📚 Creativity

Where new ideas come from and how to get more of them: the process and the practice, and the useful doubt about the myth of the unmotivated muse.

Below are the 28 works carrying the subject creativity in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Artist's Way	Julia Cameron	1992	31
	Applied Imagination	Alex Faickney Osborn	1953	22
	Whack On the Side of the Head	Roger Von Oech	1973	20
	The Power of Focused Thinking	Edward de Bono	1981	20
	Conceptual blockbusting	Adams, James L.	1974	14
	Serious creativity	Edward de Bono	1992	13
	Creativity, Inc.	Ed Catmull	2001	10
	Kunst und künstler	Otto Rank	1932	9
	The courage to create	Rollo May	1975	9
	The Tools	Phil Stutz	2012	9
	Creative Process	Brewster Ghiselin	1952	8
	The Rise of the Creative Class	Richard Florida	2002	8
	Imagine	Jonah Lehrer	2012	8
	Building a Second Brain	Tiago Forte	2022	8
	Bored and brilliant	Manoush Zomorodi	2017	7
	Drawing on the artist within	Betty Edwards	1986	6
	The Path of Least Resistance	Robert Fritz	1984	5
	Where good ideas come from	Steven Johnson	2010	5
	The Creative Act	Rick Rubin	2023	5
	Renaissance man and creative thinking	Dorothy Koenigsberger	1978	4
	The creative cognition approach	Steven M. Smith	1995	4
	Creativity	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi	1996	4
	The art of creative thinking	Rod Judkins	2015	4
	Creativity	Silvano Arieti	1976	3
	Good Prose	Tracy Kidder	2013	3
	Minecraft Let's Build	Mojang	2019	3
	Damn good advice (for people with talent!)	George Lois	2012	1
	Steal Like an Artist Journal	Austin Kleon	2015	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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