6 best-selling self help books like Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It: A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus by Roger Von Oech

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Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It: A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus

By: Roger Von Oech

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Open your mind with the creative enigmas of Heraclitus. These innovation strategies--from "You Can'…

If you liked the self help plot in Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It: A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus by Roger Von Oech , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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2. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

By: Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Unknown Binding

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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3. Grit

By: Angela Duckworth

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth sho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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4. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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5. I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man and… read more

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"Su misma superioridad lo perdió"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"There is no Master but the Master,"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"No hay manera de diferenciar un robot de un ser humano bueno"

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

"There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power."

-Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

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6. The Graveyard Book

By: Neil Gaiman , Dave McKean

4.16

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly n… read more

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"Leave no path untaken."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"You are almost never cool to your children."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself wih you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."

-Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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7. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

By: Elisabeth Tova Bailey

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Bailey s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

Format: 148 pages,

Written in Greek, without any intention of publication, by the only Roman emperor who was also a ph… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • self help
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9. The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more

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10. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

By: Miguel Ruiz

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of … read more

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11. Zen in the Art of Archery

By: R.F.C. Hull , None , Eugen Herrigel , Φοίβος Ι. Πιομπίνος

3.76

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The path to achieving Zen (a balance between the body and the mind) is brilliantly explained by Pro… read more

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12. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

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"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

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13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

By: Philip K. Dick

4.09

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the hordes of humans o… read more

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"An android,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mors certa, vita incerta,"

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Mankind needs more empathy."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

"Frankly, you look more like a goat man to me."

-Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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14. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more

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"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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15. Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more

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"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"I don't want to die without any scars."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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16. The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

By: John P. Strelecky

3.55

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In a small cafe at a location so remote it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John--a m… read more

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  • philosophy
  • self help
"Man schafft nicht alles. Niemand tut das. Deshalb sollte man sich über die Dinge freuen, zu denen man kommt."

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

"Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now?"

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

"As I was floating on the surface, I realized something: When the turtle was swimming, it linked its movements to the movements of the water. When a wave was coming at him, he would float, and paddle …"

-John P. Strelecky, The Cafe on the Edge of the World: A Story About the Meaning of Life

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17. Invisible Monsters

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a su… read more

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"Sorry, mom. Sorry, God."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"Make me into anything, but just love me."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"The future is just wasted on some people."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

"At this rate, we'll never get to the future."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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18. Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It: A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus

By: Roger Von Oech

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Open your mind with the creative enigmas of Heraclitus. These innovation strategies--from "You Can'… read more

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  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help

6 best-selling nonfiction books like Expect the Unexpected or You Won't Find It: A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus by Roger Von Oech

Transform Your Habits

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Richard P. Rumelt

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Grit

Angela Duckworth

4.67

Transform Your Habits

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

3.67

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27 Top fiction books like Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2) by Jules Verne, Anthony Bonner

Transform Your Habits

Robinson Crusoe

Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

Transform Your Habits

The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1)

Arthur Conan Doyle

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

Arthur Conan Doyle , Anne Perry , Sidney Paget , Maria Buitoni Duca

4.13

Transform Your Habits

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

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