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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 461,113 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as arts)
avg rating 3.94 — 433,499 ratings — published 1972
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 335,275 ratings — published 2012
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,405 ratings — published 2002
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 379,372 ratings — published 1979
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as arts)
avg rating 3.86 — 166,762 ratings — published 1997
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as arts)
avg rating 4.34 — 316,425 ratings — published 2000
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,032 ratings — published 1988
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 4.01 — 13,924 ratings — published 2012
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 117,711 ratings — published 2002
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as arts)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,347 ratings — published 1973
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,817,311 ratings — published 2008
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as arts)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,177 ratings — published 1926
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 4.18 — 127,640 ratings — published 2017
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 110,847 ratings — published 1914
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as arts)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,043,416 ratings — published 1601
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as arts)
avg rating 4.21 — 348,900 ratings — published 2010
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 4.06 — 145,264 ratings — published 1992
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as arts)
avg rating 3.77 — 103,824 ratings — published 1994
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 80,551 ratings — published 2023
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 3.88 — 106,916 ratings — published 2007
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as arts)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,118,371 ratings — published 2009
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as arts)
avg rating 3.83 — 92,511 ratings — published 1912
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,687,793 ratings — published 2010
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.82 — 67,299 ratings — published 2004
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.53 — 40,410 ratings — published 2010
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 4.00 — 131,366 ratings — published 1993
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as arts)
avg rating 3.85 — 235,175 ratings — published 2005
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.15 — 47,346 ratings — published 1988
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 60,883 ratings — published 2014
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.89 — 49,767 ratings — published 1995
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,118 ratings — published 2011
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,010 ratings — published 2007
Last Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.97 — 14,725 ratings — published 2009
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 111,726 ratings — published 2004
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as arts)
avg rating 3.84 — 167,970 ratings — published 2008
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,390 ratings — published 1936
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,854 ratings — published 2007
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as arts)
avg rating 3.93 — 778,392 ratings — published 1999
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.28 — 120,435 ratings — published 1929
Leonardo's Notebooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 3.99 — 53,325 ratings — published 1519
Johnny Mnemonic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 3.79 — 12,231 ratings — published 1981
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,033,805 ratings — published 2013
Clockwork Orange (ScreenPress Film Screenplays)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 4.24 — 14,136 ratings — published 1972
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as arts)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,145 ratings — published 1999
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as arts)
avg rating 4.09 — 509,317 ratings — published 1968
Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as arts)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,192 ratings — published 2023
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as arts)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,051,739 ratings — published 2011
How Music Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as arts)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,338 ratings — published 2014
“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
― Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
