📚 Authorship

Books with authorship on their catalogue record, first published between 1850 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject authorship in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 25,438 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
	The prelude	William Wordsworth	1850	69
	Publication Manual of the American Psycological Association	American Psychological Association.	1952	45
	Zen in the art of writing	Ray Bradbury	1990	20
	Bird by Bird	Anne Lamott	1994	16
	Devotion	Patti Smith	2017	12
	Guts	Gary Paulsen	2000	11
	Writing for the mass media	James Glen Stovall	1985	10
	Writing Down the Bones	Natalie Goldberg	1986	10
	100 Ways to Improve Your Writing	Gary Provost	1985	7
	Bare bones	Stephen King	1988	7
	Write tight	William Brohaugh	1993	7
	Burn After Writing	Sharon Jones	2014	7
	If You Want to Write	Brenda Ueland	1938	6
	The Right to Write	Julia Cameron	1998	6
	A million miles in a thousand years	Donald Miller	2009	6
	The Daily Stoic Journal	Ryan Holiday	2017	6
	Who Wrote the Bible?	Richard Elliott Friedman	1987	5
	Writing with pictures	Uri Shulevitz	1985	4
	Secrets of a freelance writer	Robert W. Bly	1988	4
	Writing philosophy	Lewis Vaughn	2005	4
	A Poetry Handbook	Mary Oliver	1994	3
	The Poetry Home Repair Manual	Ted Kooser	2005	3
	Why I Write	George Orwell	2005	3
	Nabokov's favorite word is mauve	Ben Blatt	2017	3
	How to Enjoy Writing	Isaac Asimov	1987	2
	Writing as a way of healing	Louise A. DeSalvo	1999	2
	The Africans Who Wrote the Bible	Nana Banchie Darkwah	2000	2
	Crafting magick with pen and ink	Susan Moonwriter Pesznecker	2009	2
	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Jeff Kinney	2013	2
	Write Moves	Nancy Pagh	2016	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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