“What are the Best Art & Photography books of 2018?” We aggregated 17 year-end lists and ranked the 283 unique titles by how many times they appeared in an attempt to answer that very question!
There are thousands of year-end lists released every year and like we do in our weekly Best Book articles, we wanted to see which books appear the most. The top 17 books, all of which appeared on 2 or more “Best Coffe Table” Book lists, are ranked below with images, summaries, and links for more information or to purchase. The remaining 250+ books, as well as the top book lists are at the bottom of the page.
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You can also take a look at our Best Art/Photography books from last year as well as all the other Best 2017 articles!
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Instant Andy: Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol A picture means I know where I was every minute. That s why I take pictures. It s a visual diary. – Andy WarholAndy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in collaboration with theAndy Warhol Foundation, this book features hundreds of these instant photos, many of them never seen before.Portraits of celebrities such asMick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Yves Saint Laurent, Pele, Debbie Harryare included alongside images of Warhol s entourage and high life, landscapes, and still lifes from Cabbage Patch dolls to the iconic soup cans. Often raw and impromptu, the Polaroids document Warhol s era like Instagram captures our own, offering a unique record of the life, world, and vision behind the Pop Art maestro and modernist giant.
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Featuring rare outtakes from over 100 photoshoots alongside interviews and essays from industry legends, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop takes readers on a chronological journey from old-school to alternative hip-hop and from analog to digital photography. The ultimate companion for music and photography enthusiasts, Contact High is the definitive history of hip-hop’s early days, celebrating the artists that shaped the iconic album covers, t-shirts and posters beloved by hip-hop fans today.
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When a young boy visits his grandfather, their lack of a common language leads to confusion, frustration, and silence. But as they sit down to draw together, something magical happens-with a shared love of art and storytelling, the two form a bond that goes beyond words. With spare, direct text by Minh Lê and luminous illustrations by Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat, this stirring picturebook about reaching across barriers will be cherished for years to come.
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Best known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for Flowers for Lisa emerged when Morell gave his wife, Lisa, a photograph of flowers on her birthday. “Flowers are part of a long tradition of still life in art,” writes Morell. “Precisely because flowers are such a conventional subject, I felt a strong desire to describe them in new, inventive ways.” With nods to the work of Jan Brueghel, Édouard Manet, Georgia O’Keeffe, René Magritte, and others, Morell does just that; the images are as innovative as they are arresting.
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Based on ten years of research and a vast cache of primary sources located in archives in Warsaw, Paris, London, New York, and Washington, D.C., Alan Walker’s monumental Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times is the most comprehensive biography of the great Polish composer to appear in English. Walker’s work is a corrective biography, intended to dispel the many myths and legends that continue to surround Chopin. Fryderyk Chopin is an intimate look into a dramatic life; of particular focus are Chopin’s childhood and youth in Poland, which are brought into line with the latest scholarly findings, and Chopin’s romantic life with George Sand, with whom he lived for nine years.
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Hey, Kiddo is the graphic memoir of author-illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka. Raised by his colorful grandparents, who adopted him because his mother was an incarcerated heroin addict, Krosoczka didn’t know his father’s name until he saw his birth certificate when registering for a school ski trip. Hey, Kiddo traces Krosoczka’s search for his father, his difficult interactions with his mother, his day-to-day life with his grandparents, and his path to becoming an artist. To date, nearly one million people have viewed Krosoczka’s TED Talk about his experience.
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Imagine John Yoko tells the story of John & Yoko’s life, work and relationship during this intensely creative period. It transports readers to home and working environments showcasing Yoko’s closely guarded archive of photos and artifacts, using artfully compiled narrative film stills, and featuring digitally rendered maps, floor plans and panoramas that recreate the interiors in evocative detail. John & Yoko introduce each chapter and song; Yoko also provides invaluable additional commentary and a preface.
