The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. This 12-week program for "stuck" creatives based on the AA model has spawned groups all over the world. Its insights are useful for anyone starting something new or in transition.

Drawing on the Artist Within by Betty Edwards. (Paperback)

Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Artists, Innovators, and Others Aspiring to a Creative Life by Carol Lloyd. Harper Perennial, 1997.

How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day by Michael J. Gelb.

Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi by Howard Gardner. (Paperback)

The Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy that Fosters New Ideas by Elaine Dundon. (Hardcover)

Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. (Paperback)

Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas Are Born by Denise G. Shekerjian. (Paperback)