A Book About or Involving a Museum

A selection of books that fulfill the UBN 2025 category of a book about or involving a museum.

Updated January 4, 2025
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The goldfinch
Tartt, Donna.
Paper Book
Aged 13, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the...
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos A Novel
Smith, Dominic.
Audiobook
This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In this extraordinary novel, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Australian writer Dominic Smith...
MAGNOLIA PALACE
DAVIS, FIONA
Ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions....
The Cloisters : a novel
Hays, Katy
Paper Book
The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel . . . the discovery of a mysterious deck of tarot cards lays bare shocking secrets within a close-knit circle of researchers at New York's famed Met Cloisters museum. 'Beguiling...
Still lives : a novel
Hummel, Maria
Paper Book
All the beauty in the world : the Metropolitan Museum of Art and me
Bringley, Patrick
Paper Book
** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ** A revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art 'Who would have thought that the outstanding art...

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