Since I began sharing the coolest and most creative coloring books for adults with you annually beginning back in 2009 – one of the first blogs to do so – the genre has exploded.
The Coolest Coloring Books For Grown-Ups Part V
Sadly, much of the category has turned from hip and edgy to sappy, inspirational, meditative, calming versions of coloring for adults. Now sold as ‘art therapy’ and ways to de-stress, I have avoided those versions entirely. Instead, I have scoured the not yet published and independently produced and managed to find the newest, design-y, geeky, edgy and twisted ones for this fifth installment of The Coolest Coloring Books For Grown-Ups.
You won’t find mandalas, hearts, inspirational quotes, psalms, angels, fairies or zen coloring books here. For those you need to go elsewhere.
POP CULTURE / TV & MOVIES
Breaking Bad: Cookin’ Up Some Color, Yo: A badass coloring & activity book for grown-ups
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The Official A Game of Thrones Coloring Book (A Song of Ice and Fire)
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Harry Potter Coloring Book
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Harry Potter Creatures Coloring Book
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Official BBC Doctor Who Coloring Book
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Sherlock: The Mind Palace: The Official Colouring Book
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The Official Outlander Coloring Book
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Tolkien’s World: A Colouring Book
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Tolkien’s World: A Fantasy Coloring Book
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Star Wars Art Therapy Colouring Book
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FASHION / STYLE
The Hipster Coloring Book
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The Look: An Around-the-World Fashion Coloring Book
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Vogue Coloring Book
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1960s Fashion: Artists’ Colouring Book
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My Even More Wonderful World of Fashion
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Advanced Style The Coloring Book
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ARCHITECTURE / URBAN
Coloring Architecture: a built environment coloring book
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Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined
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Colouring Book Antoni Gaudi
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The Wandering City: Colouring Book
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MID-CENTURY MODERN
Just Add Color: Mid-Century Modern Mania
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Just Add Color: Mid-Century Modern Patterns
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Martini Madness: Mid- Century Modern Adult Coloring Book
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DESIGN / TYPOGRAPHY
The Typography Coloring Book: Creative Coloring for Grown-ups
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Chalkboard Art Coloring Book: Designs on a Dramatic Black Background
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Cotton + Steel Coloring Book: 75+ Pages of Whimsical Designs to Color and Love
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Bauhaus Style: Artists Colouring Book
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The Wallpaper Coloring Book
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Every Little Thing: A Flat Vernacular Coloring Book
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NATURE / ANIMALS
Beautiful Creatures: A Boundless Coloring Book Adventure
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Field Guide: Creatures Great and Small: 35 prints to color
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The Art of Nature Coloring Book: 60 Illustrations Inspired by Vintage Botanical and Scientific Prints
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Lost Ocean: An Inky Adventure and Coloring Book
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Enchanted Forest: An Inky Quest & Coloring Book
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UNDER THE INFLUENCE
The Wine Lover’s Coloring Book
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Cannabis Coloring Books For Adults: Tokin’ T-Rex & His Buddies AND Mashed Monsters
Details/Buy Mashed Monsters here
Details/Buy Tokin’ T-Rex here
The Stoners Coloring Book
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The Ultimate Coloring for Grown-Ups
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COLOUR ME GOOD / MEL ELLIOTT Books
Hot Dudes Coloring Book
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Colour Me Good Art
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Colour Me Good Modern Art
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Colour Me Good Chairs
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Colour Me Good Eddie Redmayne
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Find More Mel Elliott “Colour Me Good” Books here
MISCELLANEOUS
Color Me Cluttered: A Coloring Book to Transform Everyday Chaos into Art
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Color Me Sweet: Candy Crush Saga Coloring Book
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The Candy Crush Adult Coloring Book: Creatively Color the Candy Kingdom
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The Trump Coloring Book
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Steampunk Coloring Books 1 and 2
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The Jeremy Fish Coloring Book Staple Bound – 2015
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The Art Chicken Coloring Book: Parodies of Modern Art, Now With Chickens!
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Anthropomorphic Adult Coloring Book: (Animal Human Hybrids Coloring Book) drawings by 19th century French caricaturist, J. J. Grandville
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The Little Prince Coloring Book
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The Big Bernie Madoff Coloring and Activity Book
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GENDER /SEXUALITY
The Badass Feminist Coloring Book (Volume 1)
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An Adult Coloring Book For Gay Men (Who Are Gay!)
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Prismacolor Premier Soft Core Colored Pencils, 132 Colored Pencils (4484)
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