Dear Art Educators,

I got a request (off list) for a list of books relating to art.
If you know of a good book that is not on this list, please post it.

Also post a mini review (a sentence or two) of the books listed below that you have read and that you know are good for kids to read, too.

Here is a list of novels relating to art:
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/Art.html

Some of these (from Amazon.com) are listed on the above link (Brown isn't listed):

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett (maybe more for younger students?)
Headlong: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Michael Frayn

The Winter Queen by Jane Stevenson

 Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland

The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland

Leonardo's Swans: A Novel by Karen Essex

The Ruby Ring: A Novel by Diane Haeger

Life Studies: Stories by Susan Vreeland

 The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland

The Apothecary's House by Adrian Mathews

 The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel by Rudy Rucker

Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach

The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

The Painter by Will Davenport

The Birth of Venus: A Novel by Sarah Dunant

The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease

The Painted Kiss: A Novel by Elizabeth Hickey
(probably not for kids - about Klimt and on of his lovers)

The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart

The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart

Artemisia: A Novel by Alexandra Lapierre

In the Kingdom of Mists by Jane Jakeman

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone

Lust for Life by Irving Stone

Depths of Glory by Irving Stone

Quattrocento by James Mckean

The Painter by Will Davenport

The Music Lesson: A Novel by Katharine Weber

Life Studies: Stories by Susan Vreeland

The Serpent Garden by Judith Merkle Riley

A Likeness by Sonia Overall

Cupid and the Silent Goddess by Alan Fisk


Here is a list compiled by Sue Stevens  (many of these are also listed above)

Sarah Dunant - The Birth of Venus, also In the Company of the Courtesan

Tracy Chevalier - Girl with a Pearl Earring, also The Lady and the Unicorn

Irving Stone - The Agony and the Ecstasy (Michelangelo)

Diana Gabaldon - Outlander (also called Cross Stitch), also Dragonfly in Amber, etc.

Anita Diamant - The Red Tent

Howard Norman - The Bird Artist

Gregory MacGuire - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Olivia Manning - Artist Among the Missing

Jane Jakeman - The Egyptian Coffin

Tucker Malarkey - Resurrection: a novel

Karen Essex - Leonardo's Swans, also Kleopatra, also Pharaoh (Kleopatra II)

Harriet Scott Chessman - Lindia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper

Ken Follet - The Modigliani Scandal (Signet), also Pillars of The Earth

Susan Vreeland - The Passion of Artemisia, also Life Studies: Stories, also The Forest Lover, also Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code

Claire Cooperstein - Johanna: A Novel of the vanGogh Family

Marek Halter - Sarah

Sarah Gruen - Water for Elephants

Robert Harris - Pompeii, also Imperium: A novel of Ancient Rome

Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha

Wilbur Smith - The Seventh Scroll, also Warlock, etc.

Margaret George - Memoirs of Cleopatra

Robin Cook - Sphinx

Agatha Christie - Death Comes as the End

Mika Waltari - Egyptian

Christian Jacq - Ramses: The Son of Light, Vol. 1

Brad Geagley - Day of the False King: A Novel of Murder in Ancient Babylon, also Year of the Hyenas: A Novel of Murder in Ancient Egypt

Christian Jacq - The Empire of Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Egypt

Kathryn Davis - Versailles

Mario Vargas Llosa, Natasha Wimmer (Translator) - The Way to Paradise

Irving Stone - Lust for Life

Javier Sierra, Alberto Manguel (Translator) - The Secret Supper