1. The Book Of Doing by Allison Arden
In this book, Allison discusses 94 activities that can create opportunity by taking you out of your comfort zone, and unlocking the creativity that lives inside you. This book also classifies the hurdles standing in your way to success.
2. Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
Illustrating creativity through references and facts, Lehrer reveals a variety of distinct thought processes that will help us to unlock our imagination.
3. Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
In this worldwide praised book, de Bono offers some practical methods to buoy up the habit of lateral thinking to generate ideas and to unleash creativity.
4. It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be. by Paul Arden
The world’s best advertising expert, Paul Arden, shares his wisdom on issues like problem solving, answering to a brief, connecting, making right decisions, making mistakes, and creativity—all activities that are realistic in modern life.
5. How To Have Kick-Ass Ideas by Chris Barez-Brown
The book How To Have Kick-Ass Ideas is filled with simple, useful methods to unlock your creative juices and contains real-life case studies to exhibit the methods in action.
6. Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Creativity is about seizing the moments that can make our life worth living. In this book, the author offers an understanding of what leads to these worth-living moments. Consisting of 100 interviews with extraordinary people, from ecologists and physicists to business leaders and politician, Csikszentmihalyi uses his well-known philosophy to discover the creative process.
7. Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley, David Kelley
This famous book is written by two well-known experts in innovation, intention and creativity. This book reveals the myth that creativity is the domain of “creative types” only.
8. The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp, one of the world’s most famous creative artists, shares her secrets for increasing and improving creative talents.
9. The Opposable Mind by Roger L. Martin
The Opposable Mind is consist of 50 success stories of management, including the success behind some famous brands like Proctor & Gamble, eBay and Four Seasons hotels.
10. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The famous psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s illustrious investigations of “optimal experience” have shown that the satisfaction is a state of consciousness called “flow.” In this new edition, Csikszentmihalyi describes the ways this positive state can be controlled.
11. Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton
In this book Bill Buxton has included a huge collection of historic lessons, examples of best practices, and case studies from the world of business/communication/experience design. The book addresses the designers, specialists, community, managers, and business executives.
12. Conversations with Wilder by Cameron Crowe
Cameron Crowe, director of Jerry Maguire, loves Billy Wilder’s films so much, he’s written a book about them. In this book, he analyzes the “creative process” and tries to discover the secret of success of creative people—writers, artists, filmmakers, and comedians.
13. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
The Checklist Manifesto is an intellectual adventures book, in which many lives are lost and saved and one simple idea changes the whole situation. The Checklist Manifesto is a must-read book for anyone looking to get things right.
14. The Tenacity of the Cockroach by Stephen Thompson
This book consist of essays authored by extraordinary creative people. This book includes in-depth interviews of creative people from a vast range of disciplines and allows you to investigate their inspirations, processes, trials and skills.
15. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
In this highly anticipated book, Kahneman takes us on a revolutionary tour of the mind and explains the systems that drive the way we think.
16. Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon
In this book, Austin Kleon emphasizes that it doesn’t take ingenuity to be creative—it just takes being yourself. This book is extremely modern and applicable to the digital age.
17. Manage Your Day-to-Day by Jocelyn K. Glei
Manage Your Day-to-Day is equipped with practical insights about time management and work productivity. With wisdom from 20 leading creative minds, this book will give you a toolkit for confronting the new challenges at the workplace.
18. Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Predictably Irrational gives an interesting, witty and completely original overview about our illogical decisions. In this astonishing book, behavioral economist Dan Ariely, reveals how irrationality often replaces rational thought.
19. Contagious by Jonah Berger
Contagious combines innovative research with prevailing stories. This book offers a set of precise, actionable procedures to spread information—designing messages, promotion material, advertisements, and information that people will share.
20. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Praised throughout the cartoon industry, Scott McCloud explains and observes many characteristics of visual communication. This famous book has been translated into 16 languages, its ideas applied in many other fields such as game design, web development, and animation.
21. Save The Cat by Blake Snyder
This book is an ultimate insider’s guide that discloses the mysteries that no one dares to admit, told by a showbiz expert who’s supported that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!
22. The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. & E. B. White
This book offers useful advice on improving writing skills. Throughout The Elements of Style, the authors promote a plain English style. It can help many students to communicate more effectively by demonstrating how to enliven their sentences.
23. Art & Fear by David Bayles & Ted Orland
Art & Fear explores the world of art, and discusses the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up. The authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, have personal experience, and provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is experienced by art makers themselves.
24. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
This book is the world’s most widely used drawing-instruction book. People from every walk of life—artists, students, managers, designers, architects, real estate agents, engineers—have applied its ground-breaking approach to problem solving.
25. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The War of Art is a profoundly inspiring guide to disable creative blocks of every kind. It also identifies the internal enemy, sketches a battle plan to conquer this enemy; and then determines ways to achieve greatest success. Featured photo credit: Paddy via flickr.com
