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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

The full library classification — every book has exactly one, more granular than Genre. Different counts for a same-named bucket here vs. Genre reflect two different systems, not an error.

Featured — award winners and classics first, when available. Use “Show different books” for a new selection.

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The portable Van Gogh

Robert Hughes, Vincent van Gogh

2002

The portable Picasso

Pablo Picasso, Robert Hughes

2003

Raphael

Jones, Roger, Roger Jones, Nicholas Penny

1983

Rock of ages, sands of time

Warren D. Allmon, Barbara Page

2001

Bruce Naumann : der wahre Künstler = The true artist / Beatrice von Bismarck ; [Übersetzung ins Englische

Bruce Nauman, Beatrice von Bismarck

1998

Salvador Dalí

Luis Romero, Salvador Dalí

2003

Rodin

Raphael Masson, Veronique Mattiussi, Raphaël Masson

2015

Willem de Kooning

Sally Yard, James Valliere, Willem de Kooning

1997

Velázquez

Diego Velázquez, Santiago Alcolea

1998

Kandinsky, catalogue raisonné of the oil-paintings

Hans K. Roethel, Hans Konrad Röthel, Jean K. Benjamin

1982

Vermeer

Gilles Aillaud, Albert Blankert

2007

Andy Warhol

Christian Gogger, Andy Warhol, Friederike Nymphius

2002

Artifacts of flight

Ginger Danto, George Rodrigue, Carolyn Russo et al.

2003

M.C. Escher

Flip Bool, M. C. Escher, Bruno Ernst et al.

1992

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Every book has its own page with an embedded reader where available, plus outbound links to Open Library, the Toronto Public Library, Libby, and Amazon.

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