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Guardian journalist and photographer Oliver Wainwright takes us on an eye-opening tour behind closed doors in the most secretive country in the world, revealing that past the grand stone façades lie lavish wonder-worlds of marble and mosaic, coffered ceilings, and crystal chandeliers, along with new interiors in dazzling color palettes. Discover the palatial reading rooms of the Grand People’s Study House, and peer inside the locker rooms of the recently renovated Rungrado May Day Stadium, ready to host a FIFA World Cup that will never come.
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Graciela Iturbide was born in México City in 1942, the oldest of 13 children. When tragedy struck Iturbide as a young mother, she turned to photography for solace and understanding. From then on Iturbide embarked on a photographic journey that has taken her throughout her native México, from the Sonora Desert to Juchitán to Frida Kahlo’s bathroom, to the United States, India, and beyond. Photographic is a symbolic, poetic, and deeply personal graphic biography of this iconic photographer. Iturbide’s journey will excite readers of all ages as well as budding photographers, who will be inspired by her resolve, talent, and curiosity.
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The first monograph on Snarkitecture, a New York-based collaborative and innovative design studio with an introduction by Maria Cristina Didero Fast becoming one of the world’s most sought-after studios, Snarkitecture has designed installations, architecture, products, and furniture for a diverse range of clients including COS, Kith, Calvin Klein, the New Museum, Kartell, and Beats by Dr. Dre. This book presents more than 70 of their projects and investigates how its founders, artist Daniel Arsham and architect Alex Mustonen, work at the interface between their disciplines to come up with some of the most beguiling and fascinating designs seen in recent years.
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The Art of Reading presents New York photographer Lawrence Schwartzwald’s (born 1953) candid images of readers, made between 2001 and 2017. Partly inspired by André Kertész’s On Reading(1971), Schwartzwald’s subjects are mostly average New Yorkers―sunbathers, a bus driver, shoeshine men, subway passengers, denizens of bookshops and cafes―but also artists (most notably Amy Winehouse at Manhattan’s now-closed all-night diner Florent).
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This magnificent volume features a remarkable collection of largely unseen photographs of the Beat Generation by renowned Magnum photographer Burt Glinn. This amazing, untouched treasure trove of images was discovered when Reel Art Press was working with Burt Glinn’s widow, Elena, on a larger retrospective of Glinn’s work. Archived with the negatives was a short essay by Jack Kerouac entitled “And This Is The Beat Nightlife of New York,” which is published here alongside the photographs. The book features black-and-white shots, and also—uniquely, for images of this era—more than 70 in color. An extremely rare find, these photographs capture the raw energy of the Beat Generation in a way that has never been seen before in print.
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In this little gem of a book Patrick Parrish, of the eponymous Patrick Parrish Gallery in New York, offers advice, stories, gossip, and pointers on how to go about acquiring top-quality art and design from flea markets all the way up to the finest auction houses in the world. With over 25 years of hard-won experience in the trenches as a picker, collector, and dealer he tells you what to do, what not to do, and how to negotiate the often-confusing labyrinths that international galleries, auction houses, and even flea markets can present.
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The is the most ingenious collection of New Yorker cartoons published in book form, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a prodigious, slip-cased, two-volume, 1,600-page A-to-Z curation of cartoons from the magazine from 1924 to the present. Mankoff–for two decades the cartoon editor of the New Yorker–organizes nearly 3,000 cartoons into more than 250 categories of recurring New Yorker themes and visual tropes, including cartoons on banana peels, meeting St. Peter, being stranded on a desert island, snowmen, lion tamers, Adam and Eve, the Grim Reaper, and dogs, of course. The result is hilarious and Mankoff’s commentary throughout adds both depth and whimsy. The collection also includes a foreword by New Yorker editor David Remnick. This is stunning gift for the millions of New Yorker readers and anyone looking for some humor in the evolution of social commentary.
