8 must-read art books like Pet Portrait Embroidery: Lovingly Stitch Your Dog or Cat; A Modern Guide to Thread Painting by Michelle Staub

Cover of Pet Portrait Embroidery: Lovingly Stitch Your Dog or Cat; A Modern Guide to Thread Painting by Michelle Staub

Pet Portrait Embroidery: Lovingly Stitch Your Dog or Cat; A Modern Guide to Thread Painting

By: Michelle Staub

4.67

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Learn the art of thread painting from Stitching Sabbatical sensation Michelle Staub Cats and dogs s…

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1. It's Always the Husband

By: Michele Campbell

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny. They first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, even thou… read more

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"For my husband, who has never tried to kill me . . . as far as I know."

-Michele Campbell, It's Always the Husband

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2. The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)

By: Megan Whalen Turner

4.38

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

By scheming and theft, the Thief of Eddis has become King of Attolia. Eugenides wanted the queen, n… read more

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"I lied."

-Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)

"Oh gods, stairs."

-Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)

"I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT!"

-Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)

"If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive."

-Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)

Cover of The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2) by Megan Whalen Turner

3. The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)

By: Megan Whalen Turner

4.17

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Revenge When Eugenides, the Thief of Eddis, stole Hamiathes's Gift, the Queen of Attolia lost mo… read more

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"I love stupid plans."

-Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)

"I didn't think about being king,"

-Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)

"Treachery," said the Mede. "Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name."

-Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)

"He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too."

-Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)

Cover of Colour Confidence in Embroidery by Trish Burr

4. Colour Confidence in Embroidery

By: Trish Burr

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

How does color affect embroidery? How can it bring needlework to life? Crafters will uncover the po… read more

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Cover of The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1) by Megan Whalen Turner

5. The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)

By: Megan Whalen Turner

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The king's scholar, the magus, believes he knows the site of an ancient treasure. To attain it for … read more

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6. The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor: Master techniques for painting spectacular sea animals in watercolor

By: Maury Aaseng , Louise de Masi , Hailey E. Herrera , None

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

With helpful tips and easy-to-follow lessons, The Art of Painting Sea Life in Watercolor will teach… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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7. Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

By: Lisa Cron

4.21

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Following on the heels of Lisa Cron's breakout first book, Wired for Story , this writing guide rev… read more

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"We don't turn to story to escape reality. We turn to story to navigate reality."

-Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

"In a nutshell: A story is about how the things that happen affect someone in pursuit of a difficult goal, and how that person changes internally as a result."

-Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

"But the simple fact remains that without the first half of the story, there can be no second half. The first half establishes where the problem came from and who the protagonist is to begin with, so …"

-Lisa Cron, Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

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8. After the Funeral (Hercule Poirot, #29)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister in this classic from … read more

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9. The Wasp Factory

By: Iain Banks

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed B… read more

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10. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

By: Colin Dickey

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history,  Ghostland  takes readers on a road trip through… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping"

-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

"The dead are watching, whether or not we choose to listen to their stories."

-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

"Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit."

-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

"A ghost story’s reduction of a complex moment or the history of building into a series of cliches is reproduced in beautifully staged photos that fetishize the past without truly representing it. “Ru…"

-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places

11. Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #16)

By: Agatha Christie

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everyone blamed Emily's accident on the stairs on her dog, but she was convinced someone was trying… read more

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12. Don't Breathe a Word

By: Jennifer McMahon

4.20

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

On a soft summer night in Vermont, 12-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never … read more

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Cover of Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1) by Rebecca  Thorne

13. Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea Cozy Fantasies, #1)

By: Rebecca Thorne

3.82

Format: 388 pages, ebook

All Reyna and Kianthe want is to open a bookshop that serves tea. Worn wooden floors, plants on eve… read more

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14. Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

3.60

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s repla… read more

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"Wherever we are, we want to be somewhere else."

-Hiron Ennes, Leech

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15. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

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16. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

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"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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17. The Honeys

By: Ryan La Sala

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror nov… read more

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"I will be a ruin to consume."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Contentedness is a party I leave early every time."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"Is everything an act to you?" "Everything is an act to everybody."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

"We came as one and left as many. We came with nothing and left with everything."

-Ryan La Sala, The Honeys

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18. Last Summer on State Street

By: Toya Wolfe

4.22

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Brit Bennett, a striking coming-of-age debut about friendship, c… read more

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19. The Vessel

By: Adam L.G. Nevill

3.73

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

'A watcher may remark that after sleeping for so long, the building appears to have been roused.' … read more

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20. We Do What We Do in the Dark

By: Michelle Hart

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman. Mallory is … read more

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"I think that when you’re miserable, you often do things that extend that misery. There is something pleasing about misery that makes it seem as though time has stopped."

