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Color Books
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The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as color)
avg rating 3.99 — 23,043 ratings — published 2016
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as color)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,616 ratings — published 2003
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as color)
avg rating 3.89 — 16,249 ratings — published 1963
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Board book)
by (shelved 35 times as color)
avg rating 4.27 — 193,568 ratings — published 1967
Mouse Paint (Board Book)
by (shelved 30 times as color)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,454 ratings — published 1989
Blue: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as color)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,864 ratings — published 2000
Theory of Colours (Mit Press)
by (shelved 27 times as color)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,098 ratings — published 1810
The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as color)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,006 ratings — published 1961
Secret Language of Color: Science, Nature, History, Culture, Beauty of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, & Violet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as color)
avg rating 4.15 — 529 ratings — published 2013
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as color)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,920 ratings — published 2000
A Perfect Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as color)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,105 ratings — published 2005
Chromophobia (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as color)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,303 ratings — published 2000
Color: A Course in Mastering the Art of Mixing Colors (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as color)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,433 ratings — published 2004
The Art of Color: The Subjective Experience and Objective Rationale of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as color)
avg rating 4.31 — 826 ratings — published 1961
Black: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as color)
avg rating 4.09 — 836 ratings — published 2008
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as color)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,484 ratings — published 2010
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as color)
avg rating 4.35 — 60,636 ratings — published 2010
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as color)
avg rating 4.24 — 129 ratings — published 1993
The Brilliant History of Color in Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as color)
avg rating 4.20 — 786 ratings — published 2014
Green (Caldecott Honor Book)
by (shelved 17 times as color)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,767 ratings — published 2012
Red: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as color)
avg rating 4.20 — 503 ratings — published 2017
The Day the Crayons Quit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as color)
avg rating 4.42 — 60,611 ratings — published 2013
Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as color)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,233 ratings — published 1999
A Color of His Own (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as color)
avg rating 4.26 — 22,381 ratings — published 1975
Green: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as color)
avg rating 4.16 — 509 ratings — published 2013
Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as color)
avg rating 3.87 — 127 ratings — published 1999
Dog's Colorful Day: A Messy Story About Colors and Counting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as color)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,381 ratings — published 2001
The Designer's Dictionary of Color: Practical, example-filled guide to thirty key colors, their histories, and persuasive design uses. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as color)
avg rating 4.02 — 378 ratings — published 2017
Planting a Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as color)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,393 ratings — published 1988
I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as color)
avg rating 4.26 — 12,057 ratings — published 2005
The World According to Color: A Cultural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as color)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,357 ratings — published 2022
Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as color)
avg rating 4.43 — 274 ratings — published 2019
Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as color)
avg rating 4.21 — 334 ratings — published 2011
Red: A Crayon's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as color)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,449 ratings — published 2015
Mix It Up! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as color)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,657 ratings — published 2014
Little Blue and Little Yellow: A Story for Pippo and Other Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as color)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,680 ratings — published 1959
Colors: The Story of Dyes and Pigments (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as color)
avg rating 4.04 — 93 ratings — published 2000
Yellow: The History of a Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as color)
avg rating 4.18 — 250 ratings — published 2019
Psicología del color: Cómo actúan los colores sobre los sentimientos y la razón (paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as color)
avg rating 4.14 — 889 ratings — published 2002
White Rabbit's Color Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as color)
avg rating 4.24 — 987 ratings — published 2003
Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as color)
avg rating 4.29 — 412 ratings — published 1989
Werner's Nomenclature of Colours: Adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as color)
avg rating 4.19 — 465 ratings — published 1814
ROY G. BIV: An Exceedingly Surprising Book About Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as color)
avg rating 3.34 — 261 ratings — published 2013
Bear Sees Colors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as color)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,651 ratings — published 2014
The Primary Colors: Three Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as color)
avg rating 4.04 — 321 ratings — published 1994
My Many Colored Days (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as color)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,166 ratings — published 1996
Freight Train (Board Book)
by (shelved 10 times as color)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,081 ratings — published 1978
On Being Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as color)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,154 ratings — published 1975
“238. I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.
239. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. “Love is not consolation,” she wrote. “It is light.”
240. All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Bluets
239. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. “Love is not consolation,” she wrote. “It is light.”
240. All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Bluets
“...and so many colors
I will have seen...
the menacing greys
and pine greens
the soft pink and purples
of spring
and summer blue
and so many others
without you.”
― A touch, a tear, a tempest
I will have seen...
the menacing greys
and pine greens
the soft pink and purples
of spring
and summer blue
and so many others
without you.”
― A touch, a tear, a tempest