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Transcendental Concord documents the spirit of Transcendentalism, the literary and philosophical movement that arose in the mid-19thcentury. While the circle of Transcendentalists in New England was wide, at its center was a core group that lived in Concord, Massachusetts.Bronson Alcott and daughter Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson,Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau lived within a few miles of each other for nearly 20 years, regularlymeeting in each other’s homes and on the paths of Walden Woods todiscuss their writings and beliefs. In the course of a year and in every season North-Carolina based photographer Lisa McCarty photographed thesites where these Transcendentalists lived and wrote in Concord.McCarty’s parallel reverence for the natural world is evident in herphotographs which point to large and small variations in environment,season and light. McCarty uses long exposures and camera movement inorder to capture these variations. Transcendental Concord payshomage to Transcendentalism not only in capturing a shared landscape,but in McCarty’s technique: her keen observation of natural phenomenaand openness to experimentation and chance.
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Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness is the long-awaited monograph from one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. The book features over ninety of Muholi’s evocative self-portraits, each image drafted from material props in Muholi’s immediate environment. A powerfully arresting collection of work, Muholi’s radical statements of identity, race, and resistance are a direct response to contemporary and historical racisms. As Muholi states, “I am producing this photographic document to encourage individuals in my community to be brave enough to occupy spaces―brave enough to create without fear of being vilified. . . . To teach people about our history, to rethink what history is all about, to reclaim it for ourselves―to encourage people to use artistic tools such as cameras as weapons to fight back.
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Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world’s first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting.
| # | Books | Authors | Lists |
| 18 | 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List | James Mustich | Folio |
| 19 | 21 Discounts Seniors Get Only if They Know | Reader’s Digest | |
| 20 | A Completely True Work of Fiction: Jim Goldberg’s Raised By Wolves | Magnum Photos | |
| 21 | A Detroit Nocturne | DAVE JORDANO | Elizabeth Avedon Journal |
| 22 | AGENTS OF FAITH: VOTIVE OBJECTS IN TIME AND PLACE | New York Times | |
| 23 | Albert Namatjira | National Gallery of Australia | Readings |
| 24 | Ali | Reader’s Digest | |
| 25 | ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS: A BIOGRAPHY OF ROCK HUDSON | Kirkus | |
| 26 | Almost True | STEVEN BOLLMAN | Elizabeth Avedon Journal |
| 27 | American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin | Terrance Hayes | MutualArt |
| 28 | An Atmosphere of Fear: Matt Black on Documenting Migration | Magnum Photos | |
| 29 | And Time Unfolds | PDN | |
| 30 | Animal Kingdom: A Collection of Portraits | Amazon | |
| 31 | Anni Albers | Publishers Weekly | |
| 32 | Annie Leibovitz Portraits 2005-2016 | Reader’s Digest | |
| 33 | Apollo: VII – XVII | Amazon | |
| 34 | Approximate Joy: How Christopher Anderson’s imagined future shaped a vision of the present | Magnum Photos | |
| 35 | Arctic: New Frontier | Elizabeth Avedon Journal | |
