5 Best biography books like Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism by Anka Muhlstein

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Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism

By: Anka Muhlstein

4.11

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A Best Book of 2023 by The New YorkerFrom the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac’s Omelette,…

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1. The Piano Tuner

By: Daniel Mason

3.77

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the Br… read more

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2. Austerlitz

By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more

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3. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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4. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

By: Norman Maclean

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

From its first magnificent sentence, "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and f… read more

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5. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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6. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. Murder at la Villette (Aimée Leduc Investigations, #21)

By: Cara Black

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc has been framed for the murder of her daughter’s father—n… read more

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8. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • art
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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10. The London Bookshop Affair

By: Louise Fein

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A new historical drama from Daughter of the Reich bestselling author Louise Fein, about a London bo… read more

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11. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

By: Anna Gazmarian

3.63

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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12. My Heart

By: Corinna Luyken

4.26

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

My heart is a window. My heart is a slide. My heart can be closed...or opened up wide. Some days… read more

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13. Where They Lie

By: Claire Coughlan

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An immersive, literary thriller about an ambitious young female journalist whose investigation of a… read more

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14. The Lioness of Boston

By: Emily Franklin

3.72

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an… read more

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  • art
"Don't spoil a good story by telling the truth."

-Emily Franklin, The Lioness of Boston

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15. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

By: Natalie Dykstra

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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17. Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order

By: Yuan Yang

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China told through the lives of four ordinary women stri… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. A Refiner’s Fire (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, #33)

By: Donna Leon

4.05

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

In the thirty-third installment of Donna Leon’s magnificent series, Commissario Guido Brunetti conf… read more

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19. Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism

By: Anka Muhlstein

4.11

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A Best Book of 2023 by The New YorkerFrom the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac’s Omelette,… read more

Similar categories in Anka Muhlstein's Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism book and Anka Muhlstein's Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution

By: Anne Higonnet

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The forgotten story of how three women dazzled the world with their radical style and transformed t… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

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