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Books like Leonardo da Vinci
The best books like Leonardo da Vinci are Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and Universe, and Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson is about creativity, curiosity, art and science. 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.
- Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson · Biography
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs was authorized by Jobs himself, who gave Isaacson more than forty hours of interviews and opened up his family, friends, and colleagues to the same scrutiny.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson · Biography
Walter Isaacson's Einstein biography is the most widely read account of the physicist's life in English, written after Isaacson was granted access to forty thousand previously sealed documents in the Hebrew University Einstein Archives.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
A kindred biography read.
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- Outliers: The Story of Success
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Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell · Psychology
Outliers is Malcolm Gladwell's argument that exceptional success is less a product of individual genius or drive than it is of hidden advantages, timing, and accumulated opportunity.
A kindred biography read.
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.
Shares creativity and curiosity with Leonardo da Vinci.
Read the summary → - The Act of Creation
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Arthur Koestler · Psychology
The Act of Creation is Arthur Koestler's attempt to build a unified theory of creativity that accounts for humor, scientific discovery, and artistic originality under a single conceptual framework.
Shares creativity and art and science with Leonardo da Vinci.
Read the summary → - Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
James Gleick · Biography
Genius is James Gleick's biography of Richard Feynman, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who developed quantum electrodynamics, cracked safes at Los Alamos, played bongo drums in bars, and became the twentieth century's most celebrated scientific personality.
Both dig into curiosity.
Read the summary → - Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Neal Gabler · Biography
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination is Neal Gabler's authorized biography, drawing on Disney's personal papers and company archives that had been closed to researchers for decades.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Art as Experience
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John Dewey · Philosophy
Art as Experience, published in 1934, is John Dewey's attempt to rescue aesthetics from the museum pedestal and return it to ordinary life.
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.
Read the summary → - Chronicles: Volume One
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Bob Dylan · Memoir
Chronicles: Volume One is the first installment of what Dylan announced as a multi-volume memoir, and it is one of the stranger and more rewarding books any major artist has written about their own formation.
Both dig into creativity.
Read the summary → - Creative Selection
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Ken Kocienda · Business
Creative Selection is Ken Kocienda's first-hand account of how software gets made at Apple during the period when the iPhone and iPad were born.
Both dig into creativity.
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Books like Leonardo da Vinci: quick answers
What are the best books like Leonardo da Vinci?
The best books like Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson are Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Leonardo da Vinci, such as creativity, curiosity, art and science.
What should I read after Leonardo da Vinci?
A natural next read after Leonardo da Vinci is Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Both dig into creativity. Other strong choices are Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell.
What books are similar to Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson?
Leonardo da Vinci centers on creativity, curiosity, art and science. Books with a similar feel include Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
