12 must-read nonfiction books like Yayoi Kusama by Frances Morris

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Yayoi Kusama

By: Frances Morris

4.26

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Accompanying the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist's work to be staged in the UK, …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Yayoi Kusama by Frances Morris , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

1. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something m… read more

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"Why didn't they ask the Evans?"

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"A woman would know all right about her own husband."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Cover of Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8) by Agatha Christie

2. Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

By: Agatha Christie

4.01

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is vacationing on the Cornish coast when he meets Nick Buckley. Nick is the young an… read more

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"I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue. "

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret."

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

"Never give in! That’s my motto. Don’t think of trouble and trouble won’t come!"

-Agatha Christie, Peril at End House (Hercule Poirot, #8)

Cover of Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection by Dana Miller, Adam D. Weinberg

3. Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection

By: Dana Miller , Adam D. Weinberg

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

An exciting guide to, and celebration of, the Whitney Museum and its outstanding collection of Amer… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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4. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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5. Peggy Guggenheim Collection

By: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Perhaps the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the t… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey

6. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

By: Mason Currey

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Franz Kafka, frustrated with his living quarters and day job, wrote in a letter to Felice Bauer in … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

7. Women Who Run With the Wolves

By: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

4.13

Format: 537 pages, Paperback

Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Dogs are the magicians of the universe."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"Failure is a greater teacher than success"

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"To love a woman, the mate must also love her wildish nature."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

"There is no one a wildish woman loves better than a mate who can be her equal."

-Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

8. The Strange Library

By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more

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9. The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, #1)

By: None

3.78

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking, enchanting new series by debut author Jessica Townsend, about a cursed girl who esc… read more

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10. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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11. Melmoth

By: Sarah Perry

3.43

Format: None pages, Audiobook

For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose com… read more

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"I wonder, when God permitted us to fall, if He knew we'd fall so far."

-Sarah Perry, Melmoth

"So we have free will I suppose." "More's the pity. I always thought it would be rather relaxing to have one's life organised by the Fates."

-Sarah Perry, Melmoth

"This melancholy company is curiously consoling. It is restful to be exempted from the obligation to find, in every spire and pinnacle of the mother of cities, reason to wonder and delight."

-Sarah Perry, Melmoth

"My reader, my dear- you know her, you have been waiting for her: it is the witness, the wandering woman- the punished world's wickedness unfolds! Oh beloved one, my companion- it is I, Melmoth, whose…"

-Sarah Perry, Melmoth

Cover of Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay

12. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

By: Roxane Gay

4.43

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Angry women care. Angry women speak and yell and sob their truths."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"I am a real survivor because I survived, even if some days it feels like I didn't survive at all."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"Anger is the privilege of the truly broken, and yet, I've never met a woman who was broken enough that she allowed herself to be angry."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

"It is more like carrying something really heavy, forever. You do not get to put it down: you have to carry it, and so you carry it the way you need to, however it fits best."

-Roxane Gay, Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

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13. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

By: Sonali Dev

3.68

Format: 481 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family d… read more

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"her bottle cap popping vagina"

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

"Funny how photographs become the form your memories take."

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

"No one is so special that they can’t exert themselves a bit for others."

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

"There was something about Paris that made you feel you could forget who you were."

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

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14. The Creative Act: A Way of Being

By: Rick Rubin

4.04

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."

-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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15. 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
  • nonfiction
Cover of Kusama: The Graphic Novel by Elisa Macellari

16. Kusama: The Graphic Novel

By: Elisa Macellari

3.98

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From rural Japan to international icon – Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • japan
Cover of Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2) by Ngozi Ukazu

17. Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2)

By: Ngozi Ukazu

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and heartbreaking confessions of a figure skater turned collegiate hockey player who'… read more

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"Do you ever think about being with someone but realize it's impossible and then get really sad so you bake a pie instead."

-Ngozi Ukazu, Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2)

"Crushes are stressful. Dating is disappointing. Every relationship, you either break up or get married & then divorced. Pies can't hurt you."

-Ngozi Ukazu, Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey (Check, Please!, #1-2)

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18. Fence, Vol. 2

By: C.S. Pacat

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Combines Issues #5-8. Nicholas Cox is determined to prove himself in the world of competitive fe… read more

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19. Year of the Monkey

By: Patti Smith

3.80

Format: 171 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully reali… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

"Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

"I could feel the gravitational pull of home, which when I'm home too long becomes the gravitational pull of somewhere else."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

"Yet still I keep thinking that something wonderful is about to happen. Maybe tomorrow. A tomorrow following a whole succession of tomorrows."

-Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey

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20. What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book

By: Pandora Sykes

4.08

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Yayoi Kusama by Frances Morris

21. Yayoi Kusama

By: Frances Morris

4.26

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Accompanying the first major retrospective exhibition of the artist's work to be staged in the UK, … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • japan
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22. The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection: Eighth Edition

By: Timothy Potts

3.70

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

This gorgeous new edition of The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collection features over 350 … read more

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  • art
Cover of Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular by Midori Yamamura

23. Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular

By: Midori Yamamura

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Yayoi Kusama is the most famous artist to emerge from Japan in the period following World War II. P… read more

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  • art
Cover of Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love by Yayoi Kusama

24. Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray for Love

By: Yayoi Kusama

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In her most personal book to date, Yayoi Kusama brings us into her private world through poetic rec… read more

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  • art
Cover of Away & Aware: A Field Guide to Mindful Travel by Sara Clemence

25. Away & Aware: A Field Guide to Mindful Travel

By: Sara Clemence

3.50

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

As our daily lives are dominated by devices and an always-connected mentality, more people are usin… read more

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  • nonfiction

11 best-selling art books like Yayoi Kusama by Frances Morris

Transform Your Habits

Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection

Dana Miller , Adam D. Weinberg

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

Mason Currey

5.00

Transform Your Habits

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Rick Rubin

4.04

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8 best-selling fiction books like Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

Transform Your Habits

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Unfinished Portrait

Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Floating Admiral

Agatha Christie , Dorothy L. Sayers , G.K. Chesterton , Freeman Wills Crofts , Clemence Dane , Victor L. Whitechurch , The Detection Club , Anthony Berkeley , Ronald Knox , Edgar Jepson , Henry Wade , Milward Kennedy , John Rhode , G.D.H. Cole , Margaret Cole

3.78

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Giant's Bread

Agatha Christie , Mary Westmacott

3.95

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