📚 College Readers

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with college readers on their catalogue record, first published between 1940 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject college readers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,781 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Wordsmith - A Guide to College Writing	Pamela Arlov	1999	43
The Norton field guide to writing	Richard H. Bullock	2006	36
Steps to writing well	Jean Wyrick	1979	23
Literature	Richard Abcarian	2006	20
Writing Arguments	John D. Ramage	2000	19
Elements of Argument	Annette T. Rottenberg	1985	18
Literature	Dana Gioia	1994	18
Writing arguments	John D. Ramage	1989	17
The St. Martin's Guide to Writing	Rise B. Axelrod	1985	16
Yookoso!	Yasu-Hiko Tohsaku	1993	15
Thinking critically	John Chaffee	1985	14
Imaginative writing	Janet Burroway	2002	14
Reading with meaning	Dorothy Grant Hennings	1990	13
Reasoning & writing well	Betty M. Dietsch	1997	13
Back to the Lake	Thomas Cooley	2015	13
Patterns	Mary Lou Conlin	1983	12
Dreams and inward journeys	Marjorie Ford	1989	12
Technical writing	Diana C. Reep	1991	12
The Norton Sampler	Thomas Cooley	1979	11
Reading critically, writing well	Rise B. Axelrod	1987	11
Writing in the Disciplines	Mary Lynch Kennedy	1987	11
A complete course in freshman English	Harry Shaw	1940	10
Structured reading	Lynn Quitman Troyka	1978	10
Guide to college reading	Kathleen T. McWhorter	1986	10
Conversations	Jack Selzer	1991	10
The Longman reader	Judith Nadell	2003	10
Everyone's an Author with Readings	Andrea Lunsford	2016	10
Reading for results	Laraine E. Flemming	1983	9
Poetry	Michael Meyer	1994	9
The Norton Field Guide to Writing--Fourth Edition	Richard Bullock	2016	9

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

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