📚 Festivals

Holy days and their calendars: the rites, the folklore recorded around them, and the church’s endless reshaping.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject festivals 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
	E.M. Forster	Lionel Trilling	1943	23
	Dancing in the Streets	Barbara Ehrenreich	2006	11
	The triumphs of London	Thomas Jordan	1675	10
	Londons triumphs	Thomas Jordan	1676	8
	The book of festivals	Dorothy Gladys Spicer	1937	7
	Risk and Hazard Management for Festivals and Events	Peter Wynn-Moylan	2017	6
	The English festivals	Laurence Whistler	1947	5
	Autumn Equinox, The	Ellen Jackson	2000	5
	Yule	Susan Pesznecker	2015	5
	Ceremonials of common days	Abbie Graham	1923	4
	Chinese festivals	Eberhard, Wolfram	1952	4
	Japanese festivals	Helen Bauer	1965	4
	The Japanese floral calendar	Ernest W. Clement	1905	3
	Attische Feste	Ludwig August Deubner	1932	3
	In Tune with the World	Josef Pieper	1965	3
	German holidays and folk customs	Dieter Kramer	1972	3
	Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia Volume 11	Charles M. Schulz	1990	3
	World of Festivals	Philip Steele	1996	3
	Jump Up	Luisah Teish	2000	3
	The longest day	Wendy Pfeffer	2010	3
	Celebrations; the complete book of American holidays	Myers, Robert J.	1972	2
	Variations on the Imperial theme	Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann	1977	2
	The pagan book of days	Nigel Pennick	1992	2
	Festivals, fairs, and customs of Himachal Pradesh	Mian Goverdhan Singh	1992	2
	Lammas	Anna Franklin	2001	2
	The shortest day	Wendy Pfeffer	2003	2
	Legends of ten chinese traditional festivals	Shu-fen Li	2003	2
	Horse song	Ted Lewin	2008	2
	Fiber gathering	Joanne Seiff	2009	2
	Trick or Treat	Lisa Morton	2013	2

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

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