📚 Kings and Rulers

Books with kings and rulers on their catalogue record, first published between 1481 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject kings and rulers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 42,632 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
	Histoire de Charles XII	Voltaire	1731	90
	Historia Alexandri Magni	Quintus Curtius Rufus	1481	79
	The Mystery of Mary Stuart	Andrew Lang	1901	56
	History of Cyrus the Great	Jacob Abbott	1850	53
	The Last Days of Hitler	H. R. Trevor-Roper	1947	49
	Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches	Oliver Cromwell	1845	36
	Genghis Khan	Jacob Abbott	1860	34
	Napoléon	Stendhal	1877	30
	Peter the Great	Robert K. Massie	1980	26
	Richard III. König von England. Mythos und Wirklichkeit	Paul Murray Kendall	1955	24
	Napoleon	Emil Ludwig	1925	15
	Inside Europe	John Gunther	1936	14
	Karl XIIs levnad	Frans Gunnar Bengtsson	1935	12
	Babur, the Tiger	Harold Lamb	1961	10
	Brief guide to Kings & Queens of England and Great Britain	Eric R. Delderfield	1964	10
	Kings & queens of England & Scotland	Plantagenet Somerset Fry	1990	9
	In the Shadow of the Empress	Nancy Goldstone	2021	7
	A king's story	Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor	1951	6
	Wo ti chʻien pan sheng	Pu Yi	1964	6
	Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World	Jack Weatherford	2004	6
	The house of Saud	David Holden	1981	5
	Britain's royal families	Alison Weir	1989	5
	Lithoko tsa marena a Basotho	Zakea D Mangoaela	1928	4
	A forest of kings	Linda Schele	1990	3
	When women ruled the world	Kara Cooney	2018	3
	A Comprehensive History of Assam	S. L. Baruah	1985	2
	The talking yam	Cheyenne Randall	1995	2
	The complete royal families of Ancient Egypt	Aidan Dodson	2004	2
	King Emene	'Zulú Ṣofọla	1974	1
	The fugitive king	Elizabeth Rice Handford	1978	1

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

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