.64 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Beginner's Book of Dreams
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3.91 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Night Street
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The Secret of the Glass
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Donna Russo Morin (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 274 ratings
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The Clown
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Three-Day Town (Deborah Knott Mysteries #17; Sigrid Harald #9)
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The Romance of a Christmas Card
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Syster och bror
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Purple, Green and Yellow
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Mozart's Journey to Prague
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Bunny (Bunny, #1)
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Mona Awad (Goodreads Author)
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Yankee Doodle Painter
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| 620 |
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Pangur Ban
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| 620 |
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Sweet Water
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Christina Baker Kline (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 8,446 ratings
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| 620 |
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Murder at Wicklow Mensa (Mensa Mystery, #5)
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Clare O'Beara (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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| 620 |
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The Fine Art of Truth or Dare
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Melissa Jensen (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 7,472 ratings
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| 620 |
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Cannibals and Missionaries
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3.28 avg rating — 69 ratings
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| 620 |
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Trutor & The Balloonist
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| 620 |
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The Mask Carver's Son
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Alyson Richman (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 681 ratings
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| 620 |
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Waking Raphael: A Novel
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2.95 avg rating — 314 ratings
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| 620 |
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Each One Special
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4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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| 620 |
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A Color of His Own
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4.26 avg rating — 22,210 ratings
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| 620 |
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Bel Canto
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| 620 |
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The House at Spaniard's Bay
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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| 620 |
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And Only to Deceive (Lady Emily, #1)
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Tasha Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 21,483 ratings
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| 633 |
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Northern Exposure: A Novel
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2.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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| 633 |
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Bad Vibes
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| 633 |
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Same Difference
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Siobhan Vivian (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 2,460 ratings
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| 633 |
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The Rose Rabbi
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3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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| 633 |
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The Truth About Lorin Jones
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| 633 |
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Holbrook: A Lizard's Tale
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Bonny Becker (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Mermaid Collector
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Erika Marks (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 605 ratings
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| 633 |
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Blindspot
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3.57 avg rating — 1,170 ratings
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| 633 |
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From Poppa
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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| 633 |
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The Gravity of Birds
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Tracy Guzeman (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 5,881 ratings
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| 633 |
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The Girl in Blue
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3.88 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
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| 633 |
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Bridget's Beret
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Tom Lichtenheld (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 890 ratings
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The Lost Stradivarius
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3.52 avg rating — 809 ratings
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| 633 |
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A Noble Radiance (Commissario Brunetti, #7)
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4.06 avg rating — 13,036 ratings
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| 633 |
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Frances's Story
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| 633 |
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Summer at Conwenna Cove
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Darcie Boleyn (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 2,475 ratings
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Caetana's Sweet Song
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2.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Raw Silk
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3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Headhunters
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Jo Nesbø (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 39,333 ratings
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Immortal
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Traci L. Slatton (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 890 ratings
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Something in the Water (Peter Shandy, #9)
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3.97 avg rating — 896 ratings
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The Big Music
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Quietly in Their Sleep (Commissario Brunetti, #6)
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3.95 avg rating — 11,654 ratings
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The Mystery of the Lost Cezanne (Verlaque and Bonnet, #5)
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M.L. Longworth (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 2,070 ratings
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Martin of Gfenn
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Martha Kennedy (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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North Woods
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Daniel Mason (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 99,824 ratings
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| 659 |
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Indelible
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3.57 avg rating — 51 ratings
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| 659 |
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Little Blue and Little Yellow: A Story for Pippo and Other Children
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4.14 avg rating — 6,590 ratings
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Painting Time
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3.50 avg rating — 1,774 ratings
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The Noise of Time
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3.75 avg rating — 26,406 ratings
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Horse
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Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 196,377 ratings
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Death and Restoration (Jonathan Argyll, #6)
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3.69 avg rating — 1,155 ratings
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Fugitive Blue
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Dani Shapiro (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Ink (Paper Gods, #1)
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Amanda Sun (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 10,035 ratings
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Dhalgren
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The Creation of Eve
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Lynn Cullen (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 2,038 ratings
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A Glancing Light (The Chris Norgren Mysteries, #2)
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3.82 avg rating — 917 ratings
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Janes in Love (Janes, #2)
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Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 2,144 ratings
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The Secret Room
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4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Write My Name Across the Sky
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Barbara O'Neal (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 39,025 ratings
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The Garden of the Peacocks
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The Fine Art of Murder (Murder, She Wrote, #36)
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Paris Red
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The Night in Question
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Laurie Graham (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 221 ratings
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The Truth About Love (Cynster, #12)
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Stephanie Laurens (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 5,067 ratings
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The Plain Janes (Janes, #1)
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Cecil Castellucci (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 7,311 ratings
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Songs for the Cold of Heart
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Éric Dupont (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 1,657 ratings
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Death at La Fenice (Commissario Brunetti, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 41,883 ratings
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Parade
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| 682 |
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Bel Lamington (Bel Lamington #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 1,216 ratings
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Schatten an der Wand
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Riders in the Chariot
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The Season of Migration
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Nellie Hermann (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Mermaid Garden
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Homeport
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 17,879 ratings
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For the Sake of Elena (Inspector Lynley, #5)
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Elizabeth George (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 17,803 ratings
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Me, Frida
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Amy Novesky (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 591 ratings
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All That Sang
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On Beauty
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The Magnolia Palace
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Fiona Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 81,251 ratings
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Divine Concepts Of Physical Beauty
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Der Maler des Verborgenen
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Set This House on Fire
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Girl in the Afternoon
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Serena Burdick (Goodreads Author)
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The City of Falling Angels
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Palladio
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Family Jewels (Stone Barrington, #37)
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Book of Colours
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Robyn Cadwallader (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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