📚 Christianity

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Two thousand years of the faith that shaped the West — scripture, doctrine and church history, and the arguments that split it again and again.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject christianity 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Orthodoxy	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1874	551
Saint Francis of Assisi	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1923	547
Confessions	Augustine of Hippo	1482	451
Mere Christianity	C. S. Lewis	1943	109
The Power of Positive Thinking	Norman Vincent Peale	1952	91
The Profits of Religion (An Essay in Economic Interpretation)	Upton Sinclair	1900	77
De coelo et ejus mirabilibus	Emanuel Swedenborg	1867	57
Vie de Jésus	Ernest Renan	1863	53
Surprised by Joy	C. S. Lewis	1955	40
The Way of Zen	Alan Watts	1957	31
Angels	Billy Graham	1975	29
Satan is alive and well on planet earth	Hal Lindsey	1972	24
Gemeinsames Leben	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	1954	22
Battlefield of the Mind	Joyce Meyer	1995	22
Boundaries	Henry Cloud	1992	15
Boundaries in dating	Henry Cloud	2000	15
Reaching out	Henri J. M. Nouwen	1975	13
Wild at Heart	John Eldredge	2001	13
Living Buddha, living Christ	Thích Nhất Hạnh	1995	12
Prayer	Richard J. Foster	1992	9
Think big	Ben Carson	1992	8
The Power of a Praying Woman	Stormie Omartian	2002	8
The God who is there	Francis A. Schaeffer	1968	7
The Divine Conspiracy	Dallas Willard	1998	7
The Meaning of Marriage	Timothy J. Keller	2011	7
The Spirit of the Disciplines	Dallas Willard	1988	6
The path of loneliness	Elisabeth Elliot	1993	5
'Lord change me!'	Evelyn Christenson	1977	4
Passion and Purity	Elisabeth Elliot	1984	4
A tale of three kings	Gene Edwards	1980	3

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

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