📚 Lighthouses

Sovereign optics of the coast: the Fresnel lens, the keepers’ logs, and the automation that ended both.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject lighthouses 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
	Records of a Family of Engineers	Robert Louis Stevenson	1912	10
	A course of six lectures on the various forces of matter and their relations to each other	Michael Faraday	1860	8
	Rock lighthouses of Britain	Christopher P. Nicholson	1983	8
	America's lighthouses	F. Ross Holland	1972	6
	Light-House Establishment	United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce	1973	6
	Beacon on the Rock	Peter Williams	2001	6
	Sea Girt Lighthouse	Bill Dunn	2014	6
	A history of lighthouses	Patrick Beaver	1971	5
	Stargazing	Peter Hill	2003	5
	An account of the Bell Rock light house	Robert Stevenson	1824	4
	Lighthouse construction and illumination	Thomas Stevenson	1881	4
	Our seamarks	E. Price Edwards	1884	4
	Lighthouse	Tony Parker	1975	3
	Beacons of light	Gail Gibbons	1990	3
	Brilliant beacons	Eric Jay Dolin	2016	3
	Light-House at Black Rock. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, with communication from the Light-house Board relative to a light-house at Black Rock, Connecticut	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce	1868	2
	Light-house on the Great Shoals, in Dorchester County, Maryland	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce	1882	2
	The Bell Rock lighthouse	Robert Stevenson	1931	2
	Living at a Lighthouse	Luanne Gaykowski Kozma	1986	2
	Lighthouses	Leo Marriott	1999	2
	Lighthouses	Lynn F. Pearson	1999	2
	Lost lighthouses	Tim Harrison	1999	2
	The Ultimate Book of Lighthouses	Samuel Willard Crompton	2000	2
	The Keeper of Lime Rock	Lenore Skomal	2002	2
	The bravest woman in America	Marissa Moss	2011	2
	On Lighthouses	Jazmina Barrera	2020	2
	The coastwise lights of China	China. Hai kuan tsung shui wu ssǔ shu	1932	1
	The lighthouse keepers	Stuart Buchanan	1994	1
	Women of the Lights	Candace Fleming	1996	1
	Legendary lighthouses	Grant, John	1998	1

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

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