📚 Body Language

Books with body language on their catalogue record, first published between 1920 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject body language in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,166 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
	Telling Lies	Paul Ekman	1985	24
	Nonverbal communication	Judee K. Burgoon	1988	18
	Manwatching	Desmond Morris	1920	16
	Nonverbal communication in human interaction	Mark L. Knapp	1972	16
	The Definitive Book of Body Language	Allan Pease	2004	16
	Body language for dummies	Elizabeth Kuhnke	2007	16
	What every BODY is saying	Joe Navarro	2008	12
	How to read a person like a book	Gerard I. Nierenberg	1971	11
	How to Talk to Anyone	Leil Lowndes	1999	10
	Body language	James Borg	2008	9
	The Everything Body Language Book	Shelly Hagen	2007	8
	Reading people	Jo-Ellan Dimitrius	1998	7
	Pragmatics and non-verbal communication	Tim Wharton	2009	7
	Silent messages	Albert Mehrabian	1971	6
	Essentials of nonverbal communication	Mark L. Knapp	1980	6
	Love signals	David B. Givens	1983	6
	Nonverbal behavior in interpersonal relations	Virginia P. Richmond	1987	6
	Bodytalk	Desmond Morris	1994	6
	Get people to do what you want	Gregory Hartley	2008	6
	Winning Body Language	Mark Bowden	2010	6
	Nonverbal Communication	Albert Mehrabian	1972	5
	Body language	Allan Pease	1984	5
	The Power of Body Language	Tonya Reiman	2007	5
	Convince them in 90 seconds or less	Nicholas Boothman	2010	5
	Body Language	Robert Phipps	2011	5
	The Dictionary of Body Language	Joe Navarro	2018	5
	How to read a person like a book	Gerard I. Nierenberg	1971	4
	Mental Representations	Allan Paivio	1986	4
	Body language	Susan Quilliam	1995	4
	I Know What You're Thinking	Lillian Glass	2002	4

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

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