📚 Sharks

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Four hundred million years of refined predators: species, behavior, attacks, biology, and a reputation the data keeps correcting.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject sharks 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Shark	Miranda MacQuitty	1992	24
Close to shore	Michael Capuzzo	2001	19
Shadows in the sea	Harold W. McCormick	1963	14
Sharks	Seymour Simon	1995	12
Sharks	Gail Gibbons	1992	11
Dolphins and Sharks	Mary Pope Osborne	2002	10
Sharks	John Bonnett Wexo	1984	9
Shark Trouble	Peter Benchley	2002	9
Shark Life	Karen Wojtyla	2005	9
Look, a Shark!	Tessa Kenan	2016	8
Whale Sharks	Deborah Nuzzolo	2017	8
Tiger Sharks	Deborah Nuzzolo	2017	8
Shark	Marty Snyderman	1995	7
Sharks	Angelo Mojetta	1997	7
Shark hunters	Ben Cropp	1964	6
Blue meridian	Peter Matthiessen	1971	6
Sharks	Howard Hall	1990	6
The great white shark	James Hirsch	2001	6
I Am a Shark	Darlene R. Stille	2004	6
Soul Surfer	Bethany Hamilton	2004	6
Amazing Sharks!	Sarah L. Thomson	2005	6
I Want to Be a Great White Shark	Thomas Kingsley Troupe	2015	6
Album of sharks	Tom McGowen	1977	5
Hungry, Hungry Sharks	Mary Pope Osborne	1986	5
Shark	Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch	1987	5
Chomp!	Melvin Berger	1999	5
Twelve Days of Terror	Richard G. Fernicola	2001	5
All About Sharks	Jim Arnosky	2003	5
The secret life of sharks	A. Peter Klimley	2003	5
Surprising Sharks	Nicola Davies	2004	5

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

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