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Books like Rebel Without a Crew
The best books like Rebel Without a Crew are The War of Art, Steal Like an Artist, and Show Your Work!. Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez is about independent filmmaking, creative resourcefulness, entrepreneurship. 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.
- 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.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - 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.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - Show Your Work!
- 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.
A kindred memoir read.
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.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire
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Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire
Andrew Wilkinson · Memoir
Never Enough is Andrew Wilkinson's memoir about building a small empire of internet companies — Tiny, the holding company he co-founded, has acquired dozens of businesses — and discovering that accumulating wealth at a level he'd once have considered unimaginable didn't resolve the anxiety that had driven him to pursue it.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight · Memoir
Shoe Dog is Phil Knight's account of the first two decades of Nike, from the $50 loan he borrowed from his father in 1964 to fund his first shipment of Japanese running shoes to the company's IPO in 1980.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - AI Superpowers
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Kai-Fu Lee · Business
AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's argument that the geopolitical competition to lead in artificial intelligence is primarily a two-country race between the United States and China, and that the outcome will reshape the global economy in ways most people haven't started to reckon with.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Americana
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Bhu Srinivasan · History
Americana is Bhu Srinivasan's attempt to tell the history of American capitalism through its defining industries and the entrepreneurs who built them.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Anything You Want
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Derek Sivers · Business
Anything You Want is Derek Sivers' account of building, running, and eventually selling CD Baby, the independent musician distribution company he founded accidentally in 1998 when a few friends asked him to sell their CDs online.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Behind the Cloud
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Marc Benioff · Business
Behind the Cloud is Marc Benioff's account of building Salesforce from a startup in his apartment to the first cloud computing company to reach $1 billion in revenue.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
Read the summary → - Beyond Entrepreneurship
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Jim Collins & William Lazier · Business
Beyond Entrepreneurship is Jim Collins's first major book, co-written with William Lazier and published in 1992, before the research that produced Built to Last and Good to Great.
Both dig into entrepreneurship.
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Books like Rebel Without a Crew: quick answers
What are the best books like Rebel Without a Crew?
The best books like Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez are The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon, Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Rebel Without a Crew, such as independent filmmaking, creative resourcefulness, entrepreneurship.
What should I read after Rebel Without a Crew?
A natural next read after Rebel Without a Crew is The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. A kindred memoir read. Other strong choices are Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon, Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda.
What books are similar to Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez?
Rebel Without a Crew centers on independent filmmaking, creative resourcefulness, entrepreneurship. Books with a similar feel include The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon, Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon, Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew Wilkinson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