-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

"Sometimes she suspected she had given the best of herself to the woman, as if the fire of her life had burned most intensely when she was eighteen, and she no longer had enough energy to keep rekindl…"

-Michelle Hart, We Do What We Do in the Dark

Cover of A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #1) by Kate Khavari

21. A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #1)

By: Kate Khavari

3.51

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The Lost Apothecary meets Dead Dead Girls in this fast-paced, STEMinist adventure. Debut author … read more

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22. Voices in the Snow (Black Winter, #1)

By: Darcy Coates

3.88

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children’s toys littered across the road… read more

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Cover of Doodle Stitching Embroidery Art: Move Beyond the Pattern with Aimee Ray by Aimee Ray

23. Doodle Stitching Embroidery Art: Move Beyond the Pattern with Aimee Ray

By: Aimee Ray

4.10

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn to use floss like a boss with these twenty original embroidery art projects, from the bestsel… read more

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Cover of Mystical Stitches: Embroidery for Personal Empowerment and Magical Embellishment by Christi Johnson

24. Mystical Stitches: Embroidery for Personal Empowerment and Magical Embellishment

By: Christi Johnson

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Explore personal transformation through the stitching of dreams and intentions. Anything but ordina… read more

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Cover of Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

25. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

By: Sabrina Strings

4.25

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more

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"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"

-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

Cover of Feral Creatures (Hollow Kingdom, #2) by Kira Jane Buxton

26. Feral Creatures (Hollow Kingdom, #2)

By: Kira Jane Buxton

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

MOST ANTICIPATED by Bustle • "Sci-Fi Thriller" recommendation from Buzzfeed  • An Indie Next Pick … read more

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"Oomingmak could not swim."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Feral Creatures (Hollow Kingdom, #2)

"Stories suture up our wounds, stitch us back together. They keep our loved ones alive."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Feral Creatures (Hollow Kingdom, #2)

"A tear slipped down the cheek of my nestling, whose calloused skin could not protect her eggshell heart."

-Kira Jane Buxton, Feral Creatures (Hollow Kingdom, #2)

Cover of Paint with Thread: A step-by-step guide to embroidery through the seasons by Emillie Ferris

27. Paint with Thread: A step-by-step guide to embroidery through the seasons

By: Emillie Ferris

4.59

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Slow down and embroider your way through the changing seasons with the beautiful debut book from em… read more

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Cover of Pet Portrait Embroidery: Lovingly Stitch Your Dog or Cat; A Modern Guide to Thread Painting by Michelle Staub

28. Pet Portrait Embroidery: Lovingly Stitch Your Dog or Cat; A Modern Guide to Thread Painting

By: Michelle Staub

4.67

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Learn the art of thread painting from Stitching Sabbatical sensation Michelle Staub Cats and dogs s… read more

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  • sewing
Cover of Sew It Yourself with DIY Daisy: 20 Pattern-Free Projects (and Infinite Variations) To Make Your Dream Wardrobe by Daisy Braid

29. Sew It Yourself with DIY Daisy: 20 Pattern-Free Projects (and Infinite Variations) To Make Your Dream Wardrobe

By: Daisy Braid

4.04

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

When Daisy Braid started sewing, patterns were out of her budget so she just started DIYing! Sew It… read more

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Cover of The Book of Boro: Techniques and Patterns Inspired by Traditional Japanese Textiles by Susan Briscoe

30. The Book of Boro: Techniques and Patterns Inspired by Traditional Japanese Textiles

By: Susan Briscoe

4.28

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A collection of boro-inspired projects and techniques which celebrates this traditional Japanese te… read more

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Cover of Blackwork Embroidery: Techniques and Projects by Jen Goodwin

31. Blackwork Embroidery: Techniques and Projects

By: Jen Goodwin

4.86

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Blackwork has a rich history that has developed over the years into an iconic and sophisticated sty… read more

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Transform Your Habits

Colour Confidence in Embroidery

Trish Burr

4.36

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3.95

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Lisa Cron

4.21

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Modern Folk Embroidery: 30 Contemporary Projects for Folk Art Inspired Designs

Nancy Nicholson

4.01

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On the Loom: A Modern Weaver's Guide

Maryanne Moodie

4.07

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Embroidered Effects: Projects and Patterns to Inspire Your Stitching

Jenny Hart , Aimée Herring

4.72

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Cristin Morgan

3.90

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