📚 Creative Ability

Books with creative ability on their catalogue record, first published between 1953 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject creative ability in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 8,292 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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 collected works of C.G. Jung	Carl Gustav Jung	1953	34
	The Artist's Way	Julia Cameron	1992	31
	Design Thinking Research	Hasso Plattner	2012	24
	Applied Imagination	Alex Faickney Osborn	1953	22
	The Mind Map Book	Tony Buzan	1993	21
	The Power of Focused Thinking	Edward de Bono	1981	20
	Zen in the art of writing	Ray Bradbury	1990	20
	The Innovator's Dilemma	Clayton M. Christensen	1997	20
	Serious creativity	Edward de Bono	1992	13
	The River of Consciousness	Oliver Sacks	2017	13
	Out of Our Minds	Ken Robinson	2008	10
	The courage to create	Rollo May	1975	9
	The Vein of Gold	Julia Cameron	1996	9
	The Tools	Phil Stutz	2012	9
	Think Like a Rocket Scientist	Ozan Varol	2020	9
	The Rise of the Creative Class	Richard Florida	2002	8
	Little Bets	Peter Sims	2011	8
	Building a Second Brain	Tiago Forte	2022	8
	Creating	Robert Fritz	1991	7
	Creativity in context	Teresa M. Amabile	1996	7
	Witch's Brew	Witch Bree	2001	7
	Steal like an artist	Austin Kleon	2012	7
	Art matters	Neil Gaiman	2018	7
	Every Tool's a Hammer	Adam Savage	2019	7
	Creativity is forever	Davis, Gary A.	1983	6
	The high-performance mind	Anna Wise	1995	6
	What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20	Tina Seelig	2009	6
	Creative Confidence	Tom Kelley	2013	6
	How to fly a horse	Kevin Ashton	2015	6
	Creative Selection	Ken Kocienda	2018	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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