📚 Religion

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with religion on their catalogue record, first published between 1200 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject religion in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 282,752 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
Bible	Bible	1200	6,110
Orthodoxy	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1874	551
Saint Francis of Assisi	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1923	547
The Golden Bough	James George Frazer	1890	374
The Varieties of Religious Experience	William James	1817	267
Custom and myth	Andrew Lang	1884	131
Pagan & Christian creeds	Edward Carpenter	1920	82
Coloring Book of Shadows	Amy Cesari	2016	52
Egyptian ideas of the future life	E. A. Wallis Budge	1899	47
The Power of Now	Eckhart Tolle	1997	45
A Grief Observed	C. S. Lewis	1961	44
Natural law in the spiritual world	Henry Drummond	1835	43
Zukunft einer Illusion	Sigmund Freud	1928	43
Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses	Mircea Eliade	1976	43
Mas̲navī	Rumi (Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī)	1851	39
Magic and religion	Andrew Lang	1901	38
Bhagavad-Gita	Vyasa	1944	38
The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins	2001	34
The Teachings of Don Juan	Carlos Castaneda	1968	31
Traité d'histoire des religions	Mircea Eliade	1900	30
Religions of the world	Lewis M. Hopfe	1976	27
Stories of the Prophets	James Ross (Ras)	1980	27
Fröhliche Wissenschaft	Friedrich Nietzsche	1960	23
The Wisdom of Insecurity	Alan Watts	1951	22
Gottesfinsternis	Martin Buber	1952	22
Journey to Ixtlan	Carlos Castaneda	1973	20
The Book	Alan Watts	1966	19
Egyptian magic	E. A. Wallis Budge	1899	17
The religions of man	Huston Smith	1958	15
The Language of God	Francis S. Collins	2006	14

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

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