第一章　定义天才

E. T. Bell, Men of Mathematics (London: Victor Gollancz, 1937)

Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code (London: Random House, 2009)

H. J. Eysenck, Genius: The Natural History of Creativity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)

Francis Galton, Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its Laws and Consequences (Amherst: Prometheus, 2006)

M. J. A. Howe, J. W. Davidson, and J. A. Sloboda, ‘Innate Talents: Reality or Myth？’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 (1998): 399-442

Penelope Murray (ed.), Genius: The History of an Idea (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989)

Andrew Steptoe, ‘Mozart: Resilience Under Stress’, in Genius and the Mind: Studies of Creativity and Temperament, ed. Andrew Steptoe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)

第二章　天才家事

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention (New York: Harper Collins, 1996)

Victor Goertzel and Mildred Goertzel, Cradles of Eminence (London: Constable, 1962)

R. Ochse, Before the Gates of Excellence: The Determinants of Creative Genius (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990)

第三章　天才教育

Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (London: Scribners, 1991)

Andrew Robinson, The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris (London: Thames & Hudson, 2002)

Dean Keith Simonton, Genius, Creativity and Leadership: Historiometric Inquiries (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1984)

John Tusa, On Creativity: Interviews Exploring the Process (London: Methuen, 2003)

第四章　智力与创造力

Catharine M. Cox, The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses, vol. 2 of Genetic Studies of Genius, ed. L. M. Terman (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1926)

James R. Flynn, What Is Intelligence？: Beyond the Flynn Effect (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)

David Lubinski and Camilla Persson Benbow, ‘Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth After 35 Years: Uncovering Antecedents for the Development of Math-Science Expertise’, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1 (2006): 316-45

Robert J. Sternberg (ed.), Handbook of Creativity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

L. M. Terman, ‘Psychological Approaches to the Biography of Genius’, in Creativity: Selected Readings, ed. P. E. Vernon (London: Penguin, 1970)

第五章　天才与疯癫

Nancy C. Andreasen, The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius (New York: Dana Press, 2005)

Richard M. Berlin (ed.), Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)

Noel L. Brann, The Debate over the Origin of Genius during the Italian Renaissance: The Theories of Supernatural Frenzy and Natural Melancholy in Accord and in Conflict on the Threshold of the Scientific Revolution (Leiden: Brill, 2002)

Kay Redfield Jamison, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament (New York: Free Press, 1994)

Royal Academy of Arts (no ed.), The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2010)

Andrew Steptoe, ‘Artistic Temperament in the Italian Renaissance: A Study of Giorgio Vasari's Lives’, in Genius and the Mind: Studies of Creativity and Temperament, ed. Andrew Steptoe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)

第六章　变色龙人格

Banesh Hoffmann, Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (New York: Viking, 1972)

Daniel Nettle, Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)

Robert W. Weisberg, Creativity: Understanding Innovation in Problem Solving, Science, Invention, and the Arts (Hoboken: John Wiley, 2006)

第七章　艺术对峙科学

Peter Medawar, Pluto’s Republic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982)

Dean Keith Simonton, Creativity in Science: Chance, Logic, Genius, and Zeitgeist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures: and A Second Look (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964)

Gunther S. Stent, ‘Meaning in Art and Science’, in The Origins of Creativity, ed. Karl H. Pfenninger and Valerie R. Shubik (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)

第八章　尤里卡经验

Frederic Lawrence Holmes, Investigative Pathways: Patterns and Stages in the Careers of Experimental Scientists (Newhaven: Yale University Press, 2004)

David Perkins, The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking (New York: Norton, 2000)

Andrew Robinson, Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

Alan J. Rocke, ‘Hypothesis and Experiment in the Early Development of Kekulé’s Benzene Theory’, Annals of Science, 42 (1985): 355-81

第九章　汗水与灵感

David W. Galenson, Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008)

Howard Gardner, Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi (New York: Basic Books, 1993)

J. R. Hayes, ‘Cognitive Processes in Creativity’, in Handbook of Creativity, ed. J. A. Glover, R. R. Ronning, and C. R. Reynolds (New York: Plenum, 1989)

Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation (London: Hutchinson, 1964)

第十章　天才与我们

Harold Bloom, Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (London: Fourth Estate, 2002)

Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History (New York: Vintage, 1997)

Robert Currie, Genius: An Ideology in Literature (London: Chatto & Windus, 1974)

Burton Feldman, The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige (New York: Arcade, 2000)

Colin Martindale, The Clockwork Muse: The Predictability of Artistic Change (New York: Basic Books, 1990)

Gerald Reitlinger, The Economics of Taste: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices 1760-1960 (London: Barrie and Rockcliff, 1961)

Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: A European Explorer and His American Disciples (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)