Most recommended Arts & Entertainment books

Explore a curated collection of Arts & Entertainment books handpicked by the most influential specialists.

All most recommended Arts books by specialists

Born Standing Up

Steve Martin

Just Kids

Patti Smith

A Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander et al.

Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen

How Buildings Learn

Stewart Brand

On Writing

Stephen King

Steal Like an Artist

Austin Kleon

Show Your Work!

Austin Kleon

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

Understanding Comics

Scott Mccloud

The Gift

Lewis Hyde

Breakthrough Advertising

Eugene M. Schwartz

Catching the Big Fish

David Lynch

Design As Art

Bruno Munari

Envisioning Information

Edward R. Tufte

Decoded

Jay-Z

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

How To

Michael Bierut

Draft No. 4

John McPhee

How to Take Smart Notes

Sönke Ahrens

Self-Improvement

Go the F**k to Sleep

Adam Mansbach

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be

Paul Arden

Self-Improvement

Ogilvy on Advertising

David Ogilvy

Modern Romance

Aziz Ansari

This Is Your Brain on Music

Daniel J. Levitin

Upstream

Mary Oliver

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