“My name is Jane Mount, and I started Ideal Bookshelf in 2008. I believe books make us better, allowing us to visit other people's lives and understand them. And books connect us, to characters, to authors, and, most importantly, to each other.
“I started painting my books, and then my friends’ books just as they lay on their shelves, but I soon realized it was much more interesting to ask them what books they loved, which books made them who they are today.
“That’s when I started Ideal Bookshelf, and began doing custom pieces for people, painting portraits of them from the inside instead of the outside. I find it endlessly fascinating to see what books people pick, and while painting or making a print I think all about what that person might be like, based on their choices.”
BOOKS INCLUDED:
Impounded - Lange
Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
Alone in Berlin - Fallada
And Tango Makes Three - Richardson
The Diary of Anne Frank - Frank
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle - Davis
The Shock Doctrine - Klein
Ms. Marvel - Wilson
Undocumented - Chomsky Parable of the Sower - Butler
The Righteous Mind - Haidt
The Hunger Games - Collins
Brave New World - Huxley
We Should All Be Feminists - Adichie
It Can't Happen Here - Lewis
The Fire Next Time - Baldwin
The Book of Joy - Dalai Lama & Tutu Maus - Spiegelman
Night - Wiesel
Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell
Hope in the Dark - Solnit
The Journey - Sanna
Between the World and Me - Coates
Silent Spring - Carson The Lorax - Seuss
A People's History of the United States - Zinn