| 36 | As it may be | Magnum Photos | |
| 37 | Astounding: John W Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard and the Golden Age of Science Fiction | Alec Nevala-Lee | Folio |
| 38 | ATLAS OF BRUTALIST ARCHITECTURE | New York Times | |
| 39 | Bauhaus | Dwell | |
| 40 | Be Bold: Bespoke Modern Interiors | Dwell | |
| 41 | Beaches | Reader’s Digest | |
| 42 | Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography | Booklist 1 | |
| 43 | Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery | Booklist 2 | |
| 44 | BETWEEN WORLDS: THE ART OF BILL TRAYLOR | New York Times | |
| 45 | Beyond the Myth: The Legacy of May ’68 | Magnum Photos | |
| 46 | Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany | Amazon | |
| 47 | BING CROSBY: SWINGING ON A STAR: THE WAR YEARS, 1940-1946 | Kirkus | |
| 48 | Blood Water Paint | Booklist 2 | |
| 49 | Blue | Laura Vaccaro Seeger | NPR |
| 50 | Bob Langrish’s World of Horses: A Master Photographer’s Lifelong Quest to Capture the Most Magnificent Horses in the World | Publishers Weekly | |
| 51 | Book Towns: Forty-Five Paradises of the Printed Word | Publishers Weekly | |
| 52 | Born To Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life And Mysterious Genius Of Edward Gorey | Mark Dery | NPR |
| 53 | Born to Ice | Amazon | |
| 54 | Brand by Hand: Blisters, Calluses, and Clients: A Life in Design | Amazon | |
| 55 | Brave Enough | Booklist 2 | |
| 56 | Bruce Gilden’s Forgotten Portrait of Syracuse, New York | Magnum Photos | |
| 57 | BRUCE NAUMAN: DISAPPEARING ACTS | New York Times | |
| 58 | Bruce Nauman: Mindfuck | Philip Larrat-Smith | MutualArt |
| 59 | Bruce Springsteen: From Asbury Park, to Born to Run, to Born in the USA | Publishers Weekly | |
| 60 | California Crazy: American Pop Architecture | Dwell | |
| 61 | CAPTIVE AUDIENCE: ON LOVE AND REALITY TV | Kirkus | |
| 62 | Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World | Booklist 2 | |
| 63 | CHALK: THE ART AND ERASURE OF CY TWOMBLY | Kirkus | |
| 64 | Che: A Revolutionary Life | Jon Lee Anderson, illustrated | NPR |
| 65 | CHINESE MOVIE MAGAZINES: FROM CHARLIE CHAPLIN TO CHAIRMAN MAO 1921-1951 | New York Times | |
| 66 | Chromatopia | David Coles | Readings |
| 67 | Civilization: The Way We Live Now | William A. Ewing & Holly Roussell | Readings |
| 68 | Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s | Leslie S. Klinger | Folio |
| 69 | Coyote Doggirl by Lisa Hanawalt (available here) | NYLON | |
| 70 | Creative Quest | Questlove | NPR |
| 71 | CURATORIAL ACTIVISM: TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF CURATING | New York Times | |
| 72 | D C-T! by Joana Avillez and Molly Young (available here) | NYLON | |
| 73 | DAEMON VOICES: ON STORIES AND STORYTELLING | Kirkus | |
| 74 | David LaChapelle: Lost and Found Part I Book | OPUMO | |
| 75 | David Levinthal: War, Myth, Desire | PDN | |
| 76 | Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply | PDN | |
| 77 | DEANA LAWSON: AN APERTURE MONOGRAPH | New York Times | |
| 78 | DECODING MIMBRES PAINTING: ANCIENT CERAMICS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST | New York Times | |
| 79 | Depardon in America | Magnum Photos | |
| 80 | Design for Plebes and Royalty Alike | Publishers Weekly | |
| 81 | Donald: The Book | Reader’s Digest | |
| 82 | Dream Design Live | Dwell | |
| 83 | Dreamers | Yuyi Morales | NPR |
| 84 | Dreamscapes | Publishers Weekly | |
| 85 | Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado | PDN | |
| 86 | Edward Weston Book | OPUMO | |
| 87 | El Libro Supremo de la Suerte | PDN | |
| 88 | Elements of Architecture | Dwell | |
