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?