BOOKS ON MUSEUM HEIST 

MUSEUM HEIST NON-FICTION

• The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft explores the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, following an art detective investigating the case.

• Master Thieves by Stephen Kurkjian: The Boston Gangsters pulled off the world's greatest art heist; the book delves into the criminal underworld connected to the Gardner Museum heist.

• The Woman Who Stole Vermeer by Anthony M. Amore: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist; tells the story of the 1974 heist at Russborough House, focusing on the unusual story of the female perpetrator.

• Stealing the Mystic Lamb by Noah Charney: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece ; chronicles the history of the theft of the Ghent Altarpiece.

• Chasing Aphrodite by Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum; investigates the history of looted antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. 

TOP MUSEUM HEIST FICTION 

• Portrait of a Thief by Grace Li: A bestselling debut following five Chinese-American students hired to steal back looted artifacts from Western museums, exploring themes of identity and cultural restitution.

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that begins with a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and follows a young boy who takes a famous painting.

• The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch: The first in a fantasy series about a group of con artists who are master thieves.

• Heist Society by Ally Carter: The first book in a YA series about a teenage art thief who pulls off heists to save her friends and family.

• To Have and to Heist by Sara Desai: A romantic-comedy caper involving a diamond necklace.

• The Feather Thief by Kirk W. Johnson: A middle-grade novel about a group of kids who pull off a heist to get back their friend who was framed. 

• The Great Greene Heist by Varian Johnson: A political heist sets off in a middle school harping on middle-school life that’s smart, complicated, and funny, with an intricate plot amidst lively and racially diverse cast of characters.