📚 Antibiotics

From Fleming to resistance: the compounds that changed medicine, and the warning ticking inside them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject antibiotics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Guide to the classification and identification of the actinomycetes and their antibiotics	Selman A. Waksman	1953	10
	Topics in Antibiotic Chemistry	P. G. Sammes	1977	10
	Antimicrobial pharmacodynamics in theory and clinical practice	Paul G. Ambrose	2001	10
	Kucers' the use of antibiotics	M. Lindsay Grayson	2010	8
	Antibiotics	Tadeusz Korzybski	1967	7
	Biochemistry of antimicrobial action	T. J. Franklin	1971	7
	Antibiotics I	Isao Kawamoto	1992	6
	Antibiotics	Christopher Walsh	2003	6
	Antibiotics in clinical practice	Hillas Smith	1969	5
	Antimicrobial therapy	Benjamin M. Kagan	1970	5
	Antibiotics	Allen I. Laskin	1977	5
	Antibiotika, Chemie und Anwendung	Dieter Onken	1979	5
	Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance	Ola Sköld	2011	5
	Antibiotics	Claudio O. Gualerzi	2013	5
	You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Antibiotics!	Anne Rooney	2014	5
	Miracles from Microbes	Sam Epstein	1946	4
	The actinomycetes	Selman A. Waksman	1959	4
	Antimicrobial Therapy Guide	Burt R. Meyers	1992	4
	Beyond antibiotics	Michael A. Schmidt	1993	4
	Essentials of Antimicrobial Pharmacology	Paul H. Axelsen	2001	4
	Basic pharmacokinetics	Sunil S. Jambhekar	2009	4
	Antibiotics simplified	Jason C. Gallagher	2013	4
	Antibiotics Manual	David L. Schlossberg	2017	4
	Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics	David Turner	2019	4
	Antibiotic Drug Resistance	Giberto Igrejas	2019	4
	Biography of Resistance	Muhammad H. Zaman	2020	4
	The science book of wonder drugs	Donald Gray Cooley	1954	3
	Antibiotic and chemotherapy	Lawrence P. Garrod	1968	3
	Chromatography of antibiotics	Gerald H. Wagman	1973	3
	Antibiotics I, II, III	Gottleib, Hahn, Shaw Corcoran	1975	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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