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?