59 books
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42 voters
Art Crime Books
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The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,850 ratings — published 2009
Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,431 ratings — published 2010
Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,419 ratings — published
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,720 ratings — published 2009
The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,315 ratings — published 2005
Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,327 ratings — published 2006
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as art-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,175 ratings — published 2011
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 111,282 ratings — published 2023
The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,222 ratings — published 2015
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 96,302 ratings — published 2012
The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of Master Forgers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.94 — 724 ratings — published 2015
The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.84 — 786 ratings — published 2006
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.81 — 52,784 ratings — published 2009
Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,014 ratings — published 2010
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,985 ratings — published 2008
The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,588 ratings — published 2009
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,181 ratings — published 2008
Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.83 — 571 ratings — published 2010
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,202 ratings — published 2009
Art and Crime: Exploring the Dark Side of the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 45 ratings — published 2009
The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.71 — 726 ratings — published 2004
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,772 ratings — published 1994
The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.48 — 699 ratings — published 2009
The Map Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.64 — 3,815 ratings — published 2014
The Art Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.09 — 3,793 ratings — published 2007
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.77 — 8,544 ratings — published 2008
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.85 — 363 ratings — published 2004
Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World s Greatest Art Heist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.26 — 1,175 ratings — published 2015
Caveat Emptor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,162 ratings — published 2012
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.88 — 36,058 ratings — published 2005
The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie Auction House Scandal (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 630 ratings — published 2004
The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.23 — 792 ratings — published 2020
Art Crime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.91 — 11 ratings — published 1994
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: On Stealing the World's Most Famous Painting (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.63 — 192 ratings — published 2011
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,763 ratings — published 2018
I Was Vermeer: The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,616 ratings — published 2006
Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.50 — 48 ratings — published 2011
Crime and the Art Market (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.18 — 11 ratings — published
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,164 ratings — published 2022
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon, #22)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 4.23 — 34,165 ratings — published 2022
Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.37 — 670 ratings — published 2019
Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.56 — 135 ratings — published 2016
Crimes of the Art World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2010
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,949 ratings — published 2012
The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,364 ratings — published 1997
The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)
by (shelved 4 times as art-crime)
avg rating 4.36 — 30,246 ratings — published 2023
The Museum of Lost Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 364 ratings — published 2018
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.45 — 14,295 ratings — published 2009
The Scientist and the Forger: Insights Into the Scientific Detection of Forgery in Paintings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-crime)
avg rating 3.29 — 14 ratings — published 2015
The art forgers handbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-crime)
avg rating 4.24 — 130 ratings — published 1997







