8 must-read biography books like In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist through Photographs and Paintings by Gloria Fossi

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In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist through Photographs and Paintings

By: Gloria Fossi

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, from his birthplace in Zundert, Netherlands, to his la…

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1. The Prince and the Pauper

By: Mark Twain , None , Everett Emerson

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-cen… read more

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"Loose and forbear!"

-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

"A fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved."

-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

"A full belly is of little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart."

-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

"Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily."

-Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

2. A Lesson Before Dying

By: Ernest J. Gaines

3.48

Format: None pages,

A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black… read more

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3. The Art Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

By: D.K. Publishing

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Embark on a tour of the world's greatest artistic movements and works, from prehistoric cave painti… read more

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4. Up from Slavery

By: Booker T. Washington , Ishmael Reed

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slaver… read more

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5. My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (My Brother's Husband Omnibus, #1)

By: Gengoroh Tagame , Anne Ishii

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

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6. Airman

By: Eoin Colfer

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor … read more

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7. Anne of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #6)

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.88

Format: None pages,

Anne is the mother of five, with never a dull moment in her lively home. And now with a new baby on… read more

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8. The Wit and Wisdom of Downton Abbey

By: Jessica Fellowes

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

"Come war and peace Downton still stands and the Crawleys are still in it." Downton Abbey is loved … read more

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9. Chivalry

By: Neil Gaiman

4.21

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

Another delightfully humorous and sweet fantasy graphic novel adaptation of a Neil Gaiman short sto… read more

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"Mrs. Whitaker found the Holy Grail; it was under a fur coat."

-Neil Gaiman, Chivalry

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10. Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind

By: David Vandermeulen

4.38

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 N… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. The Talk

By: Darrin Bell

4.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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12. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

By: Nora Krug

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

„Kaip žinoti, kas esi, jei nesupranti, iš kur ateini?“ – klausia iliustratorė ir rašytoja Nora Krug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Here was the evidence of our collective guilt."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"We struggled to understand the meaning of Heimat."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"Whenever I traveled abroad as a teenager, my guilt traveled with me."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"How do you know who you are, if you don't understand where you come from?"

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

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13. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Oliver Darkshire

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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14. Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

By: Jessica Pan

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An introvert spends a year trying to live like an extrovert with hilarious results and advice for r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"That’s the truth of the world, Jessica,"

-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

"I hate flakiness, and I blame the Facebook ‘Maybe’ button,"

-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

"I'm giddy just imagining the shit I'll get up to when I'm eighty."

-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

"I watched my first penalty shoot-out during the World Cup 2014 (Brazil vs. Chile): men cried, I cried, Neymar cried. I was done for. I loved it."

-Jessica Pan, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously

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15. 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

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  • art
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16. Book Love

By: Debbie Tung

4.29

Format: 137 pages, Hardcover

Bookworms rejoice! These charming comics capture exactly what it feels like to be head-over-heels f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

By: Bart D. Ehrman

4.06

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping ques… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It is impossible to overrate the importance of Homer on the culture and religion of ancient Greece. It is not that the Iliad and the Odyssey were “the Bible"

-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

"The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible."

-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

"The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while l…"

-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

"The fear of death in antiquity differed from the terrors of torment or horrors of actual nonexistence experienced by so many in the West today. It was instead the dread of losing out on everything a …"

-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

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18. Outlandish: Walking Europe’s Unlikely Landscapes

By: Nick Hunt

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be ther… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Fungirl

By: Elizabeth Pich

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fungirl is a hapless (hopeless) hot mess of a woman crashing through life, leaving chaos in her wak… read more

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20. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

By: Deborah Heiligman

4.00

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Con… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Colour expresses something in itself. -Vincent Van Gogh"

-Deborah Heiligman, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

"I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it."

-Deborah Heiligman, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

"What a mystery life is, and love is a mystery within a mystery. -Vincent Van Gogh"

-Deborah Heiligman, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

"How much there is in art that is beautiful, if only one can remember what one has seen, one is never empty or truly lonely, and never alone. -Vincent Van Gogh"

-Deborah Heiligman, Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

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21. Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944

By: Anne de Courcy

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating narrative, Chanel’s Riviera explores the fascinating world of the Cote d’Azur d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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22. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

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"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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23. The Second Chance Hotel

By: Sierra Godfrey

3.61

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's all fun and games until you accidentally marry a stranger in Greece and inherit a hotel. Am… read more

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"Her mother wanted Amelia to say Of course I was coming! so her mother could then suggest that Amelia was far too busy for a little old her, and Amelia could insist she was never too busy for her moth…"

-Sierra Godfrey, The Second Chance Hotel

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24. The Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen

By: Maartje Willems

3.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

“The best thing about niksen is the absence of a goal. It doesn’t serve a purpose, but it’s wonderf… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It’s a paradox: Life is beautiful, dying less so, yet it’s death that makes life more beautiful, or at least special."

-Maartje Willems, The Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen

"The phenomenon of burnout has given rise to a multimillion-dollar industry of self-help to counter its negative effects. Vinkers takes a more skeptical view and believes that simple life lessons like…"

-Maartje Willems, The Lost Art of Doing Nothing: How the Dutch Unwind with Niksen

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25. Frogcatchers

By: Jeff Lemire

3.77

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Experience a surreal descent into one man’s psychosis in this haunting and chilling graphic novel f… read more

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26. Eat the Rich

By: Sarah Gailey

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

When the rich and powerful are literal cannibals, how can regular people avoid being on the menu?WE… read more

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27. The Fifteen Wonders of Daniel Green

By: Erica Boyce

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Sometimes wonder is found not beyond the stars, but a few feet from your own front door... Danie… read more

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28. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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29. Van Gogh's Letters: The Mind of the Artist in Paintings, Drawings, and Words, 1875-1890

By: Vincent van Gogh

4.56

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, this beautiful and important collection of more than 150 of Van Gogh's letters pa… read more

Similar categories in Vincent van Gogh's Van Gogh's Letters: The Mind of the Artist in Paintings, Drawings, and Words, 1875-1890 book and Gloria Fossi's In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist through Photographs and Paintings

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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30. In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist through Photographs and Paintings

By: Gloria Fossi

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, from his birthplace in Zundert, Netherlands, to his la… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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31. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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13 Top nonfiction books like In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist through Photographs and Paintings by Gloria Fossi

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David Vandermeulen

4.38

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4.65

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Nora Krug

4.32

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3.97

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4.50

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