📚 Building

Books with building on their catalogue record, first published between 1938 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject building in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 164,713 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 construction of buildings	Robin Barry	1958	34
	Construction technology	R. Chudley	1973	27
	Fundamentals of building construction	Allen, Edward	1985	22
	Building Construction Handbook	Roy Chudley	2001	18
	Construction planning, equipment, and methods	R. L. Peurifoy	1956	15
	Metric Handbook	Pamela Buxton	2015	15
	Minecraft	Josh Gregory	2017	15
	Architectural graphic standards	Charles George Ramsey	1970	14
	Construction project management	Frederick E. Gould	1999	14
	Managing the Construction Process	Frederick E. Gould	1996	13
	Construction planning, programming, and control	B. Cooke	1997	13
	Building construction	William Barr McKay	1938	12
	Carpentry and Joinery	R. Bayliss	1966	12
	Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors	Rosemary Kilmer	2009	11
	Estimating for building and civil engineering works	Spence Geddes	1960	10
	Carpentry	Leonard Koel	1985	10
	Designing Commercial Interiors	Christine M. Piotrowski	2010	10
	Construction project administration	Edward R. Fisk	1978	8
	Building construction handbook	R. Chudley	1988	8
	Chudley and Greeno's Building Construction Handbook	Roy Chudley	2020	8
	Building construction	W. B. McKay	1944	7
	Building economics	Ivor H. Seeley	1976	7
	Architects' data	Ernst Neufert	1970	6
	Building construction illustrated	Frank Ching	1975	6
	How Buildings Learn	Stewart Brand	1994	6
	Estimating in building construction	Frank R. Dagostino	2003	6
	Estimating construction costs	R. L. Peurifoy	1953	5
	To engineer is human	Henry Petroski	1982	5
	Building science for a cold climate	N. B. Hutcheon	1983	3
	Minecraft Let's Build	Mojang	2019	3

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

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