5 must-read history books like Yves Saint Laurent: The Complete Haute Couture Collections 1962-2002 by Suzy Menkes

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Yves Saint Laurent: The Complete Haute Couture Collections 1962-2002

By: Suzy Menkes

4.66

Format: 632 pages, Hardcover

A spectacular visual journey through 40 years of haute couture from one of the best-known and most …

If you liked the history plot in Yves Saint Laurent: The Complete Haute Couture Collections 1962-2002 by Suzy Menkes , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Insatiable (Insatiable, #1) by Meg Cabot

1. Insatiable (Insatiable, #1)

By: Meg Cabot

3.43

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper. But her bosses are making her write about t… read more

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"This,"

-Meg Cabot, Insatiable (Insatiable, #1)

"I did,"

-Meg Cabot, Insatiable (Insatiable, #1)

"I like 'em big. And stupid. Don't tell my husband."

-Meg Cabot, Insatiable (Insatiable, #1)

"It's simple, really," Alaric Wulf said. " Lucien Antonescu is the prince of darkness." Jon nodded. "Yeah," he said. "We know. He's got a castle and stuff."

-Meg Cabot, Insatiable (Insatiable, #1)

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2. Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

By: Michael Tanner , Patrick Dennis , Edward Everett Tanner III , Paul Rudnick

4.04

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

Wildly successful when it was first published in 1955, Patrick Dennis' Auntie Mame sold over two mi… read more

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"Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death." Auntie Mame"

-Michael Tanner, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

"Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. "

-Michael Tanner, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

"Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir--or Sewer--Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Ton…"

-Michael Tanner, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

"She was built along the lines of a General Electric refrigerator and looked like a cross between Caligula and a cockatoo. Mother Burnside had beady little eyes, an imperious beak of a nose, sallow sk…"

-Michael Tanner, Auntie Mame: An Irreverent Escapade (Auntie Mame, #1)

Cover of A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Pankaj Mishra, Oliver Stallybrass

3. A Passage to India

By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more

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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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4. Claudia and Mean Janine: A Graphic Novel (The Baby-Sitters Club Graphic Novels #4)

By: Ann M. Martin , Raina Telgemeier

4.37

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Claudia and her sister, Janine, may as well be from two different planets. Claudia, who pays more a… read more

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5. Sex and Rage

By: Eve Babitz

3.87

Format: 260 pages,

The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, origin… read more

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6. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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7. Spin (Spin, #1)

By: Robert Charles Wilson

3.66

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the… read more

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8. Black Swans

By: Eve Babitz

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more

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9. The Arrival

By: Shaun Tan

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more

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10. Blue Nights

By: Joan Didion

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly… read more

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11. Saving Francesca

By: Melina Marchetta

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Paperback

There is an alternate cover edition for this ISBN13 . Francesca is stuck at St. Sebastian's, a boy… read more

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12. The Ladies' Paradise (Les Rougon-Macquart, #11)

By: Émile Zola , Brian Nelson

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

The Ladies Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the rise of the modern department store in late… read more

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13. The Little Book of Chanel

By: Emma Baxter-Wright

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Elegant and stunningly illustrated, this monograph chronicles the life of one of history's most inf… read more

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14. The Uncommon Reader

By: Alan Bennett

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more

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"Книгите подпалват въображението."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

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15. 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
  • history
  • 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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16. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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17. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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  • art
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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18. Barbie: The World Tour

By: Margot Robbie

4.62

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

For the press tour following the record-breaking release of Greta Gerwig’s award-winning, acclaimed… read more

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  • fashion
  • art
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Love, friendship, networking - these are all critical connections and the foundation of a healthy, happy life."

-Margot Robbie, Barbie: The World Tour

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19. The Breakup Tour

By: Emily Wibberley

3.16

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A rising-star musician has a second chance at love with an old flame she remembers all too well in … read more

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20. Rodham

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.83

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel that imagines a d… read more

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"There are two kinds of marriages: the ones where you're privy to how messy they are, and the ones where you're not."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham

"I've learned over many decades that people are likeliest to declare their respect when their behavior suggests the opposite."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham

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21. Death in Her Hands

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.24

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more

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"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

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22. Reign (American Royals, #4)

By: Katharine McGee

3.91

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

A queen's life hangs in the balance, and her siblings’ decisions—about what to do, and most of all,… read more

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23. The Daydreams

By: Laura Hankin

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and th… read more

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"There are certain feelings you don’t believe are real until you feel them yourself. Take anger so strong that you could kill someone. You cannot wrap your head around how a person could get to that p…"

-Laura Hankin, The Daydreams

Cover of The Little Book of Hermès: The Story of the Iconic Fashion House (Little Books of Fashion, 14) by Karen Homer

24. The Little Book of Hermès: The Story of the Iconic Fashion House (Little Books of Fashion, 14)

By: Karen Homer

4.20

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The iconic bags, the instantly recognizable packaging, the celebrity fans – Hèrmes is the last word… read more

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  • fashion
  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dior Catwalk: The Complete Collections by FURY ALEXANDER/SABAT

25. Dior Catwalk: The Complete Collections

By: FURY ALEXANDER/SABAT

4.50

Format: 632 pages, Hardcover

This book gathers together, for the first time, every Dior haute couture collection, including also… read more

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  • fashion
  • art
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Chanel Catwalk: The Complete Karl Lagerfeld Collections

By: Patrick Mauriès

4.43

Format: 632 pages, Hardcover

Chanel. Catwalk - Polish language book. Ksiazka w Polskiej wersji jezykowej. read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Yves Saint Laurent: The Complete Haute Couture Collections 1962-2002 by Suzy Menkes

27. Yves Saint Laurent: The Complete Haute Couture Collections 1962-2002

By: Suzy Menkes

4.66

Format: 632 pages, Hardcover

A spectacular visual journey through 40 years of haute couture from one of the best-known and most … read more

Similar categories in Suzy Menkes's Yves Saint Laurent: The Complete Haute Couture Collections 1962-2002 book and Suzy Menkes's Yves Saint Laurent: The Complete Haute Couture Collections 1962-2002

  • fashion
  • art
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Instant moda

By: Andrea Batilla

3.85

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

Tutti nuotiamo nel grande mare della moda, anche se a volte non ce ne rendiamo conto. Ecco perché, … read more

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  • fashion
  • nonfiction
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29. Masters of fashion

By: Maria Luisa Tagariello

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Una carrellata di ritratti dei più celebri "maestri della passerella", in un viaggio fra i mostri s… read more

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  • fashion

9 Best nonfiction books like Yves Saint Laurent: The Complete Haute Couture Collections 1962-2002 by Suzy Menkes

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Transform Your Habits

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Patrick Bringley

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Barbie: The World Tour

Margot Robbie

4.62

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Vogue On: Coco Chanel

Bronwyn Cosgrave

1.50

Transform Your Habits

Things I Don't Want to Know

Deborah Levy

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Coco Chanel: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon

Megan Hess

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Real Estate (Living Autobiography #3)

Deborah Levy

4.29

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