7 best-selling memoir books like The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris by Marc Petitjean

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The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris

By: Marc Petitjean

3.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibran…

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1. Duke of My Heart (Season for Scandal, #1)

By: Kelly Bowen

3.88

Format: 316 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Scandal can be handled... Captain Maximus Harcourt, the unconventional tenth Duke of Alderidge, … read more

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2. Paris Red

By: Maureen Gibbon

3.24

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Paris, 1862. A young girl in a threadbare dress and green boots, hungry for experience, meets the m… read more

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  • art
  • france
Cover of The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles by Martin Gayford

3. The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles

By: Martin Gayford

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Automne 1888. Retranchés dans une petite maison jaune à Arles, Paul Gauguin et Vincent Van Gogh pas… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
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4. Monticello: A Daughter and Her Father

By: Sally Cabot Gunning

4.67

Format: 112 pages, ebook

From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's Warcomes a captivating work of literary histori… read more

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5. Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women

By: Jean Shinoda Bolen

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

In her latest book, Crones Don't Whine, Jean Shinoda Bolen's playful sense of humour and keen insig… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover

6. Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film

By: Carol J. Clover

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Do the pleasures of horror movies really begin and end in sadism? So the public discussion of film … read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

By: Anne Helen Petersen

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture writer Anne Helen Petersen comes an accessible, a… read more

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  • nonfiction

8. The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

By: Lewis Buzbee

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Buzbee, a former bookseller and sales representative, celebrates th… read more

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9. Oreo

By: Harryette Mullen , Fran Ross

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of a few works of satire written by African American women, Oreois an uproariously funny novel … read more

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10. Mrs. Poe

By: Lynn Cullen

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A vivid and compelling novel about a woman who becomes entangled in an affair with Edgar Allan Poe-… read more

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11. Life with Picasso

By: Françoise Gilot

4.09

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she … read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
"...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude."

-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

"And you, you’re an angel,’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of my subjects. I think I’ll brand you."

-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

"My grandmother's death had given me a heightened sense of individual solitude, of each one of us walking towards his own death, with no one able to help us or hold us back."

-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

"As I was growing up, whenever anything frightened me in any degree, it fascinated me at the same time. I felt the need of going too far simply to prove to myself that I was capable of it."

-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso

12. As Meninas

By: Lygia Fagundes Telles

3.87

Format: 268 pages,

Nao foram muitos os escritores que, no auge da ditadura militar no Brasil, abordaram em seus textos… read more

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13. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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14. The Beautiful People

By: Michelle Gable

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set, a novel about a failed debutante whose new job as assistan… read more

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15. Mermaid Scales and the Town of Sand

By: Yoko Komori

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Everyone besides Tokiko denies the existence of merpeople, and yet the town holds a secret annual f… read more

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16. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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17. Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver

4.52

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

A celebration of the beloved, award-winning poet Mary Oliver, narrated by actress and activist Soph… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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18. Picasso's Lovers

By: Jeanne Mackin

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tangled and vividly intimate portrait of the women caught in Picasso’s charismatic orbit through … read more

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  • art
  • france
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19. The World According to Joan Didion

By: Evelyn McDonnell

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential w… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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20. Can't We Be Friends

By: Denny S. Bryce

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a … read more

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21. Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

By: Julia Sweig

3.96

Format: 533 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial portrait of Lady Bird Johnson, and a major reevaluation of the profound yet underappr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
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22. Rangikura

By: Tayi Tibble

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females by Kate  Hodges

23. Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females

By: Kate Hodges

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Warriors, Witches, Women is a guide to awe-inspiring mythical female creatures; from feminist fairi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception by Adriana Valerio

24. Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

By: Adriana Valerio

3.76

Format: 128 pages, ebook

From one of Italy's most renowned historians of religion, an exciting new portrait of one of Christ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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25. The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris

By: Marc Petitjean

3.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibran… read more

Similar categories in Marc Petitjean's The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris book and Marc Petitjean's The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris

  • lesbian
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis

26. What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly

By: Arianna Davis

3.30

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary guide to life, love, and happiness inspired by the extraordinary artist Frida Kahlo.… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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27. O amor e sua fome

By: Lorena Portela

4.13

Format: 150 pages, Kindle Edition

"Em qualquer cidadezinha, enterro é evento pra ir todo mundo, cachorro, pessoas e também crianças, … read more

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28. Group Living and Other Recipes: A Memoir

By: Lola Milholland

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spirited and timely exploration of group living that encourages readers to reconsider the meaning… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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29. Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

By: Emily Rapp Black

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabil… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"There was such powerlessness in difference, which created, it seemed, not just a barrier to success but also a barrier to love. Who could stand it?"

-Emily Rapp Black, Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

Cover of Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist by Celia Stahr

30. Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

By: Celia Stahr

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the a… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction

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Martin Gayford

3.97

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Françoise Gilot

4.09

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The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

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Natalie Haynes

4.05

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Fern Haught

3.62

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Itaru Kinoshita

4.30

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Wendy Xu

4.03

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Vera Brosgol

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