📚 Reptiles

Scaled and cold-blooded: snakes, lizards, turtles, and crocodiles — their classification, their care, and their reputation.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject reptiles 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
	Reptile (DK Eyewitness)	Colin McCarthy	1991	24
	Reptiles and birds, a popular account of their various orders	Louis Figuier	1869	15
	I Wonder Why Snakes Shed Their Skin	Amanda O'Neill	1996	15
	Reptiles and amphibians	Herbert S. Zim	1953	13
	Reptiles and Amphibians	Marshall Cavendish Corporation	2002	13
	Biology of the Reptilia	Carl Gans	1969	12
	Eye Wonder	DK Publishing	2001	12
	Do you know about reptiles?	Buffy Silverman	2010	12
	Amphibians and reptiles	Trevor J. C. Beebee	2000	10
	Biology of fishes	Q. Bone	1982	9
	Scales	Jennifer Boothroyd	2011	9
	A field guide to western reptiles and amphibians	Robert C. Stebbins	1966	8
	Endangered and Extinct Reptiles	Jennifer Boothroyd	2014	8
	Reptiles of the world	Raymond Lee Ditmars	1910	7
	Reptiles and batrachians	E. G. Boulenger	1914	7
	The reptiles of the Indo-Australian archipelago	Nelly de Rooij	1915	7
	Incredible Reptiles (Freestyle Express: Incredible Creatures)	John Townsend	2004	7
	Reptiles	Jaclyn Jaycox	2018	7
	The reptile book	Raymond Lee Ditmars	1907	6
	Reptiles	Angus d'A Bellairs	1957	6
	Reptiles & Amphibians of Australia	Harold G. Cogger	1975	6
	Lizards, frogs, and polliwogs	Douglas Florian	2001	6
	Contributions to Texan herpetology	Strecker, John Kern	1909	5
	How to hide a crocodile & other reptiles	Ruth Heller	1986	5
	A field guide to reptiles & amphibians	Conant, Roger	1991	5
	Reptile Body Parts	Clare Lewis	2015	5
	Scaly, slippery creatures	Matthew Rake	2015	5
	Reptiles	Janet Riehecky	2017	5
	North American herpetology	John Edwards Holbrook	1842	4
	Health and welfare of captive reptiles	Clifford Warwick	1899	4

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

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