The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'FarrellLady in Ermine — The Story of A Woman Who Painted the Renaiss... by Donna DiGiuseppeGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierSacre Blue by Christopher MooreThe Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
Art Historical Fiction
16 books — 5 voters

Recollections of Wittgenstein by Rush RheesCulture and Value by Ludwig WittgensteinPhilosophical Investigations by Ludwig WittgensteinTractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein
46 books — 12 voters

Burned Alive by Alberto A. MartínezGiordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. YatesGiordano Bruno by Ingrid D. RowlandThe Pope and the Heretic by Michael  WhiteOn the Infinite, the Universe and the Worlds by Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
13 books — 3 voters
Eleusis by Karl KerényiOrpheus and Greek Religion by W.K.C. Guthrie
Greek Religion
45 books — 8 voters

The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran MuhammadThy Kingdom Come by Randall BalmerHeartbeat of Struggle by Diane C. Fujino
NPR Throughline Podcast Books
102 books — 4 voters
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Intersectional Books
107 books — 21 voters

Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia BeachSylvia Beach and the Lost Generation by Noël Riley Fitch
Books Featuring Sylvia Beach
10 books — 7 voters
Black by Michel PastoureauGreen by Michel PastoureauRed by Michel PastoureauYellow by Michel PastoureauColor by Victoria Finlay
Best Books About Colors
87 books — 83 voters

The Greeks and the Irrational by E.R. DoddsAsclepius by Emma J. EdelsteinArcana Mundi by Georg LuckA History of Magic and Experimental Science by Lynn ThorndikeThinking with Demons by Stuart   Clark
Forbidden Histories
28 books — 2 voters
Down Below by Leonora CarringtonIn a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. HughesThe Door by Magda SzabóThe Dud Avocado by Elaine DundyGreat Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
NYRB Classics: Books by Women
143 books — 48 voters

Cognitive Confusions by Ita MacCarthyMadness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography by Katharine HodgkinThe Great Art of Knowing by Daniel StolzenbergThe Ecstatic Journey by Ingrid D. RowlandExploring the Kingdom of Saturn by Harry B. Evans
•Eerily Modern
197 books — 9 voters
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonMaldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de LautréamontThe Seventh Horse and Other Tales by Leonora CarringtonStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
125 books — 103 voters

I Know Nothing by Denise J. WilsonThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteWinter Is Coming by Tony JohnstonThe Watcher on the Walls by Harper Hull
Book Recommendations for Jon Snow
149 books — 216 voters

The Mystic Mantle; or, the demon spider and the angel fly by James Harry BunnOldest History Of The World As Told By Occult Science in Detr... by Benny EvangelistThe Dwarfs of Mount Atlas by Robert Grant HaliburtonMan the Molecule by Charles Edgar De AnguerreElectronic Lullaby Meat Market, The by John B. Spencer
•Barely Exist
130 books — 11 voters
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
The Post-Trump Big Questions Canon
518 books — 270 voters

The Arcades Project by Walter BenjaminLa Folie Baudelaire by Roberto CalassoThe Gnostics by Jacques LacarrièreThe Night Country by Loren EiseleyPharmako/Poeia by Dale Pendell
Insomnia literaria
19 books — 8 voters
Ice by Anna KavanIf on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von RezzoriHunger by Knut HamsunThe Virgin in the Ice by Ellis Peters
Ice and Snow
685 books — 190 voters



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