Books like Curator by Owen King

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

Inside a secret library run by a god‑like patriarch, orphaned apprentices must battle for control of humanity’s fate when their master disappears.

A harrowing tale of a lonely sociopath who kidnaps a young woman, holding her in a cellar while he persuades her to love him, narrated from both perspectives.

Nell Young, a dedicated cartographer, must uncover the truth behind her estranged father’s death and the existence of a priceless, illegal map collection that ends up threatening her very life.

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, written by Tom Lin, is catalogued as American literature and identified by ISBN 0316542156. Published in the early 21st century, it reflects themes common to contemporary American narratives.

The Ghost Brigades are elite soldiers created from the DNA of dead heroes, tasked with protecting humanity in a universe where rival races have formed an uneasy alliance.

The Netanyahus is a literary work by Joshua Cohen that has been reviewed by The New York Times and is recognized within contemporary American literature.

"The world's most influential contemporary-art curator explores the history and practice of his craft"--

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

Coralie Sardie, a Coney Island mermaid, encounters Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant photographer, and together they uncover mysteries in 1911 New York amid the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

Current art world statistics demonstrate that the fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over: only sixteen percent of this year's Venice Biennale artists were female; only fourteen percent of the work displayed at MoMA in 2016 was by nonwhite artists; only a third of artists represented by U.S. galleries are female, but over two-thirds of students enrolled in art and art-history programs are young women. Arranged in thematic sections focusing on feminism, race, and sexuality, Curatorial Activism examines and illustrates pioneering examples of exhibitions that have broken down boundaries and demonstrated that new approaches are possible, from Linda Nochlin's 'Women Artists' at LACMA in the mid-1970s to Jean-Hubert Martin's 'Carambolages' in 2016 at the Grand Palais in Paris. Including interviews with pioneering curators such as Okwui Enwezor, Linda Nochlin, Jean-Hubert Martin, and Nan Goldin, this volume is both an invaluable source of practical information for those who understand that institutions must be a driving force in this area and a vital source of inspiration for today's expanding new generation of curators.