The Natural Way to Draw

Kimon Nicolaides, Mamie Harmon

★ 3.9

1941

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

★ 4.3

1960

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

★ 4.0

1932

A Walk to Remember

Nicholas Sparks

★ 4.2

1999

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

★ 3.9

2013

The Story of Art

E.H. Gombrich

★ 3.8

1950

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

★ 3.8

1972

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

★ 4.0

1909

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

★ 3.6

2010

A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone, #1)

Sue Grafton

★ 3.8

1982

Nine Stories

J.D. Salinger

★ 4.2

1953

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Azar Nafisi

★ 3.6

2003

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard Feynman

★ 4.3

1984

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Max Brooks

★ 3.9

2004

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Scott McCloud

★ 4.0

1993

Rose Madder

Stephen King

★ 3.7

1995

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

Julia Cameron

★ 3.9

1992

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (PostSecret)

Frank Warren

★ 4.0

2005

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, Ronald de Leeuw, Mark Roskill, Arnold J. Pomerans

★ 4.0

1914

The Art Forger

B.A. Shapiro

★ 3.7

2012

Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

David Bayles, Ted Orland

★ 3.7

1993

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Sebastian Junger

★ 4.1

1997

Stoner

John Williams, John McGahern

★ 4.3

1965

An Object of Beauty

Steve Martin

★ 3.6

2010

Lies My Teacher Told Me

James W. Loewen

★ 4.0

1995

History of Beauty

Umberto Eco, Girolamo De Michele, Alastair McEwen

★ 3.8

2004

Evening Class

Maeve Binchy

★ 4.0

1996

The Collector

John Fowles

★ 4.0

1963

How the Irish Saved Civilization

Thomas Cahill

★ 3.8

1995

The Valley of Amazement

Amy Tan

★ 3.6

2013

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

★ 3.8

1961

Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings

Rainer Metzger, Ingo F. Walther

★ 4.1

1988

Art Through the Ages

Helen Gardner, Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya

★ 3.8

1926

The Swan Thieves

Elizabeth Kostova

★ 3.5

2010

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

Edmund de Waal

★ 3.9

2009

The Shock of the New

Robert Hughes

★ 3.7

1980

Perfect You

Elizabeth Scott

★ 3.7

2008

The Lost Painting

Jonathan Harr

★ 3.7

2005

The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare

Chris Smith, Christopher Lee, Richard Taylor

★ 4.5

Never Cry Wolf

Farley Mowat

★ 4.2

1963

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Paulo Freire, Myra Bergman Ramos, Donaldo Macedo, Richard Shaull

★ 4.3

1968

The Mixed-Up Chameleon

Eric Carle

★ 4.2

1975

The Bronze Bow

Elizabeth George Speare

★ 3.9

1961

All My Sons

Arthur Miller, Christopher Bigsby

★ 3.9

1947

The Jesus I Never Knew

Philip Yancey

★ 4.2

1995

The Lady of Shalott

Alfred Tennyson, Charles Keeping

★ 4.2

1833

The Snowman

Raymond Briggs

★ 4.3

1978

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

Josh Kaufman

★ 4.0

2010

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos

Dominic Smith

★ 3.8

2016

The Flanders Panel

Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Jull Costa

★ 3.8

1990

Billy Budd, Sailor

Herman Melville

★ 3.1

1924

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

Tom Standage

★ 3.7

2005

Orientalism

Edward Said

★ 4.1

1978

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Judith Kerr

★ 4.2

1968

The 20th Century Art Book

Phaidon Press

★ 3.9

1996

Strangers on a Train

Patricia Highsmith

★ 3.8

1950

Z for Zachariah

Robert C. O'Brien

★ 3.6

1974

Shoeless Joe

W.P. Kinsella

★ 4.0

1982

Edvard Munch: 1863-1944 (Basic Art)

Ulrich Bischoff

★ 4.1

1990

Night Train to Lisbon

Pascal Mercier, Barbara Harshav

★ 3.7

2004