A Book About the Arts (dance, music, theater, film, etc.)

This list of titles fulfills the UBN 2024 category of a book about the arts.

Updated October 23, 2024
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The art forger
Shapiro, Barbara A.
Paper Book
"[A] highly entertaining literary thriller about fine art and foolish choices." --Parade  "[A] nimble mystery." --The New York Times Book Review "Gripping." --O, The Oprah Magazine
Broken horses : a memoir
Carlile, Brandi
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, producer, and six-time Grammy winner opens up about faith, sexuality, parenthood, and a life shaped by music in "one of the great memoirs of our time" (Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed). NAMED...
First position
Hamrick, Melanie
Paper Book
Dance was my obsession. Desire was my undoing. *** As a young dancer, Sylvie Carter has a list of rules for making it big in the ballet world. Avoid drama. Don't do drugs. Skip dessert. And of course, never sleep with another dancer. Ballet is a...
Flowers of darkness
Rosnay, Tatiana de
Paper Book
From the internationally bestselling author of Sarah's Key comes Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness, a riveting and emotionally intense novel, set in a near future Paris, where a woman confronts past betrayal and present mystery Author Clarissa Katsef is struggling...
The Gardner heist : a true story of the world's largest unsolved art theft
Boser, Ulrich.
Paper Book
"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." --Vanity Fair
The muralist
Shapiro, Barbara A.
Paper Book
The painted girls
Buchanan, Cathy Marie.
Paper Book
A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris. 1878 Paris. Following their father's sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe...
Russian winter : a novel
Kalotay, Daphne.
Paper Book
"Daphne Kalotay captivates in a soaring debut novel. An elegant, compelling puzzle...
Still lives
Hummel, Maria
Paper Book
STORYTELLER
GROHL, DAVE
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times Bestseller * Named one of Variety's Best Music Books of 2021 * Included in Audible's Best of The Year list * A Business Insider Best Memoirs of 2021 * One of NME's Best Music Books of 2021 So, I've written a book. Having entertained the...

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