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 - The Source by Dr Tara Swart

[Photo by Tom Hermans on Unsplash]. Originally published March 2023

Books We've Read

• 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

• Do Better With Less: Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Growth, by Navi Radjou and Jaideep Prabhu (4)
• Pensar bem. Nos faz bem! by Mario Sergio Cortella (4) (em portugues)
• No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani (4)
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (5)
• 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)
• Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino (6)
• How Music Works by David Byrne (6)
• A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry by Czesław Miłosz (6)
• Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop by  (1)
• Gender Discourse and Desire in the 20th Century Brazilian Womens' Literature by Cristina Ferreira-Pinto (1)
• Winging It by Emma Isaacs (1)
• 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)
• Brain Food by Lisa Moscani (3)
• Take Six: Six Portuguese Women Writers (Margaret Jull Costa (Editor/Translator) (3)
• Hello World: Where Design Meets Life – Alice Rawsthorn (3)

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)
• Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World by Yuval Harari (INT)

Finishing Up

What Books would you read for a creative book club?