Not Quite by the Book
Julie Hatcher, Julie Anne Lindsey
Published 2025
307 pages
The most popular art & creativity books of 2025
Books about art and creativity are about people who make things. Painters, writers, musicians and performers chase an idea, doubt themselves and sometimes pay dearly for their gift. These novels, memoirs and guides are inspiring for anyone with a creative life of their own. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
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Say Everything
Ione Skye
2025 · 2026 edition
304 pages
John & Paul A Love Story in Songs
Ian Leslie
Published 2025
448 pages
Accidentally on Purpose
Kristen Kish, Stef Ferrari
Published 2025
352 pages
When the Going Was Good
Graydon Carter
Published 2025
432 pages
The CIA Book Club
Charlie English
Published 2025
384 pages
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth
Maggie Nelson
2025 · 2026 edition
80 pages
Autopsy of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob
Avan Jogia
Published 2025
240 pages
Sin
K. Loraine, Meg Anne
Published 2025
380 pages
The Novel Life of Jane Austen
Janine Barchas
Published 2025
144 pages
Emma and Capucine, Volume 1
Jérôme Hamon, Lena Sayaphoum
Published 2025
104 pages
The Library in the Woods
Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Published 2025
32 pages
How to End a Story
Helen Garner
Published 2025
832 pages
Stand-In Star
Rachael Johns
Published 2025
182 pages
Bird School
Adam Nicolson
Published 2025
448 pages
In My Remaining Years
Jean Grae
Published 2025
304 pages
J.R.R. Tolkien
Don Marshall
Published 2025
240 pages
The Many Lives of Ibrahim Nagui
Samia Mehrez
Published 2025
252 pages
The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn
Helene Harrison
Published 2025
260 pages
Ballet Besties
Yasmine Naghdi
Published 2025
224 pages
Deeply Grateful & Entirely Unsatisfied A Book for Anyone Wondering if Life Is Giving You Magical Gifts or Just Messing with You
Amanda Happé
Published 2025
128 pages
The Cat and The Masked Woman
Colette, Diana Holmes, Helen Constantine
Published 2025
208 pages
Sol Price retail revolutionary and social innovator
Robert E. Price, Waterbear
Published 2025
223 pages
The Last Real Showgirl
Diane Christiansen
Published 2025
268 pages