📚 Missionaries

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Carrying the message: the societies, their converts and the cultures they dismantled, and the archives judging them now.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject missionaries 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Mary Slessor	W. P. Livingstone	1800	47
The Exile	Pearl S. Buck	1936	36
Mountains Beyond Mountains	Tracy Kidder	2003	31
Aus meinem Leben und Denken	Albert Schweitzer	1931	25
Ann of Ava	Ethel Daniels Hubbard	1913	19
Memoirs of Mrs. Harriet Newell	Harriet Atwood Newell	1800	15
Albert Schweitzer	George Seaver	1944	15
The small woman	Alan Burgess	1957	15
Robert Moffat	David J. Deane	1880	14
The Book of Missionary Heroes	Basil Mathews	1922	13
Shadow of the Almighty	Elisabeth Elliot	1958	13
Forty-five years in China	Timothy Richard	1916	12
By searching	Isobel Kuhn	1957	10
God's Smuggler	Andrew Brother.	1968	10
Something beautiful for God	Malcolm Muggeridge	1971	10
The Book of Missionary Heroes	Basil Mathews	1922	8
Bruchko	Bruce E. Olson	1977	8
Through Gates of Splendor	Elisabeth Elliot	1957	7
Ten fingers for God	Dorothy Clarke Wilson	1965	7
Lady missionaries in foreign lands	Emma Raymond Pitman	1800	6
Mother Teresa	Anne Sebba	1982	6
The memory palace of Matteo Ricci	Jonathan D. Spence	1984	6
Hudson Taylor's spiritual secret	Frederick Howard Taylor	1932	5
Dr. Ida	Dorothy Clarke Wilson	1959	5
Praying Hyde	E. G. Carre	1987	5
John G. Paton	John Gibson Paton	1889	4
God's smuggler	Andrew Brother.	1967	4
God's tribesman	James C. Hefley	1974	4
Adventuring with Christ	Lester Frank Sumrall	1988	4
David Livingstone	Sam Wellman	1995	4

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

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