📚 Instinct

Books with instinct on their catalogue record, first published between 1872 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject instinct in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 678 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
	The expression of emotions in man and animals	Charles Darwin	1872	62
	Learning and instinct in animals	W. H. Thorpe	1956	26
	Souvenirs entomologiques	Jean-Henri Fabre	1879	18
	The territorial imperative	Robert Ardrey	1966	15
	An introduction to social psychology	McDougall, William	1908	14
	Les merveilles de l'instinct chez les insectes	Jean-Henri Fabre	1913	13
	Instinct in man	Ronald Fletcher	1957	11
	Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?	Frans de Waal	2016	11
	The study of instinct	Tinbergen, Niko	1951	10
	Imprinting and early learning	Wladyslaw Sluckin	1964	10
	Human nature and its remaking	William Earnest Hocking	1918	7
	The territorial imperative	Robert Ardrey	1966	7
	Habit and instinct	C. Lloyd Morgan	1896	6
	Instinct in man	Drever, James	1917	6
	Instinct and personality	A. Campbell Garnett	1928	6
	Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Theory of Instincts	Humberto Nagera	2014	6
	Instinct	Paul A. Chadbourne	1872	5
	Instinct In Man	James Drever	1917	5
	Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals	Charles Darwin	1965	5
	Pleasure and Instinct	Allen, A H Burlton, A. H. Burlton	2013	5
	Synthesizing Nature-Nurture	Gilbert Gottlieb	2014	5
	Instinct and experience	C. Lloyd Morgan	1912	4
	Instinct	Bernard, L. L.	1924	4
	Grundlegung der Wissenschaft vom Ausdruck	Ludwig Klages	1936	4
	De l'instinct à l'esprit	Charles Baudouin	1950	4
	Instinctive behavior	Claire H. Schiller	1957	4
	Pleasure Instinct	Gene Wallenstein	2008	4
	The genius of instinct	Hendrie Weisinger	2009	4
	Mental Evolution in Animals	George John Romanes	2011	4
	Instinct	T. D. Jakes	2014	4

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

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