Our editors and contributors select their top art books of this year, featuring Pacita Abad, Nan Goldin, Marina Abramovic, Wendy Red Star, and more.

Erika Doss's new book Spiritual Moderns retells the story of modern art with a more honest look at how religion shaped it.

Kerry James Marshall and Simone Leigh monographs, a visual compendium of Russian-Soviet dachas, the story of a prolific art thief, and more. Hyperallergic readers can take 10% off all titles with discount code HYPERHOLIDAYS23.

Christine Coulson’s sophomore novel One Woman Show explores the formal constraints — and narrative possibilities — of the museum wall label.

Sonya Clark’s latest catalogue, the case for decolonizing drag, Coco Fusco speaks truth to power, a memoir of Brooklyn’s underground performance scene, and more.

In the limited-edition risograph comic Rezbians, Selam shares a solution for the scarcity of queer Indigenous representation in pop culture.

The Book by Design is a real page-turner for people interested in how we came to turn pages.

In his final book, art historian B.N. Goswamy sketches a portrait of the Indian cat, drawing on Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim fables.

Fyodor Savintsev’s photographs of the small wooden cottages capture the aesthetics and ethos of “a slower, more traditional pace of life.”

Recently discovered work demonstrates DeFeo's status as a major contemporary photographer.

The New Brownies' Book promises to provide an experience any child can enjoy, but one designed especially for those of color.

KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell takes readers on a vibrant tour through the life of the filmmaker, activist, and transmedia futurist. 

Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes, Nan Goldin’s new catalogue, a visual biography of Marina Abramovic, and more.

“América invertida” by Uruguayan-Spanish artist Joaquín Torres García was always meant to be a mission statement.

Dyed garments were once treasured items whose colors could take significant time, long distances, and untold fortunes to produce.

A new book explores collector of natural essences Mandy Aftel’s interactive archive of scent in Berkeley.

The curator, writer, and teacher’s memoir winds its way through his four-decade career, arriving, geographically and conceptually, back where he started.

The free, week-long event kicks off on November 12 at Lower Manhattan’s Jewish Heritage Museum.

Amy Kurzweil's graphic memoir reproduces her grandparents’ letters, paintings, and documents.

Robyn Schiff’s Information Desk: An Epic answers questions readers never knew they had.

The artist’s memoir The Way To Be is at times rough around the edges, but it’s worth it.

Sara Raza’s limited curatorial vision empowers dictators and diminishes artists who are making work that has political impact and carries risk.

Conservator Rosa Lowinger reflects on her time working at LACMA in the 1980s in an excerpt from her new memoir, Dwell Time.

A new book explores the many places the artist lived in and how they shaped how she made art.

Hans Janssen’s Piet Mondrian: A Life gives a comprehensive picture of the Dutch artist’s life and character, but leaves some questions unanswered.

The story of a Gee’s Bend quilt, McKenzie Wark’s new memoir, Native photography, motherhood in light of Agnes Martin, and more.

The Artist Who lets readers peer into a postcolonial space through critical engagement and visuals designed to both educate and entertain.

Both the tarot and Carrington’s work are in the midst of a revival that has the world re-evaluating our relationship with nature, the earth, and our place in it.

The texts in Chloe Aridjis’s new collection of stories and essays unspool not via chronological order, but through the strange rationality of dreams.

Andréas Lang’s pictures, now compiled in a new book, convey “what the Turkish state wants people to remember and what it wants them to forget.”

Stitching Love and Loss narrates the history of the Pettway family, the community of Gee’s Bend, and the entwined tragedies of slavery and Indigenous dispossession.

Pasolini's consideration of art included essays, reviews, poems, and autobiographical meditations.

Richard Dorment's upcoming book Warhol After Warhol delves into the sordid history of the Andy Warhol Foundation.

Lippard muses on her early years in New York City, from discovering a love of art writing to encountering Marcel Duchamp when she worked at MoMA’s library.

Truitt was that rare artist whose words are regarded as highly as her works.

And the Walls Became the World All Around provides an accessible visual language to understand Hermann’s ceramic work in book form.

JoAnna Novak is five months pregnant when she decides to spend 18 days in the small town of Taos, New Mexico, to immerse herself in Agnes Martin’s life and work.

While code poetry is still a niche form, a new volume shows how individual voices can come through via a range of languages and styles.

Izzy Pludwinski's new book looks at the evolution of Hebrew calligraphy, from sacred scrolls through modern art and graffiti.

Artist and author Tom Haviv dreams of a one-state solution for the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Jewish-Muslim solidarity, and harmony between Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews.

A new publication contextualizes the historical and contemporary book traditions in South Asia.

Stéphane Breitwieser stole several billion dollars worth of art from more than 150 museums before he was caught in 2001.

Hettie Judah’s important book examines the current climate of discrimination against parents who are also artists.

If the film Nainsukh was a painstaking endeavor to immortalize the titular artist, a new book aims to achieve the same for its singular subject.

Add a few new titles to your art reading list this month, including a Whitfield Lovell catalogue, a guide to making your own paint out of plants, and much more.

Ellie Irons explains how she mindfully harvests plants and transforms them into paints, a labor of love detailed in her how-to guide Feral Hues.

In her new book, Claire Dederer confronts the art that’s made her who she is and the anger, guilt, and love she feels toward flawed artists (including herself).

A new exhibition catalogue illustrates the artist’s dedication to humanity, managing a tender balance between self-expression and true global consciousness.

A Curious Herbal, the first modern edition of Elizabeth Blackwell’s 18th-century botanical guide, grants her the recognition that she has long deserved.

Where I’m Coming From was the first nationally syndicated comics strip by a Black woman cartoonist.