5 must-read art history books like The Van Gogh Sisters by Willem-Jan Verlinden

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The Van Gogh Sisters

By: Willem-Jan Verlinden

3.73

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Many people are familiar with the life and art of Vincent van Gogh, and his extensive correspondenc…

If you liked the art history plot in The Van Gogh Sisters by Willem-Jan Verlinden , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh

4.22

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs … read more

Similar categories in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2) book and Willem-Jan Verlinden's The Van Gogh Sisters

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

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2. The Shoemaker's Wife

By: Adriana Trigiani

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a… read more

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3. 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

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

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

4. The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

By: Edward Dolnick

3.50

Format: None pages,

Tijdens de Duitse bezetting van Nederland heeft Han van Meegeren fortuin gemaakt met het vervalsen … read more

Similar categories in Edward Dolnick's The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century book and Willem-Jan Verlinden's The Van Gogh Sisters

  • art
  • art history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Runaway

By: Alice Munro

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love-between men and women, between friends, betwe… read more

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6. The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery

By: Wendy Moore

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

In an era when bloodletting was considered a cure for everything from colds to smallpox, surgeon Jo… read more

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7. The City of Falling Angels

By: John Berendt

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns after more than a decade to give us a… read more

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8. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

By: Katherine Boo

3.96

Format: None pages,

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dr… read more

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9. Please Look After Mom

By: Shin Kyung-Sook , Chi-Young Kim , None

4.62

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in the author's n… read more

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10. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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11. Playing It Safe (Electra McDonnell, #3)

By: Ashley Weaver

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

As the Blitz continues to ravage London, Ellie McDonnell—formerly a safecracking thief, but current… read more

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12. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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13. Van Gogh: The Life

By: Steven Naifeh

4.18

Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning bio… read more

Similar categories in Steven Naifeh's Van Gogh: The Life book and Willem-Jan Verlinden's The Van Gogh Sisters

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Me pregunto por qué los brillantes puntitos del cielo no nos resultan tan asequibles como los puntos negros que llenan el mapa de Francia. Cogemos un tren para ir de Tarascón a Ruán, pero para llegar…"

-Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh: The Life

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14. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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15. Reykjavík: A Crime Story

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.66

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, bri… read more

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16. The Secret Life of Sunflowers

By: Marta Molnar

4.13

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

A gripping, inspiring novel based on the true story of Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in… read more

Similar categories in Marta Molnar's The Secret Life of Sunflowers book and Willem-Jan Verlinden's The Van Gogh Sisters

  • art
  • art history
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17. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

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18. Gezinsverpakking

By: Bart Chabot

3.26

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

De Chabotten ― vier broers, twee ouders en een hond. Alle zeven verhalen ze in Gezinsverpakking ove… read more

Similar categories in Bart Chabot's Gezinsverpakking book and Willem-Jan Verlinden's The Van Gogh Sisters

  • nonfiction
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19. City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

By: Holly Tucker

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Appointed to conquer the 'crime capital of the world', the first police chief of Paris faces an epi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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20. Wallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who Changed the Monarchy

By: Andrew Morton

3.57

Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition

Wallis in Love brings a fascinating new perspective on the 20th century's most controversial royal … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. Nirwana

By: Tommy Wieringa

4.07

Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition

De geschiedenis van een grootvader bepaalt het heden van een samen vertellen ze het verhaal van ee… read more

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22. Now You See Us

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite and band together to solve a mu… read more

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23. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Mary L. Trump

3.82

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, M… read more

Similar categories in Mary L. Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man book and Willem-Jan Verlinden's The Van Gogh Sisters

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

By: Hannah Pick-Goslar

4.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, auth… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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25. 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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26. Can't I Go Instead

By: Lee Geum-yi

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women's lives and identities are intertwined—through World War II and the Korean War—revealing … read more

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27. The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

By: Michael Wolraich

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck

28. The History of Sound: Stories

By: Ben Shattuck

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more

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"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

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29. Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters

By: Nienke Bakker

4.37

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable selection covering all aspects of Vincent van Gogh’s life and offering valuable new in… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Van Gogh Sisters by Willem-Jan Verlinden

30. The Van Gogh Sisters

By: Willem-Jan Verlinden

3.73

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Many people are familiar with the life and art of Vincent van Gogh, and his extensive correspondenc… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman who Made Vincent Famous by Hans Luijten

31. Jo van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman who Made Vincent Famous

By: Hans Luijten

4.16

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

It is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his w… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction

11 must-read history books like The Van Gogh Sisters by Willem-Jan Verlinden

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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh

4.22

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Edward Dolnick

3.50

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Van Gogh: The Life

Steven Naifeh

4.18

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City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

Holly Tucker

3.60

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The Heart in Winter

Kevin Barry

4.02

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Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

3.79

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Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

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Alan Murrin

3.99

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