Best Creativity & Innovation Book Summaries
50 creativity & innovation titles, each summarized in about 15 minutes with audio and personalized action steps built around your goals.
Alchemy
by Rory Sutherland
A Technique for Producing Ideas
by James Webb Young
Big Magic
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Creative Confidence
by Tom Kelley & David Kelley
Creativity, Inc.
by Ed Catmull
Dear Writer
by Maggie Smith
Disciplined Dreaming
by Josh Linkner
Epic Disruptions
by Scott D. Anthony
How Innovation Really Works
by Anne Marie Knott
How to Fly a Horse
by Kevin Ashton
Imagine
by Jonah Lehrer
Insight
by Tasha Eurich
Into the Impossible
by Brian Keating
Lateral Thinking
by Edward de Bono
Mental Models
by Indi Young
Molecule of More
by Daniel Z. Lieberman & Michael E. Long
Never Play It Safe
by Chase Jarvis
Originals
by Adam Grant
Proust Was a Neuroscientist
by Jonah Lehrer
Rebel Ideas
by Matthew Syed
Show Your Work!
by Austin Kleon
Steal Like an Artist
by Austin Kleon
Strategic Intuition
by William Duggan
The Artist's Way
by Julia Cameron
The Art of Noticing
by Rob Walker
The Art of Possibility
by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander
The Beginning of Infinity
by David Deutsch
The Courage to Create
by Rollo May
The Creative Curve
by Allen Gannett
The Creative Habit
by Twyla Tharp
The Creative Spark
by Agustín Fuentes
The Culture of Design
by Guy Julier
The Eureka Factor
by John Kounios & Mark Beeman
The Human Element
by Loran Nordgren & David Schonthal
The Innovator’s DNA
by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen & Clayton Christensen
The Laws of Simplicity
by John Maeda
The Medici Effect
by Frans Johansson
The Myths of Creativity
by David Burkus
The Path Of Least Resistance
by Robert Fritz
The Polymath
by Waqas Ahmed
The Power of Writing It Down
by Allison Fallon
The Runaway Species
by Anthony Brandt & David Eagleman
The Upside of Uncertainty
by Nathan Furr & Susannah Harmon Furr
The Voltage Effect
by John A. List
Think Like a Freak
by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Think Like a Rocket Scientist
by Ozan Varol
Think Like The Minimalist
by Chirag Gander & Sahil Vaidya
Where Good Ideas Come From
by Steven Johnson
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
by Joel Lehman & Kenneth O. Stanley
Wired to Create
by Scott Barry Kaufman & Carolyn Gregoire