📚 Guilt

Books with guilt on their catalogue record, first published between 1844 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject guilt in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,815 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Your Erroneous Zones	Wayne W. Dyer	1976	48
	Begrebet angest	Søren Kierkegaard	1844	28
	All My Sons	Arthur Miller	1947	24
	On shame and the search for identity	Helen Merrell Lynd	1958	22
	Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern	Alexander Mitscherlich	1967	15
	The concept of anxiety	Søren Kierkegaard	1844	12
	Healing the shame that binds you	Bradshaw, John	1988	11
	Shame, Guilt, and Alcoholism	Ronald Potter-Efron	2002	11
	Die Panne	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	1956	10
	Vraie ou fausse culpabilité	Paul Tournier	1962	10
	Guilt and its Vicissitudes	Judith M. Hughes	2007	10
	Perfect Madness	Judith Warner	2005	9
	So You've Been Publicly Shamed	Jon Ronson	2015	8
	Guilt	Caryll Houselander	1951	7
	Guilt and redemption	Lewis Joseph Sherrill	1945	6
	The compulsion to confess	Theodor Reik	1959	5
	The triumph of the therapeutic	Philip Rieff	1966	5
	Shame and Grace	Lewis B. Smedes	1993	5
	Guilt	Caryll Houselander	1951	4
	Shame and guilt	Gerhart Piers	1953	4
	Guilt	Edward V. Stein	1968	4
	Shame and Guilt in Neurosis	Helen Block Lewis	1971	4
	The psychology of shame	Gershen Kaufman	1989	4
	Unashamed	Jessie Minassian	2015	4
	The root is man	Dwight Macdonald	1940	3
	Guilt and Grace	Paul Tournier	1962	3
	The guilt trip	Hal Lindsey	1972	3
	The scapegoat complex	Sylvia Brinton Perera	1985	3
	Elogio de La Culpa	Marcos Aguinis	1993	3
	Shame, the power of caring	Gershen Kaufman	1980	2

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

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