7 must-read art books like Warhol After Warhol: Secrets, Lies, and Corruption in the Art World by Richard Dorment

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Warhol After Warhol: Secrets, Lies, and Corruption in the Art World

By: Richard Dorment

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mysti…

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1. Under the Harrow

By: Flynn Berry

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find h… read more

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2. Shogun, Part 2

By: James Clavell

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

"...Shogun beshe nai-visshiia rang, koito niakoi sm'rten mozheshe da dostigne v Iaponiia. Shogun oz… read more

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3. Love Junkie

By: Robert Plunket

4.50

Format: None pages,

The critically acclaimed author of the cult favorite My Search for Warren Harding now writes a hila… read more

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4. Strange Fruit

By: Lillian E. Smith

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

When it was first published in 1944, this novel sparked immediate controversy and became a huge bes… read more

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5. 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

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6. Iris

By: Fiona Kelly McGregor

3.53

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Who is Iris Webber? A thief, a fighter, a wife, a lover. A scammer, a schemer, a friend. A… read more

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"Thought doesn't necessarily calm a person, nor does confinement calm thought."

-Fiona Kelly McGregor, Iris

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7. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

By: Tom Holland

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. The Mysteries

By: Bill Watterson

3.76

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more

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  • art
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9. The Motion of the Body Through Space

By: Lionel Shriver

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages bett… read more

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"She herself was only sixty, though hers was the first generation to append "only" to such a sobering milestone."

-Lionel Shriver, The Motion of the Body Through Space

"I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they are lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment, it's dull and hard as in effortful but not as in d…"

-Lionel Shriver, The Motion of the Body Through Space

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10. Birnam Wood

By: Eleanor Catton

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more

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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

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11. This Plague of Souls

By: Mike McCormack

3.09

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, nam… read more

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12. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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13. The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear

By: Nat Segaloff

3.74

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Since 1973, The Exorcist and its progeny have scared and inspired half a century of filmgoers. Now,… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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15. Mrs Death Misses Death

By: Salena Godden

3.51

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel. Mrs Death… read more

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"Spoiler Alert: We all die in the end"

-Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

"You live forever in your words, in hearts and memories, in your creations and connections. The seeds you sow, the child you raise, the song you sing, the story you write with your time here. You are …"

-Salena Godden, Mrs Death Misses Death

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16. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

By: Brad Gooch

4.39

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

“It’s all  the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for … read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
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17. Karma: My Autobiography

By: Boy George

3.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

By: Will Cockrell

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more

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19. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire

By: Emma Southon

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum comes a wildly entertai… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

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21. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

By: Scott J. Shapiro

3.96

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more

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"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"

-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

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22. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

By: Orlando Whitfield

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

DECEPTION IS A FINE ART. When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students d… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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24. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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25. Where You End

By: Abbott Kahler

3.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling nonfiction author Abbott Kahler comes a spellbinding fiction debut inspired by tru… read more

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"I had time to form one last thought before my mind emptied itself of all things: She will know how to fix me. "

-Abbott Kahler, Where You End

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26. You Are What You Watch

By: Walter Hickey

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Data expert Walter Hickey explains the power of entertainment to change our biology, our beliefs, h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Beholders

By: Hester Musson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

SOME HOUSES ARE HAUNTED BY THE LIVING June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of th… read more

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28. The Prospects

By: K.T. Hoffman

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The pressure cooker of minor league baseball leads to major chemistry in this exhilarating, sexy, a… read more

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"Glasses on or off?" Luis asks. "Off." Gene is nearsighted anyway, and he doesn't plan to let Luis get far enough away that he would need them."

-K.T. Hoffman, The Prospects

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29. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

By: Daniel Stone

3.93

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the gl… read more

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"What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves."

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"In Naples, where pizza was invented, Fairchild tasted his first cheesy flatbread, a punishing food for first-timers, whose mouths could be scorched with hot, lavalike cheese. He was enchanted by the …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"The grape, of a variety known as sultanina, would ultimately grow best in the wet and temperate soil of California. America's region most climatically similar to the Mediterranean. Fairchild's sample…"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

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30. Warhol After Warhol: Secrets, Lies, and Corruption in the Art World

By: Richard Dorment

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mysti… read more

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  • art history
  • nonfiction
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31. How to Collect Art

By: Magnus Resch

4.13

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

You must read this book before buying any artwork – written by the world’s leading art-market econo… read more

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Barbra Streisand

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