Twin Cities Artful Book Club 

Art and Fear-Ted Orland

 

Color- Victoria Finlay

 

Chysalis-Kim Todd

 

Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder-Lawerence Weschler

 

Turn-Anne Truit

 

Lee Krasner-Gail Levin

 

Everybody Was So Young - Amanda Vaill

 

Strapless-Debrah Davis

 

Just Kids -Patti Smith

 

Trust the Process-Shawn McNiff

 

The Writing Life-Annie Dillard

 

Loving Frank -Nancy Horan

 

Dorthea Lange -Linda Gordon

 

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon -Mark Doty

 

Renoir, My Father -Jean Renoir

 

The Girl with the Gallery -Lindsay Pollack

 

But is it Art? -Cynthia Freeland

 

The Creative Habit -Twyla Tharp

 

Romance on Three Legs- Katie Hafneer

 

Growing Pains -Emily Carr

 

Matisse The Master- Hilary Spurling

 

The Art of Acquiring, a portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone -Mary Gabriel

 

Wabi-Sabi -Leonard Koren

 

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher-Timothy Eagan

 

Gold Finch -Donna Tartt

 

The Anthropology of Turquoise -Ellen Meloy

 

Paper Garden- Molly Peacock

 

The Lost Carving: A jouney to the heart of making - David Esterly

 

The Last Folk Hero,A True Story of Race and Art, Power and Profit -Andrew Dietz

 

A Month in the Country -JL Carr

 

The Protest Singer - Alc Wilkinson

 

Lady in Gold - Anne-Marie O’Connor

 

Mockingbird - Charles J. Shields

 

The Elegance of the Hedgehog -Muriel Barbery

 

The White Blackbird -Honor Moore

 

The Forger’s Apprentice - Mark Forgy

 

Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art, - Christopher Moore

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Wendy and the Lost Boys- Julie Salamon

 

Girl with a Pearl Earring- Tracy Chevalier

 

Diamond in the Rough- Shawn Colvin

 

Girl in Hyacinth Blue- Susan Vreeland

 

Yes Please-Amy Poelher

 

Flappers- Judith Mackrell

 

The Rockwell Heist- Bruce Rubenstein

 

Utopia Parkway- Deborah Solomon

 

Norman Rockwell- Laura Claridge

Beatrix Potter, A life in Nature- by Linda Lear
 

With Billy by Julia Blackburn

 

A Backward Glance, Autobiography by Edith Wharton

 

Red Brick Black Mountain White Clay by Christopher Benfey

 

The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean

 

Imagination in Action, Secrets to Unleashing Creative Expression by Shaun McNiff

 

A Summer of Hummingbirds, by Christopher Benfey

 

Peacock Vine, A.S. Byatt

 

Tulip Fever, Deborah Moggach

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Mozart’s Women, by Jane Glover

The Song Poet: A Memoir of my Father by Kao Kalia Yang

The Turquoise Ledge by Leslie Marmon Silko

 

A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks

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Girls Like Us by Shelia Weller

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The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by John Daido Lorri

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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat

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Andrew Wyeth: by Richard Meryman

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Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, Hunter Drohojowska-Phil.

 

The Book of Emma Reyes, Emma Reyes,Translated by Daniel Alarocon.

 

You Must Change Your Life, Rachel Corbett 

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Blue Arabesque, Patricia Hampl

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I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, Simmons, Sylvie

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The Art Of Setting Stones: Writings from the Japanese Garden, Marc Peter Keane

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Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Diango Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing, Michael Dregni

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Jewels, A Secret History. Victoria Finlay

 

Agnes Martin, Pioneer, Painter, Icon by Henry Martin

 

Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling

 

The Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

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The Hidden Recipes by Eva Moreimi

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Dearest of Geniuses, A life of Theodate Pope Riddle by Sandra L. Katz

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Mona Lisa, A Life Discovered by Dianne Hales

The White Road: Journey into an Obsession by Edmund de Waal

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The Source of Self Regard by Toni Morrison
 

Cræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Alexander Langlands

 

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Saks

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The Art of Description. World into Word by Mark Doty

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Clear Seeing Place by Brian Rutenberg

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Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

 

Artcurious: Stories of the unexpected, Slightly Odd and Strangely Wonderful Art History by Jennifer Dasal

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I Always Loved You by Olivera Robin

Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel

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Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver

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Design Like You Give a Damn [2]: Building Change from the Ground Up by Kate Stohr

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The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, My Father, and Me by Emily Urquhart

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Anything you care to explore about art director and artist Cipe Pineles:
 

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? A Memoir by Roz Chas

 

Three Simple Lines, A Writer's Pilgrimage Into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg

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Noon at Tiffany's: An Historical, Biographical Novel by Echo Heron.

 

Raw Materials Working Wool in the West by Stephany Wilkes.

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33 Artists in 3 Acts by Sarah Thornton.

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Mary Colter, Architect of the Southwest by Berke, Arnold

 

Christo and Jean-Claude by Burt Chernow

Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing by Natalie Goldberg

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A Short Life of Trouble, Forty Years in the New York Art World by Marcia Tucker

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Chasing Me to my Grave, An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert and Erin Kelly

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A Rift in the Earth, Art, Memory, and the Fight of a Vietnam War Memorial by James Reston, JR.

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Taste My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
 

Inside The Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Chelsea Hotel by Sherill Tippins

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The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar

Vivian Maier: A Photographer's Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos

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Bloom in Winter: The Story of a Remarkable Twentieth-Century Woman by Pamela Valois

 

Drawing Your Own Path: 33 Practices at the Crossroads of Art and Meditation by John F. Simon Jr

 

Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation by Frederick Franck.

Gifts of Age by Charlotte Painter

 

Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban

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The War Ends at Four by Rosanna Staffa

 

Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur by Catherine Hewitt

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Every Tool's a Hammer. Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage

 

Paper Bullets by Jeffery Jackson

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Soill, A Black Mother's Garden by poet and scholar Camille T. DungyLost Masterpieces by DK

 

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of the Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
 

How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back by Jeff Tweedy
 

Painting Can Save Your Life, How and Why We Paint- by Sara Woster.

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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
 

It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
 

The Search for the Genuine. Jim Harrison Non Fiction, 1970-2025

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The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt

The Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair

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