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Books like Keep Going
The best books like Keep Going are Steal Like an Artist, Big Magic, and Bird by Bird. Keep Going by Austin Kleon is about creativity, creative practice, resilience. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Steal Like an Artist
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Austin Kleon · Self-help
Steal Like an Artist is Austin Kleon's short, illustrated guide to the creative process, built around the premise that nothing is truly original — all creative work is built from and inspired by what came before.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Big Magic
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Elizabeth Gilbert · Self-help
Big Magic is Elizabeth Gilbert's manifesto for living a creative life — not as a professional artistic career but as an orientation toward existence.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Bird by Bird
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Anne Lamott · Self-help
Bird by Bird is Anne Lamott's guide to writing and the creative life, grown from a course she taught at UC Davis and developed over years of writing novels, essays, and journalism.
Both dig into creativity.
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- The War of Art
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Steven Pressfield · Self-help
The War of Art is Steven Pressfield's short, blunt manual for anyone who creates — or wants to create — and finds themselves blocked, procrastinating, or unable to start.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Hyperfocus
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Chris Bailey · Self-help
Hyperfocus is Chris Bailey's second book, narrowing in on the attention piece of his earlier productivity triad.
Shares creativity and attention with Keep Going.
Read the summary → - The Listening Book
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W.A. Mathieu · Philosophy
The Listening Book is W.A.
Shares creativity and attention with Keep Going.
Read the summary → - Deep Work
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Cal Newport · Self-help
Deep Work is Cal Newport's case that the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task is becoming both rarer and more valuable, and that people who cultivate it will thrive while everyone else stays stuck in shallow busywork.
Both dig into attention.
Read the summary → - Digital Minimalism
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Cal Newport · Self-help
Digital Minimalism is Cal Newport's argument that most people's relationship with smartphones and social media is not freely chosen but engineered — the product of business models that monetize attention and design interfaces for compulsion rather than value.
Both dig into attention.
Read the summary → - Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within
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Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within
Kenny Werner · Self-help
Effortless Mastery is jazz pianist Kenny Werner's account of what he calls "the space" — a state of relaxed, fearless attention that produces music of genuine quality, and that most musicians, including Werner himself for much of his early career, never reliably access.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Ego Is the Enemy
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Ryan Holiday · Self-help
Ego Is the Enemy is Ryan Holiday's argument that ego — the inflated sense of our own importance, the need to be seen and validated — is the most consistent obstacle to doing meaningful work and living well.
Both dig into resilience.
Read the summary → - Everything Is Figureoutable
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Marie Forleo · Self-help
Everything Is Figureoutable is Marie Forleo's argument that almost any problem — personal, professional, creative — becomes solvable once you adopt a foundational belief that a solution exists and that you're capable of finding it.
Both dig into resilience.
Read the summary → - Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Nir Eyal · Self-help
Indistractable is Nir Eyal's argument that distraction is not a technology problem — it's a psychology problem.
Both dig into attention.
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Books like Keep Going: quick answers
What are the best books like Keep Going?
The best books like Keep Going by Austin Kleon are Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Keep Going, such as creativity, creative practice, resilience.
What should I read after Keep Going?
A natural next read after Keep Going is Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon. Both dig into creativity. Other strong choices are Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.
What books are similar to Keep Going by Austin Kleon?
Keep Going centers on creativity, creative practice, resilience. Books with a similar feel include Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey, The Listening Book by W.A. Mathieu — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
