📚 Nonviolence

Books with nonviolence on their catalogue record, first published between 1894 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject nonviolence in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,957 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
	The Kingdom of God Is Within You	Лев Толстой	1894	39
	Nonviolent Communication	Marshall B. Rosenberg	1999	38
	The Power of Non-violence	Richard Bartlett Gregg	1934	19
	How Nonviolence Protects the State	Peter Gelderloos	2005	16
	Non-violent resistance	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	1951	14
	Freedom's Battle Being	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	1922	12
	Anarchie et Christianisme	Jacques Ellul	1988	10
	The better angels of our nature	Steven Pinker	2011	10
	Nonviolence in America	Staughton Lynd	1966	9
	From Dictatorship to Democracy	Gene Sharp	2003	9
	Indignez-vous!	Stéphane Hessel	2010	9
	The power of non-violence	Richard Bartlett Gregg	1934	8
	Letter from the Birmingham jail	Martin Luther King Jr.	1963	8
	The trumpet of conscience	Martin Luther King Jr.	1968	8
	Thomas Merton on peace	Thomas Merton	1971	8
	The failure of nonviolence	Peter Gelderloos	2013	8
	Waging Nonviolent Struggle	Gene Sharp	1984	7
	Power kills	R. J. Rummel	1997	7
	Nonviolent action	Ronald M. McCarthy	1997	7
	Nonviolence	Mark Kurlansky	2006	7
	Non-violent action	April Carter	1966	6
	Tolstoy's writings on civil disobedience and non-violence	Лев Толстой	1967	6
	The Pathan unarmed	Mukulika Banerjee	2000	6
	Nonviolent Communication Companion Workbook	Lucy Leu	2003	6
	Violence and Non-Violence in Africa	Pal Ahluwalia	2007	6
	Struggles for an Alternative Globalization	Gwyn Williams	2017	6
	Pathways of Peace	Romina Gurashi	2018	6
	Non-violent coercion	Clarence Marsh Case	1923	5
	Direct action	April Carter	1962	5
	Resistance and contemplation	James W. Douglass	1972	5

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

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