📚 Judges

The bench in biography and criticism: appointment fights, landmark opinions, and the life-writing that followed.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject judges 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
	The diary of Samuel Sewall	Sewall, Samuel	1764	38
	Holmes-Laski letters	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	1952	33
	I Know This to Be True	Geoff Blackwell	2016	25
	Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments	United States	1992	18
	The lives of the chief justices of England	John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell	1849	17
	After the Madness	Sol Wachtler	1997	14
	Charles Evans Hughes	Merlo John Pusey	1951	13
	Brandeis	Lewis J. Paper	1983	13
	Trends in the Judiciary	David Lowe	2013	13
	John Jay	Pellew, George	1890	11
	Sandra Day O'Connor	Joan Biskupic	2005	11
	Men in Black	Mark R. Levin	2005	9
	American courts	Lawrence Baum	1986	8
	Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Sir John Eardley Wilmot, knt	John Eardley-Wilmot	1802	7
	Biographia juridica	Edward Foss	1870	7
	The life of Judge Jeffreys	Henry Brodribb Irving	1898	7
	College algebra	William Le Roy Hart	1926	7
	The murder of the Mahatma	Gopal Das Khosla	1963	6
	The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System	Benjamin H. Barton	2010	6
	Conversations with RBG	Jeffrey Rosen	2019	5
	Zur Soziologie des Richters in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland	Klaus Zwingmann	1966	4
	Lord Mansfield	Edmund Heward	1979	4
	John Marshall, defender of the Constitution	Francis N. Stites	1981	4
	Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining	Judy Sheindlin	1996	4
	Judge Sewall's Apology	Richard Francis	2005	4
	Sonia Sotomayor	Sylvia Mendoza	2017	4
	Neither Roses Nor Thorns	H. R. Khanna	1985	3
	Judicial Independence	Shimon Shetreet	1985	3
	Judges	David Pannick	1987	3
	I dissent	Debbie Levy	2016	3

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

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