Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Creativity books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
- Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (2013)
- Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create (2018)
- Deep Creativity: Seven Ways to Spark Your Creative Spirit (2019)
- The Creativity Challenge: Design, Experiment, Test, Innovate, Build, Create, Inspire, and Unleash Your Genius (2015)
- The Artist’s Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity (2019)
- inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity (2015)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) (2019)
- The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection (2019)
- Creativity in Research: Cultivate Clarity, Be Innovative, and Make Progress in your Research Journey (2019)
- Evolve or Die: Lessons for World-Class Innovation & Creativity (2018)
Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (2013)
The classic study of the creative process from the bestselling author of FlowCreativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (“The leading researcher into ‘flow states.’” — Newsweek) reveals what leads to these moments—be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab—so that this knowledge can be used to enrich people’s lives.
Conscious Creativity: Look, Connect, Create (2018)
“”Crammed with practical ideas, inspirational images & creative exercises, Conscious Creativity leads the reader through the process of establishing what kind of you are” – Mslexia “The purpose of this book is to enable you to look at things in an alternative and more substantial way, so that you arrive at composition through g…
Deep Creativity: Seven Ways to Spark Your Creative Spirit (2019)
Reignite your creative spark with accessible meditations and practices developed by three experts on creativity and collaboration across three generations. Whether you’re a filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, graphic designer, dabbler, or doodler, all creative people face the challenges of myriad distractions and pressure to produce. Devoting space for the creative spark has become increasingly difficult.
The Creativity Challenge: Design, Experiment, Test, Innovate, Build, Create, Inspire, and Unleash Your Genius (2015)
As seen on Inc.com Discover your "Aha" moment–right now!What's the best way to become more creative? Just change how you think! This book challenges you to go against your default ways of thinking in order to write, design, and build something extraordinary. Featuring more than 100 challenges, exercises, and prompts, each page guides you as you push past the way you normally see the world and uncover all-new possibilities and ideas.
The Artist’s Journey: Bold Strokes To Spark Creativity (2019)
It’s later than you think. You don’t want to come to your final moments regretting your un-lived dreams. You’ve got paintings inside you waiting to be expressed. You know that, while you could keep repeating what’s worked before in your art, this is a kind of soul death. You want to experiment, take risks and explore a deeper self expression. You want to wrestle down your self doubts and inner criticism and finally create the paintings of your dreams- paintings that wow and astonish you.
inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity (2015)
Imaginative. Innovative. Ingenious. These words describe the visionaries we all respect and admire. And they can describe you, too. Contrary to common belief, creativity is not a gift some of us are born with. It is a skill that all of us can learn.
The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) (2019)
This second edition of the renowned Cambridge Handbook of Creativity expands on the first edition with over two thirds new material reaching across psychology, business, entrepreneurship, education, and neuroscience. It introduces creativity scholarship by summarising its history, major theories and assessments, how creativity develops across the lifespan, and suggestions for improving creativity.
The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection (2019)
Colby Sharp invited more than forty authors and illustrators to provide story starters for each other; photos, drawings, poems, prose, or anything they could dream up. When they received their prompts, they responded by transforming these seeds into any form of creative work they wanted to share.The result is a stunning collection of words, art, poetry, and stories by some of our most celebrated children book creators.
Creativity in Research: Cultivate Clarity, Be Innovative, and Make Progress in your Research Journey (2019)
Creativity is at the heart of successful research, yet researchers are rarely taught how to manage their creative process, and modern academic life is not structured to optimize creativity. Creativity in Research provides concrete guidance on developing creativity for anyone doing or mentoring research.
Evolve or Die: Lessons for World-Class Innovation & Creativity (2018)
Assuming you’re someone interested in learning and improving— and making a difference— this book was written with you in mind. Whether you’re at the top of the corporate pyramid, or somewhere nearer the base.
Best Creativity Books Worth Your Attention
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Business Beyond Design: A new model to Think Strategically, Foster Creativity and Transform Businesses
Author(s): Gianluca Cinquepalmi
ID: 2344650, Publisher: Self Published, Year: 5 Mar 2019, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine: Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing
Author(s): Maria Papaspyrou, Chiara Baldini, David Luke
ID: 2370977, Publisher: Park Street Press, Year: 30 Apr 2019, Size: 8 Mb, Format: epub
Awakening the Planetary Mind: Beyond the Trauma of the Past to a New Era of Creativity
Author(s): Barbara Hand Clow
ID: 2284732, Publisher: Bear & Company, Year: 21 Sept 2011, Size: 3 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are really record-breakers according to USA Today, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.