📚 Confucius

The Analects and the bureaucracy they made: ritual, propriety and two thousand years of commentary.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject confucius 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
	Lun yu	Confucius	1750	103
	K'ungtse und der konfuzianismus	Richard Wilhelm	1928	9
	Moral exemplars in the Analects	Amy Olberding	2011	8
	Confucius	Meher McArthur	2011	7
	Analects	Confucius	2013	7
	The First Holy One	Maurice Collis	1948	6
	Remastering Morals with Aristotle and Confucius	May Sim	2007	6
	Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle	Jiyuan Yu	2009	6
	Confucian Reflections	Philip J. Ivanhoe	2013	5
	Confucius and Chinese humanism	Pierre Do-Dinh	1969	4
	Confucius and the Analects	Bryan W. Van Norden	2001	4
	Confucius	Jonathan Clements	2004	4
	Confucius from the Heart	Yu Dan	2009	4
	Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan	Stephen Durrant	2016	4
	Concise Companion to Confucius	Paul R. Goldin	2017	4
	Confucius, the man and the myth	Herrlee Glessner Creel	1949	3
	Analects of Confucius	The Arthur Estate	1956	3
	Confucius: in life and legend	Betty Kelen	1971	3
	Confucius--the secular as sacred	Herbert Fingarette	1972	3
	Confucius	Raymond Stanley Dawson	1981	3
	Confucius and ancient China	Theodore Rowland-Entwistle	1986	3
	Founders of faith	Michael Carrithers	1989	3
	Dao Companion To The Analects	Amy Olberding	2013	3
	The Gongyang Commentary on The Spring and Autumn Annals	H. Miller	2015	3
	Confucius in the Technology Realm	Darryl Vidal	2015	3
	Confucius	Peimin Ni	2016	3
	Confucius	Kaizuka, Shigeki	1956	2
	Critiques of Confucius in contemporary China	Kam Louie	1980	2
	Confucius in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes)	Paul Strathern	1999	2
	The Five "Confucian" Classics	Michael Nylan	2001	2

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

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