📚 Clouds

The readable sky: classification, how drops form, and the photography and folklore that grew up under them.

Below are the 29 works carrying the subject clouds 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
	The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century	John Ruskin	1884	23
	The Cloud Book	Tomie dePaola	1975	17
	The forms of water in clouds & rivers, ice & glaciers	John Tyndall	1872	12
	Shapes in the Sky	Josepha Sherman	2003	8
	Storage batteries	George Wood Vinal	1924	6
	Down Comes the Rain	Franklyn M. Branley	1997	6
	The Cloudspotter's Guide	Gavin Pretor-Pinney	2006	6
	Essay on the Modifications of Clouds	Luke Howard	2011	6
	Cloud studies	Arthur William Clayden	1905	5
	Cloud and weather atlas	Hugh Duncan Grant	1944	5
	Instant Weather Forecasting	Alan Watts	1968	5
	Cloud forms according to the international classification	Great Britain. Meteorological Office.	1918	4
	Clouds	Anne F. Rockwell	2008	4
	Reading the Clouds	Oliver Perkins	2018	4
	Instant weather forecasting	Alan Watts	1968	3
	Cloud dynamics	L. T. Matveev	1984	3
	Clouds	Marcia K. Vaughan	1990	3
	Cloud Dynamics	Jr., Robert A. Houze	1994	3
	A Cloudy Day	Robin Nelson	2001	3
	Cloud Dynamics, Volume 53 (International Geophysics)	Jr., Robert A. Houze	1994	2
	Peterson First Guide to Clouds and Weather	John A. Day	1998	2
	The book of clouds	John A. Day	2003	2
	Clouds	Marion Dane Bauer	2004	2
	International cloud atlas	World Meteorological Organization	1956	1
	A drop of water	Sam Rosenfeld	1970	1
	How to make a cloud	Jeanne Bendick	1971	1
	[al-Riyāḥ wa-al-saḥab wa-al-miyāh wa-al-biḥār]	Khālid Fāʼiq ʻUbaydī	2005	1
	Cloudspotter's Guide	Gavin Pretor-Pinney	2006	1
	Cloud Book	Richard Hamblyn	2008	1

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

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