Porto Coffee Creatives Books List (Updated)
This is a continually updated list for the Porto Coffee Creatives Book Club for past and future books.
Next Up - Creative Books by Brazilian and Latin American authors (Jan 2024)
[Photo by Tom Hermans on Unsplash]. Originally published March 2023
Books We've Read
- Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop by Jane Davenport (April 2024)
- How Music Works by David Byrne (Feb 2024)
- Choose a Brasilian or Latin American Author (Jan 2024)
- Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (Nov 2o23)
- The Source by Dr Tara Swart (Oct 2023)
- How To Read A Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch (Aug 2023)
- Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Jul 2023)
- The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera (Jun 2023)
- Rising Strong by Brené Brown (Apr 2023)
- War of Art by Stephen Pressfield (Mar 2023)
- The Artist's Way by Juliet Cameron (Jan 2023)
Books On the Future List
- On Writing by Stephen King (2) / On Writing Well by William Zinsser
- The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry (2)
- Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland ?(2)
- Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers (Margaret Jull Costa (Editor/Translator) (3)
- Hello World: Where Design Meets Life – Alice Rawsthorn (3)
- Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create by Philippa Stanton (EUR, 160 pages)
- Literature Class, Berkeley 1980 - Julio Cortazar (4)?
- The Call of the Tribe by Mario Vargas Llosa, (4, 288 pages)
- Jugaad Innovation, by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu (4, 336 pages)
- The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (4) (or similar in ES/PT/EN)
- Beginners Guide to Dream Interpretation by Clarissa Pinkola Estes (5)
- Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott (5) / The Opposite of Fate: Memoirs of a Writing Life by Amy Tan (5) / The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin (5)
- Nunca Fiques Onde Já Não Estás - Manuel Clemente (6)
- Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino (6)
- A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry by Czesław Miłosz (6)
- Winging It by Emma Isaacs (1)
- El Libro de Las Emociones by Laura Esquivel (1)
- Daring & Disruptive: Unleashing the Entrepreneur by Lisa Messenger (1, 224 pages)
Maybe Maybe Book List
- Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose (USA)
- Steal Like an Artist (Trilogy) by Austin Kleon (USA)
- You Are an Artist by Sara Urist Green (USA)
- Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp (USA)
- Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O'Donohue (EUR)
- Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain by António R. Damásio (EUR)
- The Polymath by Waqas Ahmed (EUR)
- Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin (USA)
- How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy (EUR)
- The Element / Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative (Ken Robinson, EUR, 288 pages)
- Business Sutra: A Very Indian Approach to Management by Devdutt Pattanaik (INT, 446 pages)
- Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono (EUR, 177 pages)
- Manifest by Roxie Nafousi (EUR, 192 pages)
- Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create by Philippa Stanton (EUR, 160 pages)
- Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky (USA, 256 pages)
- Things I have Learned in my life so far by Stefan Sagmeister (EUR, 248 pages)
- How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy (EUR, 160 pages)
- You do You by Danny Gregory (EUR, 262 pages)
- Art Before Breakfast by Danny Gregory (EUR, 160 pages)
- Daring & Disruptive: Unleashing the Entrepreneur by Lisa Messenger (INT, 224 pages)
- The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz (INT, 168 pages) (or other books)
- Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World by Yuval Harari (4, 208 pages)?
- The Art Spirit by Robert Henri (USA)
Finishing Up
What Books would you read for a creative book club?