| 89 | Everything in the Universe is Unfinished | Yoko Ono | MutualArt |
| 90 | Everything You Need For A Treehouse | Carter Higgins, illustrated | NPR |
| 91 | Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles | Mark Russell, illustrated | NPR |
| 92 | Fashion Climbing: A Memoir with Photographs | Booklist 1 | |
| 93 | Feel Free: Essays | Zadie Smith | NPR |
| 94 | Fish Town: Down the Road to Louisiana’s Vanishing Fishing Communities | PDN | |
| 95 | FLIGHTS | New York Times | |
| 96 | Forever Or A Day | Sarah Jacoby | NPR |
| 97 | FORMS OF ENCHANTMENT: WRITINGS ON ART AND ARTISTS | Kirkus | |
| 98 | Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up | Claire Wilcox & Circe Henestrosa | Readings |
| 99 | From Civil Strife to Global Superpower: 80 Years of Magnum in China | Magnum Photos | |
| 100 | GARY INDIANA: VILE DAYS: THE VILLAGE VOICE ART COLUMNS 1985-1988 | New York Times | |
| 101 | GIUSEPPE PENONE: THE INNER LIFE OF FORMS | New York Times | |
| 102 | GOODBYE TO TENTH STREET: A NOVEL | New York Times | |
| 103 | Green Architecture | Dwell | |
| 104 | H+ | PDN | |
| 105 | Hail the Dark Lioness | Elizabeth Avedon Journal | |
| 106 | HAIRY WHO? 1966-1969 | New York Times | |
| 107 | Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination | Publishers Weekly | |
| 108 | Henri Cartier-Bresson: Principles of a Practice | Magnum Photos | |
| 109 | HILMA AF KLINT: PAINTINGS FOR THE FUTURE | New York Times | |
| 110 | Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits | PDN | |
| 111 | History of the World Map by Map | Publishers Weekly | |
| 112 | Homes for Our Time: Contemporary Houses around the World | Dwell | |
| 113 | Hudson Modern: Residential Landscapes | Dwell | |
| 114 | Humans of New York: Stories | Reader’s Digest | |
| 115 | I Am Inuit | PDN | |
| 116 | Iconic Magazine Covers: The Inside Stories Told By the People Who Made Them | Ian Birch | Folio |
| 117 | Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art | Booklist 1 | |
| 118 | In My Room | Elizabeth Avedon Journal | |
| 119 | Industrial Facility | Dwell | |
| 120 | Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth | Publishers Weekly | |
| 121 | Insiders & Company: The New Artisans of Interior Design | Dwell | |
| 122 | Interior Portraits: At Home With Cultural Pioneers and Creative Mavericks | Dwell | |
| 123 | Isay Weinfeld: An Architect from Brazil | Dwell | |
| 124 | It’s A Gas!: The Allure of the Gas Station | Dwell | |
| 125 | Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter To The World | Ashley Herring Blake | NPR |
| 126 | Japan: The Cookbook | Reader’s Digest | |
| 127 | Jasper | PDN | |
| 128 | Jim Olson: Building, Nature, Art | Dwell | |
| 129 | Joel Meyerowitz: Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective (An Elephant Book) | Amazon | |
| 130 | Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black | Publishers Weekly | |
| 131 | Josef Koudelka: Exiles | Magnum Photos | |
| 132 | Joseph Albers: Interaction | Publishers Weekly | |
| 133 | Kehrer Verlag | Elizabeth Avedon Journal | |
| 134 | Kjeld von Folsach and Jakob Skovgaard-Peterson, The Human Figure in Islamic Art | Joachim Meyer | MutualArt |
| 135 | KNOW THYSELF: WESTERN IDENTITY FROM CLASSICAL GREECE TO THE RENAISSANCE | Kirkus | |
| 136 | Le Corbusier: The Built Work | Dwell | |
| 137 | Leonardo da Vinci. | Booklist 1 | |
| 138 | LINA BO BARDI | New York Times | |
| 139 | Little Big Rooms: New Nurseries and Rooms To Play In | Dwell | |
| 140 | Little: A Novel | Edward Carey | NPR |
| 141 | Littoral Drift + Ecotone | PDN | |
| 142 | Living in the Desert | Phaidon | Readings |
| 143 | Love | Matt de la Peña, illustrated | NPR |
