📚 Carols

The seasonal song, mostly older than its season: the collections, the minuet ancestors, the Victorians’ rescue work.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject carols 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
	215. Best Christmas Songs Ever	Hal Leonard Corp.	1986	16
	The Oxford Book of Carols	Percy Dearmer	1928	15
	Discover the Lead	Warner Brothers	2002	14
	Christmas Carols	Hal Leonard Corp.	1982	13
	White Christmas	Irving Berlin	1990	13
	Brian Wildsmith's the Twelve Days of Christmas	Brian Wildsmith	1940	12
	Christmas Instrumental Solos	Alfred Publishing	2003	10
	Songs, carols, and other miscellaneous poems	Richard Hill	1907	6
	Tomie Depaola's Book of Christmas Carols	Tomie dePaola	1987	6
	Christmas and Christmas lore	T. G. Crippen	1923	5
	A selection of English carols	Richard Leighton Greene	1962	5
	Christmas Carols, New and Old	Henry Ramsden Bramley	1870	4
	The story of the carol	Edmondstoune Duncan	1911	4
	Carols	William J. Phillips	1921	4
	The English carol	Erik Routley	1958	4
	Carols for Christmas	David Willcocks	1983	4
	Christmas Carols	Shane Weller	1992	4
	Sledding Fun	Peggy Otwell	2000	4
	O Holy Night	Public Domain	2004	4
	Christmas carols, ancient and modern	William Sandys	1833	3
	Songs of the Nativity	William Henry Husk	1868	3
	Christmas carols new and old	John Stainer	1871	3
	The Hawthorn book of Christmas carols	Cyril Vincent Taylor	1957	3
	The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols	Elizabeth Poston	1978	3
	The Christmas Revels Songbook: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice	John M. Langstaff	1985	3
	Catmas Carols	Laurie Loughlin	1993	3
	Christmas carols for cats	Julie Hope	1996	3
	Specimens of old Christmas carols	Thomas Wright	1841	2
	A garland of Christmas carols	John Camden Hotten	1861	2
	Christmas carols	Phillips Brooks	1903	2

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

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