8 Best biography books like The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922 - 1968 by William Feaver

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The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922 - 1968

By: William Feaver

3.75

Format: 704 pages, Kindle Edition

Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and c…

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Cover of The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6) by Marcel Proust, None, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright

1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright

4.39

Format: 957 pages, Paperback

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more

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"...every social class has its own pathology..."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."

-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)

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2. Easily Distracted

By: Steve Coogan

3.52

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children. From an ea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter by Geordie Greig

3. Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter

By: Geordie Greig

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An insider's account―the first of its kind―of the thoroughly unconventional life of one of the twen… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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4. Possession

By: A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

Format: 555 pages, Paperback

Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more

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"To a dusty shelf we aspire."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

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5. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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6. Amsterdam

By: Ian McEwan

4.06

Format: 663 pages, Paperback

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay th… read more

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7. The Testament of Mary

By: Colm Tóibín

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Toibin's portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary old… read more

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8. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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9. Red Love: The Story of an East German Family

By: Shaun Whiteside , Maxim Leo

4.18

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Now, married with two children and the Wall a distant memory, Maxim decides to find the answers to … read more

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10. The Dharma Bums

By: Jack Kerouac

4.71

Format: None pages,

Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam… read more

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11. The Sense of an Ending

By: Julian Barnes

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single sitting, with stunning psychological and … read more

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12. Down and Out in Paris and London

By: George Orwell

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more

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13. The Romanovs: 1613-1918

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

3.17

Format: None pages,

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surfac… read more

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14. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

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"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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15. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

16. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth (Compelling Cold War History) by Iain MacGregor

17. Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth (Compelling Cold War History)

By: Iain MacGregor

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A “constantly captivating…well-researched and often moving” ( The Wall Street Journal ) history of … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure by Monisha Rajesh

18. Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure

By: Monisha Rajesh

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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19. The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922 - 1968

By: William Feaver

3.75

Format: 704 pages, Kindle Edition

Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and c… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Self-Portrait by Celia Paul

20. Self-Portrait

By: Celia Paul

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

I’m not a portrait painter. If I’m anything, I have always been an autobiographer. Self-Portrait… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Decidí usar palabras en vez de cuadros porque las palabras son más directas para comunicarnos. El lenguaje hermético de la pintura guarda necesariamente su secreto, y su poder permanece en el misteri…"

-Celia Paul, Self-Portrait

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21. Francis Bacon: Revelations

By: Mark Stevens

4.44

Format: 880 pages, Hardcover

Francis Bacon created an indelible image of mankind in modern times, and played an outsized role in… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography

9 Best nonfiction books like The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922 - 1968 by William Feaver

Transform Your Habits

Easily Distracted

Steve Coogan

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter

Geordie Greig

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

Edward Chisholm

4.05

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

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10 Top politics books like Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth (Compelling Cold War History) by Iain MacGregor

Transform Your Habits

The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall-and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill

Greg Mitchell

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Katja Hoyer

4.23

Transform Your Habits

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

4.38

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