8 best-selling biography books like Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation by Mindy Johnson

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Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation

By: Mindy Johnson

4.44

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the earliest origins of animated imagery, the colorful link between paper and screen was creat…

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1. Walt Disney: An American Original

By: Walt Disney Company , Bob Thomas

4.32

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Walt Disney is an American hero--the creator of Mickey Mouse, and a man who changed the face of Ame… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. The Haunting of Gillespie House

By: Darcy Coates

3.69

Format: 192 pages,

Elle can't believe her luck; she's spending a month house-sitting the beautiful Gillespie property.… read more

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3. Nutcracker

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann , Ralph Manheim , Maurice Sendak

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, co… read more

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4. The Nine Old Men: Lessons, Techniques, and Inspiration from Disney's Great Animators

By: Andreas Deja

3.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Learn from the men who changed animation forever Walt Disney's team of core animators, who he affec… read more

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5. Reflection

By: Elizabeth Lim

3.99

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld? When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu… read more

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"only the brave may enter, but only the worthy may leave."

-Elizabeth Lim, Reflection

"Mulan stared at the steaming liquid, watching the dried leaves swirl to the bottom. How beautiful the tea looked, too- she'd never seen tea so colorful. Reds and pinks swirled in with amber and blue-…"

-Elizabeth Lim, Reflection

"Soy Fa Mulán, una chica que sacrificaría su vida por su familia y por China. Soy una chica que viajó al inframundo para salvar a su amigo agonizante. Soy una chica que ha peleado batalla tras batalla…"

-Elizabeth Lim, Reflection

"We must be in the heart of Diyu." "The heart of Diyu is a garden?" Mulan spoke up. As far as she could see were flowers and trees, all so lush and beautiful Mulan could almost forget she was in the U…"

-Elizabeth Lim, Reflection

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6. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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7. Batman: One Bad Day - The Riddler #1

By: Tom King

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

The Most Dangerous Game of Wits Batman and Riddler have ever played...The Riddler is one of Batman'… read more

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8. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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9. Star Wars: The Living Force

By: John Jackson Miller

3.81

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In the year before The Phantom Menace, Yoda, Mace Windu, and the entire Jedi Council confront a gal… read more

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10. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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11. Queen's Peril (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #0)

By: E.K. Johnston

3.94

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

When fourteen-year-old Padmé Naberrie wins the election for Queen of Naboo, she adopts the name Ami… read more

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"And yet you are always second best,"

-E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #0)

"The girl in the white dress was going to be Queen, and she was ready."

-E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #0)

"On a dusty world with two bright suns, a little boy looked up from his work and saw an angel."

-E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril (Star Wars: The Padmé Trilogy, #0)

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12. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • film
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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13. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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14. The Littlest Library

By: Poppy Alexander

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the lit… read more

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"There was a book to cure ever ill and solve every problem that was what Mimi had always thought. It was like a tiny sanctuary providing a balm for all of life’s challenges."

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

"Manga is a highly respected form of storytelling. Calling it comics doesn’t do it justice. I’ll sort her out with some other graphic novels, too. It’s all stories. It all counts."

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

"There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. What…"

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

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15. From Below

By: Darcy Coates

4.02

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

No light. No air. No escape. Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits... … read more

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"The human mind couldn't cope with looking at nothing for very long and, in sufficient darkness, quickly began to create its own images of what it thought belonged there."

-Darcy Coates, From Below

"Humans were never intended to reach the depths they were seeking. The only way they had was through a century of trial and error, of pushing the limits, of countless deaths in search of a way down. C…"

-Darcy Coates, From Below

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16. Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1)

By: Juno Dawson

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches;… read more

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17. Fate Be Changed

By: Farrah Rochon

4.20

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

What if the witch gave Merida a different spell? This New York Times best-selling series twists Dis… read more

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"She detested all this marriage talk. She would never understand why so many lasses wished to tie themselves down before they had a chance to live. "

-Farrah Rochon, Fate Be Changed

"My dad thinks a young lass should be taught the same skills as a lad." "Your dad sounds like a fine gentleman. I think I would like him." "I am counting on it," she said."

-Farrah Rochon, Fate Be Changed

"She had to admit that her mother was right; the pheasant, peas, stewed kale, and oatcakes were best enjoyed hot. She shoveled the food into her mouth, suddenly realizing how ravenous she was after an…"

-Farrah Rochon, Fate Be Changed

"Her heart thudded in time with the horse's hooves pounding into the ground. The trees that lined either side of the glen looked like green water rushing alongside her. The taste of sweet Scots pine s…"

-Farrah Rochon, Fate Be Changed

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18. The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering

By: Leslie Iwerks

4.63

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

The highly acclaimed and rated Disney+ documentary series, The Imagineering Story, becomes a book t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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19. The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

By: Nathalia Holt

4.18

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

In The Queens of Animation, author Nathalia Holt recounts the stories of a group of women who have … read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Sadness transforms comedy, tingeing its edges with emotion and thus delivering fewer laughs but more real humor."

-Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

"It doesn't matter whether one's limbs are wooden or flesh; it is not out bodies that make us human but the way we treat one another."

-Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

Cover of Batman: One Bad Day - Mr. Freeze #1 by Gerry Duggan

20. Batman: One Bad Day - Mr. Freeze #1

By: Gerry Duggan

3.83

Format: 63 pages, Kindle Edition

Going back to the Dark Knight's early days in Gotham City: Batman and Robin, Dick Grayson, face dow… read more

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21. Batman: One Bad Day - Catwoman #1

By: G. Willow Wilson

3.71

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

When Selina Kyle finds out an item from her past is being sold for way more than it used to be wort… read more

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Cover of My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds by Hannah Pick-Goslar

22. 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
  • biography memoir
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23. Shadow of the Sith (Star Wars)

By: Adam Christopher

3.93

Format: 465 pages, Hardcover

Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian return in this essential novel set between Return of the Jedi a… read more

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" Let the Force guide you. Let it flow through you as it flows through me. Use that power, and your instincts, for they are one and the same. "

-Adam Christopher, Shadow of the Sith (Star Wars)

"The Force... was a living thing, in the crudest terms an energy field that bound the universe together. The Force was not a power, not something to be wielded, or used, or manipulated. Rather, it was…"

-Adam Christopher, Shadow of the Sith (Star Wars)

"Vader had been a fire, a twisting sun-dragon that curled in the core of a star about to go nova. The Emperor, Palpatine, had been the exact opposite – he was ice, the terrifying cold of the bottom of…"

-Adam Christopher, Shadow of the Sith (Star Wars)

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24. Suddenly Super

By: Jen Calonita

3.94

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

What if Violet became an agent of Syndrome? Fourteen-year-old Violet Parr lives by two rules: hi… read more

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25. Through the Snow Globe

By: Annie Rains

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It’s a Wonderful Life meets Groundhog Day, as a woman dangerously close to losing it all receives a… read more

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Cover of Walt's Disneyland: A Walk in the Park with Walt Disney by Marcy Carriker Smothers

26. Walt's Disneyland: A Walk in the Park with Walt Disney

By: Marcy Carriker Smothers

4.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A immersive guide to the attractions and landmarks Walt helped create in his original Magic Kingdom… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Paris is Always a Good Idea by Jenn McKinlay

27. Paris is Always a Good Idea

By: Jenn McKinlay

3.73

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

It's been seven years since Chelsea Martin embarked on her yearlong post-college European adventure… read more

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"There are Good Ships, there Wood Ships, there are Ships that sail the sea. The best Ships are Friendships, and may they always be!"

-Jenn McKinlay, Paris is Always a Good Idea

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28. Women of Walt Disney Imagineering: 12 Women Reflect on their Trailblazing Theme Park Careers (Disney Editions Deluxe)

By: Mel Malmberg

3.97

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

A dozen female Imagineers recount their trailblazing careers! Capturing an era―and preserving the … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Walt's Apprentice: Keeping the Disney Dream Alive by Dick Nunis

29. Walt's Apprentice: Keeping the Disney Dream Alive

By: Dick Nunis

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Walt’s Keeping the Disney Dream Alive is the memoir of Disney Legend Dick Nunis . It is a warm per… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation by Mindy Johnson

30. Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation

By: Mindy Johnson

4.44

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the earliest origins of animated imagery, the colorful link between paper and screen was creat… read more

Similar categories in Mindy Johnson's Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation book and Mindy Johnson's Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation

  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • film
  • feminism
  • womens studies
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • reference

6 must-read history books like Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation by Mindy Johnson

Transform Your Habits

Walt Disney: An American Original

Walt Disney Company , Bob Thomas

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Imagineering Story: The Official Biography of Walt Disney Imagineering

Leslie Iwerks

4.63

Transform Your Habits

The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

Nathalia Holt

4.18

Transform Your Habits

My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

Hannah Pick-Goslar

4.66

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16 Best nonfiction books like Walt's Apprentice: Keeping the Disney Dream Alive by Dick Nunis

Transform Your Habits

Dream It! Do It! (The People, The Places, The Projects): My Half-Century Creating Disney's Magic Kingdoms

Marty Sklar

2.00

The Vault of Walt

Jim Korkis

3.41

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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Robert Iger

4.41

Transform Your Habits

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

Joanna Robinson

4.22

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