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The Painted Girls

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Books like The Painted Girls

If you loved The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

The Art Forger

B.A. Shapiro

No. 2

Seven Days in the Art World

Sarah Thornton

No. 3

The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt

Caroline Preston

No. 4

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

No. 5

The Invention of Wings

Sue Monk Kidd

No. 6

Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

David Bayles, Ted Orland

No. 7

An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers

Danny Gregory

No. 8

Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald

Therese Anne Fowler

No. 9

The Kitchen House

Kathleen Grissom

No. 10

The Chaperone

Laura Moriarty

No. 11

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern

No. 12

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

Ross King

No. 13

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

Jennifer Chiaverini

No. 14

Leonardo's Notebooks

Leonardo da Vinci, H. Anna Suh

No. 15

The Story of Art

E.H. Gombrich

No. 16

Circling the Sun

Paula McLain

No. 17

The Natural Way to Draw

Kimon Nicolaides, Mamie Harmon

No. 18

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

No. 19

The House Girl

Tara Conklin

No. 20

Drawing from Memory

Allen Say

No. 21

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

No. 22

The Light Between Oceans

M.L. Stedman

No. 23

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Steven Galloway

No. 24

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, Ronald de Leeuw, Mark Roskill, Arnold J. Pomerans