8 must-read art books like Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer by Gregory Heisler

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Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer

By: Gregory Heisler

4.62

Format: 224 pages, ebook

In this first-ever showcase of his work, Gregory Heisler, one of professional photography's most re…

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Cover of The Photographer's Eye by Walker Evans, John Szarkowski, Paul Strand, William Klein, Lee Friedlander

1. The Photographer's Eye

By: Walker Evans , John Szarkowski , Paul Strand , William Klein , Lee Friedlander

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduc… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • art and photography
"All photographs are time exposures, of shorter or longer duration, and each describes a discrete parcel of time."

-Walker Evans, The Photographer's Eye

"There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he can, calls her Juliet, and puts a nice verse Shakespeare underneath,…"

-Walker Evans, The Photographer's Eye

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2. How To Get Rich

By: Felix Dennis

4.17

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

'Making money is a knack, a knack that can be acquired. And if someone like me can become rich, the… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is absolutely nothing more likely to dampen the prospects of becoming rich than a nice, fat, regular salary check."

-Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

"Talent is indispensable, although it is 'always' replaceable. Just remember the simple rules concerning talent: Identify It, Hire It, Nurture It, Reward It, Protect It. And when the time comes, Fire …"

-Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

"When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and cont…"

-Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

"Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good sa…"

-Felix Dennis, How To Get Rich

Cover of Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen

3. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

4. Long Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky

5. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Art of the Photograph: Essential Habits for Stronger Compositions by Art Wolfe

6. The Art of the Photograph: Essential Habits for Stronger Compositions

By: Art Wolfe

4.27

Format: 24 pages, ebook

Learn to take better pictures in this step-by-step, how-tophotography guide filled with tips on lig… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

7. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

By: Peter Watts

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more

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"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"

-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)

Cover of Pyramids (Discworld, #7) by Terry Pratchett

8. Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.92

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to h… read more

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"Seven thousand years is just one day at a time"

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"The king nodded. “What are the priests doing about this?"

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something."

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

"Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped."

-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)

9. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

By: Ann Leckie

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more

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10. Eye of the Needle

By: Ken Follett

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthle… read more

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11. The Last Samurai

By: Helen DeWitt

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Helen DeWitt's extraordinary debut, The Last Samurai, centers on the relationship between Sibylla, … read more

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12. Study Bible: NIV

By: Anonymous

4.67

Format: 107 pages,

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Cover of The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1) by Terry Pratchett

13. The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.29

Format: 375 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here. "Another world is… read more

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"Crivens!"

-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

"That'll do"

-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

"Witches are naturally nosy,"

-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

"(...) or there will be a reckoning!"

-Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1)

14. William Eggleston's Guide

By: John Szarkowski , William Eggleston

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

William Eggleston's Guidewas the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Muse… read more

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15. A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul

By: Leo Tolstoy , Peter Sekirin

3.00

Format: 220 pages, Unknown Binding

This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most i… read more

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Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

16. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Cover of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono

17. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

By: Bono

4.20

Format: 564 pages, Hardcover

Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."

-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

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18. Nothing Personal

By: James Baldwin

4.64

Format: 83 pages, Hardcover

James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his … read more

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  • photography
  • nonfiction
"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light."

-James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

"If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but r…"

-James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love--whether we call it friendship or family or romance--is the work of mirroring each other's light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in…"

-James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

"If a society permits one portion of its citizenry to be menaced or destroyed, then, very soon, no one in that society is safe. The forces thus released in the people can never be held in check, but r…"

-James Baldwin, Nothing Personal

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19. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

Cover of Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier by Kevin Kelly

20. Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

By: Kevin Kelly

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“I love aphorisms, proverbs, and Secrets of Adulthood . . . Excellent Advice for Living includes wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The end is almost always the beginning of something better."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"When you keep people waiting they begin to think of all your flaws."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"The very best thing you can do for your kids is to love your spouse."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"Don’t treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

21. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1) by Nathan W. Pyle

22. Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

By: Nathan W. Pyle

4.33

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and pr… read more

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  • art
"Where is your pain? In my emotions. I don't understand. No one ever does."

-Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

Cover of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

23. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.27

Format: 172 pages, ebook

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"

-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Cover of How To Make The Best Coffee At Home by James Hoffmann

24. How To Make The Best Coffee At Home

By: James Hoffmann

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

World-leading coffee expert and best-selling author of The World Atlas of Coffee shows you how to m… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars by Meghan Daum

25. The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

By: Meghan Daum

3.54

Format: 256 pages, ebook

“[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary.” —Vogue “Personal, con… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The place I took off from three years ago is not the place where I've landed. And though I'm still not sure what to make of this terrain, I can tell you that the intellectual uncertainty into which i…"

-Meghan Daum, The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

Cover of The Photography Storytelling Workshop: A five-step guide to creating unforgettable photographs by Finn  Beales

26. The Photography Storytelling Workshop: A five-step guide to creating unforgettable photographs

By: Finn Beales

4.26

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

If you want to make it beyond Instagram as a photographer you have to give a solid listen to the id… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza

27. Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

By: Pete Souza

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a p… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer by Gregory Heisler

28. Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer

By: Gregory Heisler

4.62

Format: 224 pages, ebook

In this first-ever showcase of his work, Gregory Heisler, one of professional photography's most re… read more

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  • photography
  • nonfiction
  • art and photography
Cover of Authentic Portraits: Searching for Soul, Significance, and Depth by Chris Orwig

29. Authentic Portraits: Searching for Soul, Significance, and Depth

By: Chris Orwig

4.42

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The most successful portraits take us well beyond the surface of how someone looks and show us the … read more

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  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Other Americas by Sebastião Salgado

30. Other Americas

By: Sebastião Salgado

4.41

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Photographs show the people of Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Guatemala, including wed… read more

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  • art
  • photography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook: Artisanal Baking from Around the World by Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez

31. The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook: Artisanal Baking from Around the World

By: Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez

4.17

Format: 515 pages, Kindle Edition

Yahoo Food's Cookbook of the YearAuthentic multiethnic breads from the New York City bakery with a … read more

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  • nonfiction

19 Top nonfiction books like Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits: Stories and Techniques from a Photographer's Photographer by Gregory Heisler

Transform Your Habits

The Photographer's Eye

Walker Evans , John Szarkowski , Paul Strand , William Klein , Lee Friedlander

4.09

Transform Your Habits

How To Get Rich

Felix Dennis

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Annie Jacobsen

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

3.78

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The Odessa File

Frederick Forsyth

4.14

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Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)

Martin Cruz Smith

3.13

Transform Your Habits

The Firm

John Grisham , Robin Waterfield

4.06

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Ken Follett

4.21

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