Books similar like Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Guide

Buy this book on Amazon

The Lioness of Boston

A deeply evocative novel of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, a daring visionary who created an inimitable legacy in American art and transformed the city of Boston itself.

By the time Isabella St…

Buy this book on Amazon

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one of America’s most unique and stunning museums—a late bloomer whose own life was remade by art. Isabe…

Buy this book on Amazon

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die

America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel the tale of a haunting -- or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montbarry haunts the Palace Hotel in Venice --- or…

Buy this book on Amazon

Accidentally Wes Anderson

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A visual adventure of Wes Anderson proportions, authorized by the legendary filmmaker himself: stunning photographs of real-life places that seem plucked from the just-s…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft

“The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft,” The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser is a fascinating account of a brazen and amazing criminal act—a book that could help police and investigat…

Buy this book on Amazon

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivity on the front lines of our vicious culture wars. One of the things small town librarian Amanda Jones…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

Buy this book on Amazon

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.

In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius…

Buy this book on Amazon

We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay: Tips, Tales, Travels

In this hilarious and often touching collection, the New York Times bestselling author, television writer, and producer takes us with him on travels across the globe.

Gary Janetti has gained a devoted …

Buy this book on Amazon

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492.

Contrary to what so many Ame…

Buy this book on Amazon

All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.

Millions of people climb the grand marble sta…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Memory Palace of Isabella Stewart Gardner

Buy this book on Amazon

Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across the country and mourners gathered at King's funer…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Pickwick Papers

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers–-a comic masterpiece that catapulted its 24-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Show Don't Tell

A funny, fiercely intelligent, and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition—including a story that revisits the main character from Curtis Sittenfeld’s iconic nove…

Buy this book on Amazon

Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

Buy this book on Amazon

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Buy this book on Amazon

Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life

Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life similar books