📚 Retirement

Stopping work as an institution: its surprising recent history and the planning industry attached to it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject retirement 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 new retirementality	Mitch Anthony	2001	15
	Social forces and aging	Robert C. Atchley	1984	12
	How to retire happy	Stan Hinden	2000	11
	Planning for Retirement	Patrick Grant	2013	11
	DIY Super for Dummies	Trish Power	2011	9
	Retirement Guide for Canadians	Henry S. Hunnisett	1977	7
	Financial decision making at retirement	David A. Littell	1994	7
	Prime Time	Marc Freedman	1999	7
	Purposeful retirement	Hyrum W. Smith	2017	7
	The number	Lee Eisenberg	2006	6
	Transform Tomorrow	Stig Nybo	2013	6
	Rehearse before you retire	Elmer Otte	1970	5
	Retiring Right	Lawrence J. Kaplan	1986	5
	Retirement on a shoestring	Howells, John	1992	5
	Early Bird	Rodney Rothman	2005	5
	Findependence day	Jonathan Chevreau	2008	5
	The buckets of money retirement solution	Raymond J. Lucia	2010	5
	Take Your Money and Run!	Alex Doulis	1998	4
	Can I retire?	Mike Piper	2010	4
	The measurement of satisfaction in work and retirement	Patricia Cain Smith	1969	3
	The three boxes of life	Richard Nelson Bolles	1978	3
	Invest like Warren Buffett, live like Jimmy Buffett	Luki Vail	1996	3
	Principles of Retirement Planning	Dearborn Financial Institute	1996	3
	Retire on less than you think	Fred Brock	2004	3
	Your retirement, your way	Alan Bernstein	2006	3
	How to retire the cheapskate way	Jeff Yeager	2012	3
	Money Mindset	Jacob Gold	2015	3
	How to plan for a secure retirement	Barry Dickman	1992	2
	The Retirement Catch-Up Guide	Ellen Hoffman	2000	2
	Retire Early-- and Live the Life You Want Now	John F. Wasik	2000	2

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

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