📚 Secret Societies

Oaths, lodges, and conspiracies: the documented history of the groups that required discretion, and the myths around them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject secret societies 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
	Secret Societies and Subversive Movements	Nesta H. Webster	1972	13
	The secret societies of all ages and countries	Charles William Heckethorn	1875	11
	The secret societies of all ages and countries	Charles William Heckethorn	1875	10
	A history of secret societies	Arkon Daraul	1961	9
	Secret societies and subversive movements	Nesta Helen Webster	1924	8
	The secret teachings of all ages	Manly Palmer Hall	1975	5
	The Secret Teachings of All Ages	Manly Palmer Hall	1978	5
	America's secret establishment	Antony Cyril Sutton	1983	5
	Secret Societies (Fact or Fiction)	Stewart Ross	1996	5
	And the Truth Shall Set You Free	David Icke	1997	5
	Secret societies	David Macdill	1867	4
	Secret Societies	John Lawrence Reynolds	2006	4
	Conspiracies and Secret Societies	Brad Steiger	2006	4
	Secret Societies	David V. Barrett	1997	3
	Secret societies	David Southwell	2007	3
	Secret societies-- and how they affect our lives today	Sylvia Browne	2007	3
	The secret history of the world	Mark Booth	2008	3
	Magic Is Dead	Ian Frisch	2019	3
	Sociedades secretas	A. Tenório d' Albuquerque	1957	2
	Conspirators' hierarchy	Coleman, John	1992	2
	Secret and suppressed	Jim Keith	1993	2
	The international encyclopedia of secret societies and fraternal orders	Alan Axelrod	1997	2
	The secret behind secret societies	Jon Rappoport	1998	2
	Secret societies of America's elite	Steven Sora	2002	2
	The Secret Societies Handbook	Michael Bradley	2004	2
	Secret Societies: Gardiner's Forbidden Knowledge	Philip Gardiner	2007	2
	A Brief History of Secret Societies	David V. Barrett	2007	2
	Cults, conspiracies, and secret societies	Arthur Goldwag	2009	2
	Members only	Julie Tibbott	2014	2
	West African secret societies	Frederick William Butt-Thompson	1929	1

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

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