If you liked
Books like The Story of Art
Loved The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from art & photography, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Ways of Seeing
How we look at images, and who benefits; a short, radical book that changed art criticism.
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On Photography
What taking and viewing photographs does to us; a brilliant, much-quoted set of essays.
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Understanding Comics
How comics work as a medium, told in comics form; ingenious and widely admired.
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The Fire Next Time
Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.
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The Human Condition
A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern hum
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Between man and man
Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one b
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The Road to Serfdom
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century.
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A Grief Observed
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moment," A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the mid
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Historias de cronopios y de famas
"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the obsessions a