| 144 | Love Colour: Choosing Colours to Live With | Publishers Weekly | |
| 145 | Love That Bunch by Aline Kominsky-Crumb (available here) | NYLON | |
| 146 | Lucian Freud | Publishers Weekly | |
| 147 | Magnum Photographers Explore Home | Magnum Photos | |
| 148 | Manifest | PDN | |
| 149 | Mark Power: Good Morning, America | Magnum Photos | |
| 150 | Martha’s Flowers: A Practical Guide to Growing, Gathering, and Enjoying | Publishers Weekly | |
| 151 | Martin Parr’s Beach Therapy | Magnum Photos | |
| 152 | MASAHISA FUKASE | New York Times | |
| 153 | Massimo Listri: The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries | Reader’s Digest | |
| 154 | May I Come In? | Publishers Weekly | |
| 155 | Mediations | PDN | |
| 156 | Meet Cindy Sherman: Artist, Photographer, Chameleon | Booklist 2 | |
| 157 | Merrie Albion: Landscape Studies of a Small Island | PDN | |
| 158 | Mind The Gap | PDN | |
| 159 | Minding the Store: A Big Story about a Small Business by Julie Gaines and Ben Lenovitz (available here) | NYLON | |
| 160 | Mirka & Georges: A Culinary Affair | Lesley Harding & Kendrah Morgan | Readings |
| 161 | Mistral: The Legendary Wind of Provence | PDN | |
| 162 | Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art | Susan Napier | MutualArt |
| 163 | Moby Dick: The Illustrated Novel | Herman Melville and Anton Lomaev, ill. | Folio |
| 164 | Monster Portraits | Sofia Samatar, illustrated | NPR |
| 165 | Mother and Child | Reader’s Digest | |
| 166 | MURALS OF TIBET | New York Times | |
| 167 | Nashville: Scenes from the New American South | Amazon | |
| 168 | New Shoes | Chris Raschka | NPR |
| 169 | North Korea: The Grand Tour | Magnum Photos | |
| 170 | Notes from the Woodshed | Jack Whitten | MutualArt |
| 171 | Nothing Personal | PDN | |
| 172 | Ocean Liners: A Visual History | Publishers Weekly | |
| 173 | On Abortion: And the Repercussions of Lack of Access | PDN | |
| 174 | One, Two, Three, More | PDN | |
| 175 | Over My Eyes | PDN | |
| 176 | Pantone: The 20th Century in Color | Reader’s Digest | |
| 177 | Paolo Pellegrin: Un’antologia | Magnum Photos | |
| 178 | Part of It: Comics and Confessions by Ariel Schrag (available here) | NYLON | |
| 179 | Passing for Human by Liana Finck (available here) | NYLON | |
| 180 | Pasta for Nightingales: A 17th-Century Handbook of Bird-care and Folklore | Publishers Weekly | |
| 181 | Pattern Design | Elizabeth Wilhide | Readings |
| 182 | Paul Outerbridge Book | OPUMO | |
| 183 | PINE | PDN | |
| 184 | Pit Bull Flower Power | Publishers Weekly | |
| 185 | PLANET FUNNY: HOW COMEDY TOOK OVER OUR CULTURE | Kirkus | |
| 186 | Point of View: Me, New York City, and the Punk Scene | Amazon | |
| 187 | Pompeii Archive | PDN | |
| 188 | POSING MODERNITY: THE BLACK MODEL FROM MANET AND MATISSE TO TODAY | New York Times | |
| 189 | Power and the Camera: Gregory Halpern on Intuition, Reflection and Representation | Magnum Photos | |
| 190 | Prince Street Girls | Magnum Photos | |
| 191 | Priya Ramrakha | PDN | |
| 192 | PROUST’S DUCHESS: HOW THREE CELEBRATED WOMEN CAPTURED THE IMAGINATION OF FIN-DE-SIÈCLE PARIS | Kirkus | |
| 193 | Rafal Milach Uses Visual Metaphors to Deconstruct the System | Magnum Photos | |
| 194 | Re-membrance of the Remembrance | Elizabeth Avedon Journal | |
| 195 | Remembering Diana: A Life in Photographs | Reader’s Digest | |
| 196 | Ren Hang Book | OPUMO | |
| 197 | René Burri: Imaginary Pyramids | Magnum Photos | |
| 198 | RENÉ D | New York Times | |
| 199 | Resurrection City, 1968 | PDN | |
| 200 | Richard Kalvar: Photo Poche | Magnum Photos | |
| 201 | RICHARD PRINCE: HIGH TIMES | New York Times | |
