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Frank Chimero is a successful designer, illustrator, and author based in New York. His clients range from Nike to NPR and his work has been featured in Monocle, The Atlantic, Time, Slate and The New Yorker.

books recommended by Frank Chimero

Last Updated Jan 31, 2024

Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

Principles

Principles

Ray Dalio

Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits

James Clear

The War of Art

The War of Art

Steven Pressfield

Mindset

Mindset

Carol S. Dweck

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Richard P. Feynman

Essentialism

Essentialism

Greg McKeown

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Checklist Manifesto

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande

Deep Work

Deep Work

Cal Newport

The Effective Executive

The Effective Executive

Peter F. Drucker

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The ONE Thing

The ONE Thing

Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

Just Kids

Just Kids

Patti Smith

Flow

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The Odyssey

The Odyssey

Homer

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Power Broker

The Power Broker

Robert A. Caro

The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway

Lolita

Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Lost Connections

Lost Connections

Johann Hari

East of Eden

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

The Hidden Life of Trees

The Hidden Life of Trees

Peter Wohlleben

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera

Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

Managing Oneself

Managing Oneself

Peter Drucker

Radical Acceptance

Radical Acceptance

Tara Brach

Why Buddhism is True

Why Buddhism is True

Robert Wright

The Trial

The Trial

Franz Kafka

The Gift

The Gift

Lewis Hyde

Middlemarch

Middlemarch

George Eliot

The Swerve

The Swerve

Stephen Greenblatt

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez

Do the Work

Do the Work

Steven Pressfield

The Fire Next Time

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

Out of Your Mind

Out of Your Mind

Alan Watts

Upstream

Upstream

Mary Oliver

Ways of Seeing

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

Selected Stories

Selected Stories

Anton Chekhov

Boom Town

Boom Town

Sam Anderson

Gilead

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson

A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

A Wizard of Earthsea

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

Last Chance to See

Last Chance to See

Douglas Adams

Play It As It Lays

Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion

The Snow Leopard

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

Lincoln in the Bardo

Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders

Rising from the Plains

Rising from the Plains

John McPhee

Gutenberg

Gutenberg

John Man

Starting Point: 1979-1996

Starting Point: 1979-1996

Hayao Miyazaki

The Three Marriages

The Three Marriages

David Whyte

Augustus

Augustus

John Williams

Art and Fear

Art and Fear

David Bayles & Ted Orland

Tehanu

Tehanu

Ursula K. Le Guin

Painting as a Pastime

Painting as a Pastime

Winston Churchill

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard

The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard

Joe Brainard

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ballad

Ballad

Blexbolex

To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

On Balance

On Balance

Adam Phillips

The Moth Snowstorm

The Moth Snowstorm

Michael McCarthy

Baron in the Trees

Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino

A Philosophy of Walking

A Philosophy of Walking

Frédéric Gros

Victory

Victory

Joseph Conrad

The Word for World is Forest

The Word for World is Forest

Ursula K. Le Guin

River of Shadow

River of Shadow

Rebecca Solnit

The Lathe of Heaven

The Lathe of Heaven

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Emigrants

The Emigrants

W.G. Sebald

The Rings of Saturn

The Rings of Saturn

W.G. Sebald

Run Studio Run

Run Studio Run

Eli Altman

Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

Patricia Highsmith

If Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could Talk

James Baldwin

A Liberated Mind

A Liberated Mind

Steven C. Hayes

Notes on the Cinematographer

Notes on the Cinematographer

Robert Bresson

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life

Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life

Steven C. Hayes and Spencer Smith

Who Cares?

Who Cares?

Joan C. Tronto

The Door

The Door

Magda Szabó

Shanzhai

Shanzhai

Byung-Chul Han

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez

Working

Working

Robert Caro

How to Cook Your Life

How to Cook Your Life

Dōgen & Kosho Uchiyama

On Kindness

On Kindness

Adam Phillips

The Essays of E.B. White

The Essays of E.B. White

E.B. White

The Last Interview and Other Conversations

The Last Interview and Other Conversations

James Baldwin

Consider the Oyster

Consider the Oyster

M.F.K. Fisher

The Craftsman

The Craftsman

Richard Sennett

Sculpting in Time

Sculpting in Time

Andrei Tarkovsky

An Everlasting Meal

An Everlasting Meal

Tamar Adler

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Lawrence Weschler

Madness, Rack, and Honey

Madness, Rack, and Honey

Mary Ruefle

My Life in France

My Life in France

Julia Child

Other Minds

Other Minds

Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Walk

The Walk

Robert Walser

The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne

The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

The Baron in the Trees

The Baron in the Trees

Italo Calvino

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