15 must-read crafts books like Visible Mending: Artful Stitchery to Repair and Refresh Your Favorite Things by Jenny Wilding Cardon

Cover of Visible Mending: Artful Stitchery to Repair and Refresh Your Favorite Things by Jenny Wilding Cardon

Visible Mending: Artful Stitchery to Repair and Refresh Your Favorite Things

By: Jenny Wilding Cardon

4.05

Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition

Rip in your jeans? Snag in a sweater? Tear in a tea towel? They all present an opportunity for one-…

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Cover of Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads into Street Couture by Melissa Alvarado, Hope Meng, Melissa Rannels, Matthew Carden

1. Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads into Street Couture

By: Melissa Alvarado , Hope Meng , Melissa Rannels , Matthew Carden

3.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

It's time to get subversive, again! The downtown divas of "Sew Subversive" are back with another ha… read more

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  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • crafts
  • how to
Cover of Mend It Better: Creative Patching, Darning, and Stitching by Kristin M. Roach

2. Mend It Better: Creative Patching, Darning, and Stitching

By: Kristin M. Roach

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Don't hide that patch, make it a bold, beautiful embellishment! Repair holes with bright thread and… read more

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  • art
  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • crafts
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3. Rivers of London: Body Work

By: Ben Aaronovitch , Andrew Cartmel , Lee Sullivan , Luis Guerrero

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

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4. The Ultimate Sashiko Sourcebook: Patterns, Projects and Inspirations

By: Susan Briscoe

4.22

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

- Easy-to-follow instructions for creating beautiful, elaborate designs with more than 90 Sashiko p… read more

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5. A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #1)

By: Charles Finch

3.27

Format: None pages,

Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his p… read more

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6. Lost For Words

By: Stephanie Butland

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

You can trust a book to keep your secret . . . Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If you look … read more

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Cover of Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1) by Mur Lafferty

7. Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.71

Format: 457 pages, Paperback

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroil… read more

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Cover of Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide by John Cleese

8. Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

By: John Cleese

3.88

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

____________________________ We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how. Creativity is … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Getting discouraged is a total waste of your time."

-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

" But once it's been agreed when that real-world decision has to happen, why make it before the deadline arrives? Why Well, it would be foolish, because if you can wait longer, two incredibly importan…"

-John Cleese, Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

Cover of Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9) by Ben Aaronovitch

9. Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

By: Ben Aaronovitch

4.33

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Now in hardcover, the ninth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns t… read more

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"What makes you think I know?' asked Zach, who, if questioned, would deny his own existence out of sheer habit."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"I saw nothing suspicious—which is unusual. A copper can usually find something suspicious if they look hard enough."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Always look after your people,' he said as I noted down the order. 'The way you treat them sets an example for the way they treat others."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

"Lips too thick and nose too wide–he looked like he’d stepped out of an early Asterix comic. Subconscious racism, I thought–it will fuck you up every time."

-Ben Aaronovitch, Amongst Our Weapons (Rivers of London, #9)

Cover of The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limon

10. The Hurting Kind: Poems

By: Ada Limon

4.34

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"

-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

Cover of Flight Risk (The Booking Agents, #2) by Cherie Priest

11. Flight Risk (The Booking Agents, #2)

By: Cherie Priest

3.72

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

Inconsistent psychic Leda Foley and Seattle detective Grady Merritt return to solve the case of a m… read more

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Cover of Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie

12. Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

By: Melody Beattie

4.13

Format: 305 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestseller that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic holds the key to un… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We work it out, or live it out."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

"A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior."

-Melody Beattie, Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself

Cover of Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts by Nina Montenegro

13. Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

By: Nina Montenegro

4.47

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn the art of visible mending—a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice—to repair the cloth… read more

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  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • crafts
  • reference
"A mended garment is a little piece of artwork that you wear around all day, on display like a living gallery wall, eliciting comments, starting conversations, an opening sentence to a good story."

-Nina Montenegro, Mending Life: A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts

Cover of Modern Mending by Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald

14. Modern Mending

By: Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald

4.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Second Edition: Now with even more clever mending hacks! Bring new life to your old clothes and … read more

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  • sewing
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • crafts
  • how to
Cover of The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro

15. The Shape of Water

By: Guillermo del Toro

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito—mute her whole life, orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humd… read more

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"Feet are what connect you to the ground, and when you are poor, none of that ground belongs to you."

-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

"What would feeling like somebody feel like? To suddenly exist not only in your world, but someone else’s as well?"

-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

"She holds him, he holds her, they hold each other, and all is dark, all is light, all is ugliness, all is beauty, all is pain, all is grief, all is never, all is forever."

-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

"But what is intelligence? Is intelligence calculations and computations? Or must true intelligence contain a moral component? Each passing minute, I believe more that this is the case."

-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Cover of A Dreadful Splendor by B.R.  Myers

16. A Dreadful Splendor

By: B.R. Myers

3.87

Format: 405 pages, Paperback

In this spectacularly imaginative and ghoulishly fun Gothic murder mystery brimming with romance, b… read more

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"Кожен дім має свої таємниці."

-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor

"Те, що люди не бачать очима, вони відчувають серцем. Серце бачить все."

-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor

"Можна багато чого дізнатися про мертвих, спостерігаючи за проявами скорботи їхніх рідних."

-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor

"Привиди не можуть завдати вам шкоди. Слід боятися живих людей, тих, що стоять по цей бік скла."

