9 must-read art books like diane arbus: in the beginning by Diane Arbus

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diane arbus: in the beginning

By: Diane Arbus

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented overview of the early work of a preeminent 20th-century artistDiane Arbus (1923–19…

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Cover of Women by Susan Sontag, Annie Leibovitz

1. Women

By: Susan Sontag , Annie Leibovitz

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spect… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • art and photography
Cover of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By: Junot Díaz

3.89

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more

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"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"It's never the changes we want that change everything."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."

-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Cover of The Lover by Marguerite Duras, Barbara Bray, Maxine Hong Kingston

3. The Lover

By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston

3.72

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more

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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."

-Marguerite Duras, The Lover

Cover of Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow

4. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

By: Leonard Mlodinow

3.69

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walkand coauthor of The Grand Design(wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Americans

By: Jack Kerouac , Robert Frank

4.10

Format: 668 pages,

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • art and photography
Cover of A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

6. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Tête à Tête by Henri Cartier-Bresson, E.H. Gombrich

7. Tête à Tête

By: Henri Cartier-Bresson , E.H. Gombrich

3.50

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Over the last half century Henri Cartier-Bresson has photographed some of the most famous icons of … read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction

8. Nightfall

By: Isaac Asimov , Robert Silverberg

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

Imagine living on a planet with six suns that never experiences Darkness. Imagine never having seen… read more

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9. Memories, Dreams, Reflections

By: C.G. Jung , Richard Winston , Clara Winston , Aniela Jaffé

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his li… read more

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10. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more

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11. Sculpting in Time

By: Andrei Tarkovsky , Kitty Hunter-Blair

4.51

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Andrey Tarkovsky, the genius of modern Russian cinema--hailed by Ingmar Bergman as "the most import… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"The aim of art is to prepare a person for death"

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality."

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object"

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

"Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field."

-Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

12. The Snowy Day

By: Ezra Jack Keats

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal! No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the … read more

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Cover of Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

13. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more

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  • nonfiction
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."

-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

14. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Cover of Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld

15. Revenge of the Librarians

By: Tom Gauld

3.94

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more

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  • art
Cover of Mimosa: A Graphic Novel by Archie Bongiovanni

16. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

By: Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more

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Cover of A Book of Days by Patti Smith

17. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • art and photography
Cover of Frankenstein by Junji Ito

18. Frankenstein

By: Junji Ito

4.01

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the a… read more

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19. The Wanderer

By: Peter van den Ende

4.29

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Without a word, van den Ende presents one little paper boat's journey across the ocean, past reefs … read more

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  • art
Cover of Tokyo Ueno Station by Yū Miri

20. Tokyo Ueno Station

By: Yū Miri

3.47

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincid… read more

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"There’s that sound again."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I was always tired. There was never a time I was not tired. Not when life had its claws in me, and not when I escaped from it. I did not live with intent, I only lived. But that’s all over now."

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

"I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next, and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But life is nothing like a story in a…"

-Yū Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

Cover of diane arbus: in the beginning by Diane Arbus

21. diane arbus: in the beginning

By: Diane Arbus

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented overview of the early work of a preeminent 20th-century artistDiane Arbus (1923–19… read more

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  • art
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  • art and photography

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Susan Sontag , Annie Leibovitz

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Leonard Mlodinow

3.69

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4.10

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4.03

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4.30

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4.26

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