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SRC 2025: Read a Book with an Artist as a Character for Adults

Adult books to fulfill Tacoma Public Library's 2025 Summer Reading Challenge (SRC) category: "read a book with an artist as a character."

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  • Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he has been the leading creative force behind Marvel Comics, and has brought to life--and into the mainstream--some of the world's best-known heroes…
    Book, 2015New York : Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2015. — GN 741.5092 LEE 2015
  • Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten--certainly by the time…
    Book, 2024New York : Flatiron Books, 2024. — F GONZA-X
  • Inspired by true events, this gorgeous, haunting novel intertwines the lives of two Black female artists more than a century apart, both outsiders in Italy. It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become…
    Book, 2022New York : Other Press, [2022] — F SCEGO-I
  • Currey explores the daily obstacles and rituals of women who are artists--painters, composers, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers, and performers. We see how these brilliant minds get to work, the choices they have to make: rebuffing convention,…
    Book, 2019New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. — 704.04201 C9366D 2019
  • Once, Celeste Artois had dreams of being an artist. But when the creative elite of Paris dashed those plans, she turned her talents to forgery and cons. She and the Enchantresses--her two fellow thieves and best friends--see Paris as a rich hunting…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Redhook, 2024. — F GRAUD-R
  • Artie Anderson wouldn't call himself lonely, not exactly. He has a beautiful apartment in the West Village, a steady career as a ghostwriter, and he has Halle and Vanessa, who--as the daughter and ex-wife of his former partner--are the closest thing…
    Book, 2024New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2024. — F FINGE-B
  • Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to…
    Book, 2023New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — F CENTE-K
  • Jack Kirby

    the Epic Life of the King of Comics

    Scioli, Tom,
    An action-packed illustrated life in comic books. Creating and co-creating some of the most enduring superheroes and supervillains of all time--including Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, Black Panther, Thor,…
    Book, 2023California : Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press, [2023] — GN 741.5973 KIRBY 2020
  • An uplifting, feminist coming-of-age love story about a young woman who dreams of becoming a tattoo artist, and living life on her own terms. Introvert Gina Mulley is determined to become a tattoo artist, and to find somewhere she belongs in her…
    Book, 2022[New York] : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2022] — F GERVA-J
  • Kusama

    the Graphic Novel

    Macellari, Elisa,
    In 1960s America, Kusama is a symbol of free love and peace. She fights a constant battle with her mental health, but finds salvation in art. From her childhood in rural Japan through her radical happenings in New York to her groundbreaking…
    Book, 2020London : Laurence King Publishing, 2020. — GN 709.2 KUSAMA 2020
  • Esther's family has always believed they were descended from a great, though scandalously underappreciated Impressionist-era artist. But when questions arise about her ancestor's greatest work--The Lady with the Dark Hair--her once-solid family…
    Book, 2024Grand Rapids, Michigan : Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2024] — F BARTE-E
  • Brenae Brazil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigious art school in the country, and a pupil of the institution's equally famous and influential director, Hal Giroux. Brenae's path to art world stardom is all but assured,…
    Book, 2021Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021. — F HUMME-M
  • Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a…
    Book, 2023New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — F JAMES-T
  • Ninth Street Women

    Lee Krasner, Elaine De Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

    Gabriel, Mary, 1955-
    Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century…
    Book, 2018New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 700.411 G1144N 2018
  • The Other Side

    a Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World

    Higgie, Jennifer,
    In The Other Side, we explore the lives and work of a group of extraordinary women, from the twelfth-century mystic, composer and artist Hildegard of Bingen to the nineteenth-century English spiritualist Georgiana Houghton, whose paintings swirl…
    Book, 2024New York : Pegasus Books, 2024. — 709.22 HIGGIE 2024
  • Eva Santos Moon is a burgeoning Chicana artist who practices the ancient, spiritual ways of brujera̕ and curanderisma, but she's at one of her lowest points--suffering from disorienting blackouts, creative stagnation, and a feeling of disconnect…
    Book, 2022Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, 2022. — F GIVHA-J
  • The London suburb of Croydon, 1964: Helen Hansford is unmarried and in her thirties. Something of a disappointment to her middle-class parents, she's an art therapist at the Westbury Park psychiatric hospital, where she has been having a rebellious…
    Book, 2024New York : Mariner Books, [2024] — F CHAMB-C
  • Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy,…
    Book, 2018Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press, 2018. — F HUMME-M
  • How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the…
    Book, 2023New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, 2023. — 700.82 H464S 2023
  • Tsimshian Eagle

    a Culture Bearer's Journey

    Boxley, David A., 1952-
    As a young man, David A. Boxley hungered for authentic Tsimshian culture. Christian missionaries had whitewashed his people's past, stripping them of their language and traditions. Boxley bristled at the cheap totem poles passed off on tourists for…
    Book, 2023Seattle : Chin Music Press, 2023. — 704.0397 BOXLEY 2023