Porto Coffee Creatives Books List (Updated)

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?

Duncan

Duncan

Duncan is an aspiring creative nomad, who publishes random lists and tools for roleplaying games. Hobbies include salsa, games, books, podcasts, languages and history.
It varies. Probably in Europe