I don’t mean straight up picking up a nonfiction tome on Vincent van Gogh or Frida Kahlo — although I have read many of those. But rather, I mean choices that are a bit outside the box. This is the land of creatives, after all. So the biographies I have are in the format of graphic nonfiction and picture books. The nonfiction is about colors and their histories. The memoir is about a portrait artist whose outlook changed thanks to meeting a group of artists building Disability Culture. And the fiction ranges from a YA graphic novel to crime and mystery novels. Each book either focuses on an artist or a person with a job related to art, is set in the world of art, or even is inspired by colonizers stealing art and the original countries stealing them back from museums. It’s an excellent group of books whether you already love everything art related or just want to dip your toe in a world of creatives. If your genre is romance, you may also want to check out these 9 Contemporary Romances Starring Visual Artists!
