📚 Bats

The mammals that fly: echolocation, roosts, their ecology of insects and pollen, and the mythology that never gave them rest.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject bats 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
	Fright Night	NOW Comics	1988	27
	Let's look at bats	Ruth Berman	2009	9
	Bats (Read and Learn: Night Safari)	Rebecca Rissman	2014	9
	The Magic School Bus Going Batty	Nancy E. Krulik	1996	8
	Bats	John D. Altringham	1996	7
	Bats	Gail Gibbons	1999	7
	Ontogeny, functional ecology, and evolution of bats	Rick A. Adams	2000	7
	A monograph of the bats of North America	Harrison Allen	1864	6
	America's neighborhood bats	Merlin D. Tuttle	1988	6
	Zipping, zapping, zooming bats	Ann Earle	1995	6
	Evolutionary history of bats	Gregg F. Gunnell	2012	6
	Simply Sound	Eric Braun	2014	6
	Bat Count	Anna Forrester	2017	6
	Bats, Bats, Bats	Erin A. Olearczyk	1996	5
	Bats of the Rocky Mountain West	Rick A. Adams	2003	5
	British Bats	John D. Altringham	2003	5
	Vampire Bats	Emily Raabe	2005	5
	Hello, Bumblebee Bat	Darrin P. Lunde	2007	5
	Gray bat	Susan Heinrichs Gray	2007	5
	Bats and Viruses	Lin-Fa Wang	2015	5
	It's a Vampire Bat!	Tessa Kenan	2017	5
	Bats	M. Brock Fenton	1992	4
	Shadows of Night	Barbara Bash	1993	4
	Bats	Dee Stuart	1994	4
	Bats of the World	Gary L. Graham	1994	4
	Outside and inside bats	Sandra Markle	1997	4
	Bats	Lily Wood	2001	4
	All about bats	Caryn Jenner	2017	4
	Bats in the dark	John Kaufmann	1972	3
	Squeaking bats	Ruth Berman	1998	3

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

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