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)

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)

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)

What Books would you read for a creative book club?