-B.R. Myers, A Dreadful Splendor

Cover of Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj

17. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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Cover of Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave by Joanna Gaines

18. Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave

By: Joanna Gaines

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In her design book, Homebody: A Guide To Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave, Joanna Gaines wal… read more

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  • art
  • reference
  • nonfiction
  • how to
Cover of Visible Mending: Artful Stitchery to Repair and Refresh Your Favorite Things by Jenny Wilding Cardon

19. Visible Mending: Artful Stitchery to Repair and Refresh Your Favorite Things

By: Jenny Wilding Cardon

4.05

Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition

Rip in your jeans? Snag in a sweater? Tear in a tea towel? They all present an opportunity for one-… read more

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Cover of Make Thrift Mend: Stitch, Patch, Darn, Plant-Dye &  Love Your Wardrobe by Katrina Rodabaugh

20. Make Thrift Mend: Stitch, Patch, Darn, Plant-Dye & Love Your Wardrobe

By: Katrina Rodabaugh

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Slow fashion expert Katrina Rodabaugh, bestselling author of Mending Matters, teaches readers how t… read more

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Cover of Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for Your Favorite Things by Noriko Misumi

21. Mending with Love: Creative Repairs for Your Favorite Things

By: Noriko Misumi

3.88

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Mend, rethink, transform, recreate! Mending With Love shows you how to apply embroidery, patchin… read more

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Cover of Joyful Mending: Visible Repairs for the Perfectly Imperfect Things We Love! by Noriko Misumi

22. Joyful Mending: Visible Repairs for the Perfectly Imperfect Things We Love!

By: Noriko Misumi

3.83

Format: 88 pages, paperback

Joyful Mending shows you how to fix old items of clothing, linens and household objects by turning … read more

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Cover of Visible Mending: Repair, Renew, Reuse the Clothes You Love by Arounna Khounnoraj

23. Visible Mending: Repair, Renew, Reuse the Clothes You Love

By: Arounna Khounnoraj

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

We all have that favorite pair of jeans – no matter how baggy or worn they might become. In the mov… read more

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Cover of Heavy Duty Sewing: Making Backpacks and Other Stuff by Anton Sandqvist

24. Heavy Duty Sewing: Making Backpacks and Other Stuff

By: Anton Sandqvist

3.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the founder of iconic outdoors brand Sandqvist, this cool craft book is all about using needle… read more

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  • sewing
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Cover of Ultimate Illustrated Guide to Sewing Clothes: A Complete Course on Making Clothing for Fit and Fashion (Landauer) Installing Zippers, Using Notions, Slopers, Patterns, Tailoring, Alterations, and More by Joi Mahon

25. Ultimate Illustrated Guide to Sewing Clothes: A Complete Course on Making Clothing for Fit and Fashion (Landauer) Installing Zippers, Using Notions, Slopers, Patterns, Tailoring, Alterations, and More

By: Joi Mahon

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Make your own one-of-a-kind clothes! The comprehensive manual on everything you need to know about … read more

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Cover of Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More by Katrina Rodabaugh

26. Mending Matters: Stitch, Patch, and Repair Your Favorite Denim & More

By: Katrina Rodabaugh

3.94

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

This guide explores visible mending techniques in both hands-on projects and thoughtful insight abo… read more

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  • how to
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Cover of How to Sew Sustainably: Recycling, Reusing, and Remaking With Fabric by Wendy  Ward

27. How to Sew Sustainably: Recycling, Reusing, and Remaking With Fabric

By: Wendy Ward

3.58

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A technique-led guide to creating clothes and homeware, using fabric scraps from other projects, di… read more

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Cover of The Natural Home Wheel of the Year: Crafting, Cooking, Decorating & Magic for Every Sabbat by Raechel Henderson

28. The Natural Home Wheel of the Year: Crafting, Cooking, Decorating & Magic for Every Sabbat

By: Raechel Henderson

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Recipes, Crafts & Activities to Inspire Your Creativity and Bring More Meaning to Every Season Welc… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Make and Mend: Sashiko-Inspired Embroidery Projects to Customize and Repair Textiles and Decorate Your Home by Jessica Marquez

29. Make and Mend: Sashiko-Inspired Embroidery Projects to Customize and Repair Textiles and Decorate Your Home

By: Jessica Marquez

4.20

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

An exquisite, full-color guide to sashiko, a simple Japanese stitching technique that uses stunning… read more

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Cover of Make It Yours with Mimi G: A Sewist's Guide to a Custom Wardrobe by Mimi Ford

30. Make It Yours with Mimi G: A Sewist's Guide to a Custom Wardrobe

By: Mimi Ford

4.22

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

From the creator of the award-winning Mimi G. Style, Inc., comes the ultimate collection of basic p… read more

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  • sewing
Cover of A Year of Sewing with Nani Iro: 18 Patterns to Make & Wear Throughout the Seasons (Japanese Dressmakers) by Naomi Ito

31. A Year of Sewing with Nani Iro: 18 Patterns to Make & Wear Throughout the Seasons (Japanese Dressmakers)

By: Naomi Ito

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Learn to sew garments that you’ll love and want to wear all throughout the year! Craft a timeless a… read more

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Subversive Seamster: Transform Thrift Store Threads into Street Couture

Melissa Alvarado , Hope Meng , Melissa Rannels , Matthew Carden

3.33

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Mend It Better: Creative Patching, Darning, and Stitching

Kristin M. Roach

3.70

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Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide

John Cleese

3.88

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Ada Limon

4.34

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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

3.87

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Lisa Ko

3.22

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Tommy Orange

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