| 202 | Rivages | Magnum Photos | |
| 203 | Romance Was Born | Anna Plunkett, Luke Sales & Georgina Safe | Readings |
| 204 | Room to Dream . | Booklist 1 | |
| 205 | Sabrina by Nick Drnaso (available here) | NYLON | |
| 206 | Sacred Spaces: The Awe-Inspiring Architecture of Churches and Cathedrals | Publishers Weekly | |
| 207 | Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings | PDN | |
| 208 | Series of Dreams | Russell Joslin | Elizabeth Avedon Journal |
| 209 | Serpent in the Wilderness | ANDY RICHTER | Elizabeth Avedon Journal |
| 210 | She Disappeared into Complete Silence | Elizabeth Avedon Journal | |
| 211 | Shoplifter!: New Retail Architecture and Brand Spaces | Dwell | |
| 212 | Silver Lake Drive | PDN | |
| 213 | Smithsonian Flora: Inside the Secret World of Plants | Publishers Weekly | |
| 214 | Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art | Christian Viveros Faune and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro | MutualArt |
| 215 | Social Practices | Chris Kraus | MutualArt |
| 216 | Sohrab Hura on his Dilemmas Photographing the Marginalized | Magnum Photos | |
| 217 | Sory Sanlé: Volta Photo | PDN | |
| 218 | Space Atlas, Second Edition: Mapping the Universe and Beyond | Reader’s Digest | |
| 219 | Specimens of Hair: The Curious Collection of Peter A. Browne | Publishers Weekly | |
| 220 | Stanley Kubrick Photographs: Through a Different Lens | Amazon | |
| 221 | STEALING THE SHOW: HOW WOMEN ARE REVOLUTIONIZING TELEVISION | Kirkus | |
| 222 | Supergroup | Richard Prince | MutualArt |
| 223 | Supersonic: The Design and Lifestyle of Concorde | Amazon | |
| 224 | Sweet Life, Chapter 2 – Look It’s Getting Sunny Outside!!! | Magnum Photos | |
| 225 | Tales of the Genji: A Visual Companion | Publishers Weekly | |
| 226 | Texas Made/Texas Modern: The House and the Land | Dwell | |
| 227 | THANKS A LOT MR. KIBBLEWHITE: MY STORY | Kirkus | |
| 228 | The American Fraternity: An Illustrated Ritual Manual | PDN | |
| 229 | The Art of the Cheese Plate | Reader’s Digest | |
| 230 | The Art of the Fishing Fly | Publishers Weekly | |
| 231 | The Artful Evolution Of Hal & Mal’s | Malcolm White, illustrated | NPR |
| 232 | The Assassination Of Brangwain Spurge | M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin | NPR |
| 233 | The Big Book of the Continental Op | Dashiell Hammett | Folio |
| 234 | The Book of the Bird: Birds in Art | Angus Hyland and Kendra Wilson | MutualArt |
| 235 | The Bucket List: 1000 Adventures Big & Small | Reader’s Digest | |
| 236 | THE CHIAROSCURO WOODCUT IN RENAISSANCE ITALY | New York Times | |
| 237 | THE COLLECTOR: THE STORY OF SERGEI SHCHUKIN AND HIS LOST MASTERPIECES | New York Times | |
| 238 | The Dark Side of the Boom | Georgina Adam | MutualArt |
| 239 | The Dragon Slayer: Folktales From Latin America | Jaime Hernandez | NPR |
| 240 | The Drunken Botanist | Reader’s Digest | |
| 241 | The Electric State | Simon Stalenhag | NPR |
| 242 | The Eye: How the World’s Most Influential Creative Directors Develop Their Vision | Amazon | |
| 243 | The Frame-Up | Booklist 2 | |
| 244 | The Global Economy as You’ve Never Seen It: 99 Ingenious Infographics That Put It All Together | Publishers Weekly | |
| 245 | The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics | Publishers Weekly | |
| 246 | The Great Jazz and Pop Vocal Albums | Booklist 1 | |
| 247 | The Heavens | BARBARA BOSWORTH | Elizabeth Avedon Journal |
| 248 | The Illusion of Purpose | Elizabeth Avedon Journal | |
| 249 | The Incredible True Story of Blondy Baruti: My Unlikely Journey from the Congo to Hollywood | Booklist 1 | |
