📚 The Quakers

The Society of Friends: silence, testimony and the peace-work record that shaped a whole genre of witness.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject quakers 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The History Of The Rise, Increase, And Progress Of The Christian People Called Quakers V1	William Sewel	1722	39
	The journal of George Fox edited from the mss by Norman Penny, F.S.A	George Fox	1852	36
	The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life	Hannah Whitall Smith	1883	31
	Southern Quakers and slavery	Stephen Beauregard Weeks	1896	23
	Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the reputed president of the underground railroad	Levi Coffin	1876	21
	The life of William Penn	Mason Locke Weems	1822	18
	Sally Wister's Journal	Sarah Wister	1902	14
	Christus	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1872	13
	Memories of old friends	Caroline Fox	1882	11
	John Woolman, Quaker	Janet Whitney	1942	11
	Collection of the sufferings of the people called Quakers :	Joseph Besse	1753	10
	Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn	Thomas Clarkson	1813	10
	News of a strumpet co-habiting in the wilderness or, A brief abstract of the spiritual & carnal whoredoms & adulteries of the Quakers in America	Daniel Leeds	1701	9
	Some account of the early part of the life of Elizabeth Ashbridge	Elizabeth Ashbridge	1807	9
	William Penn	Catherine Owens Peare	1956	9
	A journal of the life of Thomas Story	Thomas Story	1747	8
	Memoir of Elizabeth T. King	Elizabeth T. King	1859	7
	Memoirs of the life and gospel labors of Stephen Grellet	Stephen Grellet	1860	6
	Annals of the early Friends	Budge, Frances Anne.	1877	6
	Valiant For The Truth	Ruth Shearman Murray	1883	6
	The Quakers in Puritan England	Hugh Barbour	1964	6
	The fearless Benjamin Lay	Marcus Buford Rediker	2017	6
	The fighting sailor turn'd peaceable Christian	Thomas Lurting	1700	5
	A book of Quaker saints	L. V. Hodgkin	1917	5
	Elizabeth Fry, Quaker heroine	Janet Whitney	1936	5
	The Quaker reader	Jessamyn West	1962	5
	The Quiet Rebels	Margaret Hope Bacon	1969	5
	Friend	Jane Yolen	1972	5
	A Quaker book of wisdom	Robert Lawrence Smith	1998	5
	Memoirs of the life of Isaac Penington	Isaac Penington	1807	4

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

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