📖 The Pretender by Jo Harkin 🖼️ Portrait of a Boy with a Falcon, oil on canvas by Wallerant Vaillant, c. 1600s

📖 Moderation by Elaine Castillo 🖼️ Admiration, oil on canvas by Vittorio Reggianini, date unknown

📖 All’s Well by Mona Awad 🖼️ Mischief and Repose, oil on canvas by John William Godward, c. 1895

📖 If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga 🖼️ A Bischari Warrior, oil on canvas by Jean-Léon Gérôme, c. 1872

📖 Off With Her Head by Eleanor Herman 🖼️ Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution, oil on canvas by William Hamilton, c. 1794

📖 The Doloriad by Missouri Williams 🖼️ Woman Tuning a Lute, oil on canvas by Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1624

📖 Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh 🖼️ Still Life with Bottle, Glass and Loaf, oil on canvas by an imitator of Jean-Siméon Chardin, c. 1800s

📖 The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li 🖼️ A Dog with a dead Goose and Peacock (A Study of Game and Fruit), oil on canvas(?) by Jan Weenix, c. 1700

📖 A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers 🖼️ Ghismunda, oil on canvas by Bernardino Mei, c. 1650

📖 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 🖼️ Mona Lisa, oil on panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-1506

📖 Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh 🖼️ Agnus Dei, oil on canvas by Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1635-1640

📖 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 🖼️ The Goldfinch, oil on panel by Carel Fabritius, c. 1654

📖 Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda 🖼️ Boy with a Basket of Fruit, oil on canvas by Caravaggio, c. 1593

📖 These Days by Lucy Caldwell 🖼️ Woman in the Window, oil on canvas by Alberto Morrocco, c. 1953

📖 Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan 🖼️ After the Ball, oil on canvas by Ramon Casas i Carbo, c. 1899

📖 Dream State by Eric Puchner 🖼️ The Teton Range oil on canvas by Thomas Moran, c. 1897

📖 A Good Person by Kirsten King 🖼️ Love’s Shadow, oil on panel by Frederick Sandys, c. 1867

📖 Hungerstone by Kat Dunn 🖼️ The Nightmare, oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1781

📖 The Longest Way to Eat a Melon by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross 🖼️ Kittens and Snail, oil on canvas by Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville, undated

📖 Indelicacy by Amina Cain 🖼️ Margaretha van Haexbergen (1614-1676) by Gerard ter Borch the Younger, c.1666-1667

📖 Trespasses by Louise Kennedy 🖼️ In a Bar, oil on canvas by Frederick William Elwell, c. 1943

📖 The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell 🖼️ Lucrezia de’ Medici (1545-1561), oil on panel by Alessandro Allori, c. 1560

📖 Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian 🖼️ The Swing, oil on canvas by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1767

📖 Among Friends by Hal Ebbott 🖼️ Life During Wartime, oil on linen by Bo Bartlett, c. 2018

📖 The Capital Of Dreams by Heather O'Neill 🖼️ Mother and son in the garden, chromolithograph after a drawing by Hugo Bürkner, c. 1878

📖 Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 🖼️ Girl with a Pearl Earring, oil on canvas by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1665

📖 To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara 🖼️ Iokepa, Hawaiian Fisher Boy, oil on canvas by Hubert Vos, c. 1898

📖 My Year Of Rest And Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 🖼️ Portrait of a Young Woman in White, oil on canvas by an anonymous artist (Circle of Jacques-Louis David), c. 1798