📚 Castles

Stone and strategy: fortification, life inside the walls, and the ruins that outlived their purpose by centuries.

Below are the 23 works carrying the subject castles 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
	Castle (Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections)	Richard Platt	1994	17
	Old Touraine	Sir Theodore Andrea Cook	1892	15
	Castle	Christopher Gravett	1960	14
	I wonder why castles had moats and other questions about long ago	Philip Steele	1994	14
	The Best-ever Book of Castles (Best-ever Book Of...)	Philip Steele	1995	13
	A Medieval Castle (Inside Story)	Fiona MacDonald	1990	12
	Irish castles and castellated houses	Harold Graham Leask	1941	11
	What Were Castles for	Phil Roxbee Cox	1994	11
	Les anciens châteaux de France	J. Vacquier	1828	10
	The Scottish castle	Stewart Cruden	1960	10
	Crusader Castles (Hippocrene Insider's Guides Series)	T. E. Lawrence	1936	9
	Castle	David Macaulay	1977	9
	The castles and abbeys of England	Beattie, William	1842	7
	Historic Cyprus	Rupert Gunnis	1936	7
	The English castle	Hugh Braun	1936	7
	The National Trust book of British castles	Paul Bede Johnson	1978	7
	Castles	Sidney Toy	1939	6
	The chateaux of France	François Gébelin	1962	6
	You wouldn't want to live in a medieval castle!	Jacqueline Morley	2008	6
	Castle - How It Works	David Macaulay	1982	4
	Medieval Castle (Mystery History)	Jim Pipe	1996	4
	Life in a medieval castle	Joseph Gies	1974	3
	Castles	Stephanie Turnbull	2004	2

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

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