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The House on Mulberry Street (Blue Cedar Falls #3)
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Saint Sebastian's Abyss
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When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth
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The House Girl
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The Versions of Us
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Burntcoat
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Family Happiness
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The Loser
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Battle King (Princes of Devil's Creek, #4)
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Jillian Frost (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 1,739 ratings
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The Law of Moses (The Law of Moses, #1)
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Amy Harmon (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 38,728 ratings
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The Mystery Roast
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Peter Gadol (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Artemisia
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A Fine Imitation
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The Last Weynfeldt
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Lea: A Novel
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The Accidental Countess (The Aristocrat Diaries, #3)
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Emma Hart (Goodreads Author)
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Remember Ben Clayton
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Stephen Harrigan (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 732 ratings
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Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury, #5)
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Martha Grimes (Goodreads Author)
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Dear Shameless Death
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Perfect Touch
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False Dawn
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The Prague Sonata
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Bradford Morrow (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 3,420 ratings
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Plays Well with Others
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The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade
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The Fool's Run (Kidd & LuEllen, #1)
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The Ensemble
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Aja Gabel (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 10,604 ratings
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Let Me Tell You About a Man I Knew
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Exquisite Corpse
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3.73 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Mr. Fox
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Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 11,498 ratings
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Will & Tom
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The Empress File (Kidd & LuEllen, #2)
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Eleanor's Secret
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Caroline Beecham (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 294 ratings
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The Boston Castrato
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Colin W. Sargent (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Orchid & the Wasp
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Caoilinn Hughes (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 1,065 ratings
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The Clockmaker's Daughter
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Kate Morton (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 105,741 ratings
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Cascade
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Maryanne O'Hara (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 1,775 ratings
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Insatiable Appetites (Stone Barrington, #32)
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
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Jennifer Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 37,185 ratings
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A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie, #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 15,143 ratings
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
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The Italian Teacher
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Tom Rachman (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 7,768 ratings
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| 742 |
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The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals
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The Miracles of Prato
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Laurie Lico Albanese (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 800 ratings
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| 742 |
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Love Song for a Raven
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Elizabeth Lowell (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 990 ratings
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From a View to a Death
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The Artist's Portrait
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Julie Keys (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Charmed
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Alexa Riley (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 4,279 ratings
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Loot
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Tania James (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 7,865 ratings
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The Ancient Child
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3.76 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Worst Fears Realized (Stone Barrington, #5)
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4.03 avg rating — 9,208 ratings
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Masterclass
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3.65 avg rating — 247 ratings
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The Portrait of Molly Dean (Alex Clayton Art Mystery #1)
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Katherine Kovacic (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 507 ratings
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A Chance to See Egypt
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3.36 avg rating — 66 ratings
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The Painter
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3.46 avg rating — 395 ratings
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Eight Days To Live (Eve Duncan, #10)
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Iris Johansen (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 8,366 ratings
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The Tsar of Love and Techno
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Anthony Marra (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 18,137 ratings
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The Sparsholt Affair
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3.54 avg rating — 6,658 ratings
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The Girl in the Picture: Don’t miss this haunting, historical mystery fiction!
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Kerry Barrett (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 5,530 ratings
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| 759 |
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Points of Light
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Linda Gray Sexton (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 90 ratings
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| 759 |
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Divine Evil
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 21,288 ratings
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The Marvels
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3.99 avg rating — 20,870 ratings
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The Troll Garden
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3.77 avg rating — 406 ratings
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The Paris Winter
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Imogen Robertson (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 4,347 ratings
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Vintage Contemporaries
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Dan Kois (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 1,405 ratings
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| 765 |
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Angel Angel
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3.76 avg rating — 87 ratings
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| 765 |
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The Most Beautiful Woman in Florence: A Story of Botticelli
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Alyssa Palombo (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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Luring a Lady (The Stanislaskis, #2)
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 7,261 ratings
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One Coffee With (Sigrid Harald, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 1,617 ratings
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The Debt to Pleasure
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3.74 avg rating — 3,115 ratings
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An Indiscreet Princess
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Blue Ruin
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Hari Kunzru (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 2,613 ratings
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| 772 |
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Saffy's Angel (Casson Family, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 4,778 ratings
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| 772 |
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Stolen Beauty
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Laurie Lico Albanese (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 4,517 ratings
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| 772 |
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Saint's Gate (Sharpe & Donovan, #1)
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Carla Neggers (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 2,756 ratings
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Plantation Shudders (Cajun Country Mystery, #1)
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Ellen Byron (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 4,017 ratings
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My Last Summer with Cass
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Biography of X
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Catherine Lacey (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 15,143 ratings
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| 778 |
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Indigo's Star (Casson Family, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 2,697 ratings
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Beauty in Thorns
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Kate Forsyth (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 588 ratings
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Murder on Black Swan Lane (Wrexford & Sloane, #1)
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Andrea Penrose (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 16,068 ratings
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Honeybath's Haven
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2.98 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Sun Walks Down
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3.70 avg rating — 4,146 ratings
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Self-Portrait with Boy
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Rachel Lyon (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 2,121 ratings
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| 784 |
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Permanent Rose (Casson Family, #3)
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4.08 avg rating — 2,217 ratings
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Death on Doomsday
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4.16 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Scribe of Siena
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Melodie Winawer (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 5,917 ratings
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The Silent Patient
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Alex Michaelides (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 3,092,861 ratings
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Alison
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4.31 avg rating — 2,434 ratings
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Held
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3.51 avg rating — 10,835 ratings
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| 790 |
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Ain't She Sweet?
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 26,376 ratings
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Crows over the Wheatfield
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Adam Braver (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Chloé
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Killing Commendatore
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| 794 |
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Bear's Picture
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3.68 avg rating — 265 ratings
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I'll Give You the Sun
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Jandy Nelson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 355,290 ratings
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Blue Smoke and Murder (St. Kilda Consulting, #4)
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Elizabeth Lowell (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,936 ratings
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The Woman on the Stairs
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3.22 avg rating — 3,815 ratings
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Alena
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Rachel Pastan (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 1,382 ratings
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Alice Springs
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3.51 avg rating — 359 ratings
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The Art of Deception
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 7,608 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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