📚 Creative Thinking

Books with creative thinking on their catalogue record, first published between 1940 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject creative thinking in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,529 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
	Creative visualization	Shakti Gawain	1978	24
	Thinking course	Edward de Bono	1982	24
	Design Thinking Research	Hasso Plattner	2012	24
	Lateral thinking: creativity step by step	Edward de Bono	1970	23
	Applied Imagination	Alex Faickney Osborn	1953	22
	The Mind Map Book	Tony Buzan	1993	21
	Creativity in the Classroom	Alane Jordan Starko	2000	19
	The 5 a.m. Club	Robin S. Sharma	2018	18
	A Technique for Producing Ideas	James Webb Young	1940	13
	A technique for producing ideas	James Webb Young	1975	13
	Linchpin	Seth Godin	1960	12
	Beyond feelings	Vincent Ryan Ruggiero	1975	11
	Creativity and education	Hugh Lytton	1971	10
	The art of thinking	Vincent Ryan Ruggiero	1984	10
	Inventing Arguments	John Mauk	2005	9
	Mastermind	Maria Konnikova	2013	9
	Creative Process	Brewster Ghiselin	1952	8
	How to Think Like Einstein	Scott Thorpe	2000	7
	The Power of Creative Intelligence	Tony Buzan	2001	7
	Steal like an artist	Austin Kleon	2012	7
	Habits of the Creative Mind	Miller, Richard E.	2015	7
	Every Tool's a Hammer	Adam Savage	2019	7
	Creativity is forever	Davis, Gary A.	1983	6
	Thinking for a Change	John C. Maxwell	2003	6
	Strategies for creative problem solving	H. Scott Fogler	1995	5
	Think like a genius	Todd Siler	1996	5
	How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci	Michael J. Gelb	2000	5
	The War of Art	Steven Pressfield	2002	5
	Where good ideas come from	Steven Johnson	2010	5
	Everything Is Figure Outable	Marie Forleo	2019	5

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

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