📚 Motivation

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with motivation on their catalogue record, first published between 1900 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject motivation in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 40,185 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The Magic of Thinking Big	David Joseph Schwartz	1900	38
Towards a psychology of being.	Abraham H. Maslow	1962	26
David and Goliath	Malcolm Gladwell	2013	19
Motivation and personality	Abraham H. Maslow	1954	18
Start with why	Simon Sinek	2009	17
Drive	Daniel H. Pink	2009	15
The Obstacle is the Way	Ryan Holiday	2013	13
Linchpin	Seth Godin	1960	12
Human motivation	Bernard Weiner	1980	11
Punished by Rewards	Alfie Kohn	1993	11
An introduction to motivation	John William Atkinson	1964	10
Motivation	Herbert L. Petri	1981	9
Understanding motivation and emotion	Johnmarshall Reeve	1992	9
Girlboss	Sophia Amoruso	2014	9
The achievement motive	David C. McClelland	1953	6
Maximum Achievement	Brian Tracy	1993	6
How to Raise Your Own Salary	Napoleon Hill	1953	5
The talent code	Daniel Coyle	2009	5
A theory of achievement motivation	John William Atkinson	1966	4
The law of attraction	Abraham (Spirit)	2006	4
Rising strong	Brené Brown	2015	4
Do Epic Shit	Ankur Warikoo	2021	4
Intrinsic motivation	Edward L. Deci	1975	3
A Gentle Reminder	Bianca Sparacino	2020	3
Without a silver spoon	Eddie Iroh	1981	2
The talent code	Daniel Coyle	2009	2
Ignited Minds	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	2012	2
Why we do what we do	Edward L. Deci	1996	1
Gung ho!	Kenneth H. Blanchard	1998	1
The Oxford handbook of human motivation	Richard M. Ryan	2012	1

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

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