📚 Personal Narratives

Books with personal narratives on their catalogue record, first published between 1930 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject personal narratives in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 82,745 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
	Het Achterhuis	Anne Frank	1944	294
	Homage to Catalonia	George Orwell	1938	169
	... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen	Viktor Emil Frankl	1946	111
	Śmierć Miasta	Władysław Szpilman	1946	55
	La tregua	Primo Levi	1963	54
	Born on the Fourth of July	Ron Kovic	1976	39
	The Lord God Made them All (All Creatures Great and Small #7)	James Herriot	1981	30
	Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken	Carl Gustav Jung	1961	26
	Fate is the Hunter	Ernest K. Gann	1961	24
	Child of the Holocaust	Jack Kuper	1967	24
	Testament of youth	Vera Brittain	1933	22
	Por Estas Calles Bravas	Piri Thomas	1967	20
	Works (La tregua / Se questo è un uomo)	Primo Levi	1963	19
	Things I Remember	Marii͡a grand duchess of Russia	1930	18
	Five chimneys	Olga Lengyel	1947	18
	Sonnenblume	Simon Wiesenthal	1969	18
	Jeszcze dzień życia	Ryszard Kapuściński	1986	18
	"The Good War"	Studs Terkel	1984	16
	The plague and I.	Betty MacDonald	1948	15
	Anus Mundi	Wiesław Kielar	1972	13
	I Have Lived a Thousand Years	Livia Bitton-Jackson	1997	10
	The Checklist Manifesto	Atul Gawande	2010	10
	The Happiest Man on Earth	Eddie Jaku	2020	10
	The Forgotten Soldier	Guy Sajer	1971	9
	Het verstoorde leven	Etty Hillesum	1986	8
	How I raised myself from failure to success in selling	Bettger, Frank.	1949	7
	Chickenhawk	Mason, Robert	1983	7
	Thinking in Pictures	Temple Grandin	1995	6
	In search of Fatima	Ghada Karmi	2002	5
	Dry tears	Nechama Tec	1982	4

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

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