📚 Microorganisms

Books with microorganisms on their catalogue record, first published between 1878 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject microorganisms in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,289 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
	Advances in microbial physiology	Robert K. Poole	1996	54
	Advances in microbial physiology	A. H. Rose	1966	26
	Microbe hunters	Paul De Kruif	1926	15
	Plant-microbe interactions	Noel T. Keen	1995	15
	The story of germ life	Herbert William Conn	1897	14
	Textbook of microbiology	William Burrows	1954	14
	The microcosmos coloring book	Lynn Margulis	1986	14
	Microbe hunters	Paul De Kruif	1926	13
	Advances in Microbial Physiology	Anthony H. Rose	1981	13
	The Magic School Bus Meets The Rot Squad	Linda Beech	1995	13
	Brock biology of microorganisms	Michael T. Madigan	1997	11
	Brock, biology of microorganisms	Michael T. Madigan	2000	11
	I Contain Multitudes	Ed Yong	2016	11
	Microbiology	Michael J. Pelczar	1878	8
	Microbiology	Charles Edward Marshall	1912	8
	The microbial world	Roger Y. Stanier	1957	8
	Giant Germ (Magic School Bus Chapter Book)	Eva Moore	2000	7
	Deadly Companions	Dorothy H. Crawford	2007	7
	Gut Bugs Dust Mites and Other Microorganisms You Cant Live Without Fact Finders Nasty But Useful Science Paperback	Mark Weakland	2010	7
	Diet Myth	Tim Spector	2015	7
	Micro-organisms and disease	E. Klein	1885	6
	A textbook of microbiology	Kenneth Livingston Burdon	1939	6
	Biology of microorganisms	Thomas D. Brock	1970	6
	Annual Review of Microbiology	L. Nicholas Ornston	1983	6
	The Magic School Bus In A Pickle	Nancy E. Krulik	1997	6
	Life's engines	Paul G. Falkowski	2015	6
	Defrosting Ancient Microbes	Scott Rogers	2019	6
	Micro-organisms and disease	Edward Emanuel Klein	1885	5
	Bacteriology	Fred Wilbur Tanner	1928	5
	Chemical microbiology	Anthony H. Rose	1968	5

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

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