ForYourArt asks artists and writers to create handwritten lists of timeless, influential books as part of our ongoing project Everbooks.
Everbooks by Mary Weatherford
Margaret Weatherford, Car Trouble, 2012
'an unfinished and unpublished novel'
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, 1883
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 1933
M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf, 1942
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy, 1990
Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be, 1952
Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1946
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869
Patricia Highsmith [Claire Morgan], The Price of Salt, 1952
Angela Y. Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism, 1988
Mary Weatherford is a painter that lives and works in Los Angeles.
ForYourArt and Goodreads introduced Everbooks at the 2016 Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair. Through Everbooks, ForYourArt takes ephemeral and privately shared passions and circulates them with a broader public in order to continue our mission to bridge everyday life and art.