📚 Genius

19 works · ordered by editions in print

The exceptional mind as a subject: testing, biography, and the nature-nurture fight it keeps restarting.

Below are the 19 works carrying the subject genius 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
Cosmic Consciousness	Richard Maurice Bucke	1894	26
Mental Floss	Mental Floss editors	2006	11
The man of genius	Cesare Lombroso	1891	10
An essay on genius	Alexander Gerard	1774	6
Der geniale mensch	Hermann Türck	1898	6
Locos egregios	Juan Antonio Vallejo-Nágera	1978	6
The psychology of men of genius	Ernst Kretschmer	1931	5
Barbara	Barbara Newhall Follett	1966	4
Genius	Harold Bloom	2002	4
Philistine and genius	Sidis, Boris	1911	3
Originality	T. Sharper Knowlson	1917	3
The Prodigy	Amy Wallace	1986	3
Buzan's book of genius	Tony Buzan	1994	3
Genius 101	Dean Keith Simonton	2009	3
Hidden Habits of Genius	Craig Wright	2020	3
The making of a genius	Aaron Stern	1971	2
The Creative Brain	Nancy C. Andreasen	2006	1
Tame paṇa banī śako cho jīniyasa	Aparṇā Majūmadāra	2010	1
Genius	Andrew Robinson	2011	1

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

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