| 250 | The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga | PDN | |
| 251 | THE LOVE OF PAINTING: GENEALOGY OF A SUCCESS MEDIUM | New York Times | |
| 252 | The Magnum Digest: December 14, 2018 | Magnum Photos | |
| 253 | The Middle Ages in 50 Objects | Publishers Weekly | |
| 254 | The Minard System: The Complete Statistical Graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard | Amazon | |
| 255 | The Prince And The Dressmaker | Jen Wang | NPR |
| 256 | The Splendor of Birds: Art and Photographs From National Geographic | Amazon | |
| 257 | The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries | Dwell | |
| 258 | The Writer’s Map: An Atlas Of Imaginary Lands | Huw Lewis-Jones | NPR |
| 259 | These Truths: A History of The United States | Jill Lapore | Folio |
| 260 | They Can’t Kill Us until They Kill Us | Booklist 1 | |
| 261 | They Say Blue | Jillian Tamaki | NPR |
| 262 | Thomas O’Brien: Library House | Dwell | |
| 263 | Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall’s Life and Art | Booklist 2 | |
| 264 | Tigers & Tea With Toppy | Barbara Kerley and Rhoda Knight Kalt, illustrated | NPR |
| 265 | To Survive on This Shore | PDN | |
| 266 | Together, Alone: Jean Gaumy Discusses Solidarity and Solitude as he Joins the Académie des Beaux Arts | Magnum Photos | |
| 267 | Tom Ford | Reader’s Digest | |
| 268 | Unravelled: Contemporary Knit Art | Charlotte Vannier | Readings |
| 269 | Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music | Publishers Weekly | |
| 270 | Urban Sanctuary | Anna Johnson & Richard Black | Readings |
| 271 | Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba | Magnum Photos | |
| 272 | Volume: Let Europe’s Finest Style Experts Spice Up Your Home | Dwell | |
| 273 | War is Only Half the Story: Ten Years of the Aftermath Project | PDN | |
| 274 | We are Indestructible | PDN | |
| 275 | WE SHALL OVERCOME: PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS OF NASHVILLE DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA | New York Times | |
| 276 | Where I Find Myself: A Lifetime Retrospective | PDN | |
| 277 | Whiskey Cocktails | Reader’s Digest | |
| 278 | WHITEWALLING: ART, RACE & PROTEST IN 3 ACTS | New York Times | |
| 279 | Why Art? | Eleanor Davis | NPR |
| 280 | Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal (available here) | NYLON | |
| 281 | Writers and Their Cats | Reader’s Digest | |
| 282 | Yayoi Kasuma: Festival of Life | Reader’s Digest | |
| 283 | Yo Soy Fidel | PDN |
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| Amazon | Best art and photography books of 2018 |
| Booklist 1 | Booklist Online Top Art Books 2018 |
| Booklist 2 | Booklist Online Top Art Books For Youth 2018 |
| Dwell | The Best Design Books of 2018 |
| Elizabeth Avedon Journal | BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS OF 2018 : ROUND-UP PART II |
| Folio | The Best Books for Print Lovers, 2018 A holiday gift guide for those who believe in the lasting power of print. |
| Kirkus | Best Arts & Entertainment Books of 2018 |
| Magnum Photos | Magnum’s Books of 2018 |
| MutualArt | The Best Art Books of 2018 |
| New York Times | The Best Art Books of 2018The Best Art Books of 2018 |
| NPR | Our Guide To 2018’s Great Reads |
| NYLON | The Best Illustrated Books Of 2018 |
| OPUMO | 5 Of The Best Photography Books For Your Coffee Table |
| PDN | Notable Photo Books Of 2018 |
| Publishers Weekly | Holiday Gift Guide 2018: Illustrated Books |
| Reader’s Digest | The 20 Best Coffee Table Books to Gift This Year |
| Readings | Readings Best Art and Design Books of 2018 |
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