10 must-read art books like Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody by Keith Haring

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Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody

By: Keith Haring

4.53

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Haring as activist and a fresh, accessible and dynamic look at one of New York’s most exhilarating…

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Cover of Jean-Michel Basquiat by Glenn O'Brien, Dieter Buchhart, Jean-Louis Prat, Jean-Michel Basquiat

1. Jean-Michel Basquiat

By: Glenn O'Brien , Dieter Buchhart , Jean-Louis Prat , Jean-Michel Basquiat

4.68

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

A superbly produced retrospective on the luminous career of Jean-Michel Basquiat The first African-… read more

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2. Bluets

By: Maggie Nelson

4.22

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color... A lyrical, philosophica… read more

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3. Seven Days in the Art World

By: Sarah Thornton

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Named one of the best art books of 2008 by The New York Timesand The Sunday Times[London]: "An inde… read more

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4. The Andy Warhol Diaries

By: Andy Warhol , Pat Hackett

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

,,Dnevnici" Endija Vorhola su izdati daleke 1989. godine i do danas su doziveli nebrojeno mnogo izd… read more

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5. The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

By: Oliver Burkeman

3.94

Format: 450 pages, ebook

A witty, fascinating, and counterintuitive read that turns decades of self-help advice on its head … read more

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6. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

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"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

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7. Camp Damascus

By: Chuck Tingle

3.94

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price… read more

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"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

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8. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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9. White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

By: Kelly Link

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern … read more

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"Pity the introvert with the face of a therapist or a kindergarten teacher. Like the werewolf, we are uneasy in human spaces and human company, though we wear a human skin."

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

"And so, some think it may be possible to survive their presence if only one can enter into a state in which one is not afraid. Only we are so very afraid of them. How could we not be? They are monste…"

-Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog: Stories

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10. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova… read more

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"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing. —Exhortations for a Happy Life"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not. —From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a sp…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

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11. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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12. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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13. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

By: John Waters

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more

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14. The Crane Husband

By: Kelly Barnhill

3.88

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill brings her singular talents to The Crane Husband, a raw, powerf… read more

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"Your mother doesn't know these things,"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

"But Michael was only six. He should be worrying about learning how to tie his shoes, not about our mother’s checking account."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

"I was, as I said, only nine. But my mother often spoke to me as though I were a peer rather than a child and expected me to understand things for which I did not yet have context. I didn’t know then …"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

"My dad told me stories of weavers who stitched the world and spun fortunes and pulled on strings to change someone's fate. Was there a string I could pull to stop my father from dying? Was there a pa…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Crane Husband

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15. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

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"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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16. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

By: Susan Magsamen

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more

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Cover of Dying of Politeness: A Memoir by Geena Davis

17. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

By: Geena Davis

4.04

Format: None pages, Audio CD

None read more

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Cover of The Visit (Black Stars, #1) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

18. The Visit (Black Stars, #1)

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3.95

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men—old friends—confront the past and future in a … read more

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Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

19. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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Cover of Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch

20. 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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Cover of The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

21. The Story of Art Without Men

By: Katy Hessel

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more

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Cover of Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine

22. Delicate Condition

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister … read more

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"Sometimes it felt like the continuation of our species was an ongoing experiment being performed on the backs of women. Or on our wombs."

-Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

Cover of Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography by Wendy Loggia

23. Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book Biography

By: Wendy Loggia

4.68

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Taylor Swift, the Grammy A… read more

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Cover of Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation by J. Faith Almiron

24. Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation

By: J. Faith Almiron

4.54

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

How hip-hop culture and graffiti electrified the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his contemporaries… read more

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Cover of Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston

25. Master of Poisons

By: Andrea Hairston

3.36

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blow… read more

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Cover of Book Nooks: Inspired Ideas for Cozy Reading Corners and Stylish Book Displays by Vanessa Dina

26. Book Nooks: Inspired Ideas for Cozy Reading Corners and Stylish Book Displays

By: Vanessa Dina

3.66

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Home is where the books are. This inspiring home decor book is brimming with photos of cozy places … read more

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Cover of John Waters: Pope of Trash by John Waters

27. John Waters: Pope of Trash

By: John Waters

4.67

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

Irreverent, heartfelt, shocking and laugh-out-loud funny―a colorful celebration of the work of subv… read more

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Cover of Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody by Keith Haring

28. Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody

By: Keith Haring

4.53

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Haring as activist and a fresh, accessible and dynamic look at one of New York’s most exhilarating… read more

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Cover of Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure© by Lisane Basquiat

29. Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure©

By: Lisane Basquiat

4.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This landmark volume tells the story of Jean-Michel Basquiat from the intimate perspective of his f… read more

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Cover of Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings by Jeffrey Deitch

30. Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings

By: Jeffrey Deitch

4.20

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating look at Keith Haring’s New York City subway artwork from the 1980s Celebrated artist… read more

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Cover of Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Iconic Works by Dieter Buchhart

31. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Iconic Works

By: Dieter Buchhart

4.67

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The artist’s most inspired works in one volume. Jean-Michel Basquiat—artist and art world provocat… read more

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