My Nightstand. My Bookshelf.

These titles are linked to Amazon for the synopsis and further information about each book. Most can be purchased used. I love Amazon Used Books and Abe Used Books (Abebooks.com).  In Nashville, I can spend an afternoon perusing the racks at McKays Used Books and Goodwill. 

 

Favorite Art Books

1. How to Paint in 5 Steps and Unleash your Creative Spirit! by susan elizabeth jones, 2018
2. Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often by Carol Marine, 2014
3. Guide to Landscape Painting by John Carlson, 1929
4. Hensche on Painting, by John W. Robichaux, 1997
5. Hawthorne on Painting, by Mrs. Charles W. Hawthorne, 1938
6. The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds, 2003
7. The Color Kittens by Little Golden Book

 

Favorite Illustrated Travel and Nature Journaling Books

1. Very Charleston, Very New Orleans, and Very Washington, DC, by Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
2. Queen Victoria's Sketchbook, by Marina Warner, 1979
3. The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, by Edith Holden, 1977
4. France: Inspiration du Jour, by Rae Dunn, 2017
5. Field Notes from Yosemite, by Teresa Jordan, 2002
6. Mr. Boddington's Etiquette, 2018
7. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, by Linda Lear, 2007
8. Trout: An Illustrated History, by James Prosek, 2002
9. Autumn, The Summer Book, and Vineyard Season, by Susan Branch
10. Heart of the Home, by Susan Branch

 

Favorite Living Creatively Books

1. The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, 1992
2. Letters to a Young Artist, by Julia Cameron, 2005
3. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, 2015
4. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey, 2013
5. Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: the Artist who Lived Twice by Barbara Lehman Smith, 2010
6. The Daily Book of Art by Colin Gilbert, et al, 2009
7. The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe, 2006
8. Color: a Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay, 2002
9. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), Andy Warhol, 1977
   
10. Painting as a Pastime by Winston S. Churchill, 1932
11. Degas, Imprssionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade, by Simon Kelly and Esther Bell
12. The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri, 1923 

 

 

Favorite Southern Books

1. True Prep, by Lisa Birnbach, 2010
2. What Southern Women Know that Every Woman Should by Rhonda Rich, 2000
3. What Southern Women know about Flirting, by Rhonda Rich, 2005

 

 

Favorite French Books

1. The French Beauty Solution by Mathilde Thomas, 2015
2. Bonjour, Happiness! by Jamie Cat Callon, 2011
3. Fodor's Exploring France
4. The Grown-Ups' Guide to Living in France, by Rosanne Knorr, 2000
5. A Kitchen in France: A Year of Cooking in my Farmhouse,by Mimi Thorisson, 2014
6. Lessons from Madame Chic, by Jennifer L. Scott, 2011

 

 

Favorite Non-Fiction Books

1. The Downton Abbey Lexicon Primer, 2020 
2. Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin, 2015
3. The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, 2009
4. Churchill on Courage by Frederick Talbott, 1996
5. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, 2007

 

 

Favorite Fiction Books

1. Any novel by Faith Baldwin, especially those written between 1937-1950
2. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, 2008
   
3. Whistling Dixie in a Nor'Easter, by Lisa Patton, 2010
4. Yankee Doodle Dixie, by Lisa Patton, 2012
5. Speaking Southern as a Second Language, by Lisa Patton, 2014
6. Rush, by Lisa Patton, 2018
7. Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher

 

 

Favorite Cook Books

1. Lost and Vintage Recipes, by Amy Traverso
2. American Cake, by Anne Byrn
3. A Kitchen in France: A Year of Cooking in my Farmhouse, by Mimi Thorisson, 2014
4. P. Allen Smith's Seasonal Recipes from the Garden, by P. Allen Smith, 2010
5. Mastering the Art of French Cooking, by Julia Child