📚 Social Sciences

Books with social sciences on their catalogue record, first published between 1848 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social sciences in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 105,899 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Principles of Political Economy	John Stuart Mill	1848	133
	How we think	John Dewey	1909	86
	The Open Society and Its Enemies (1+2)	Karl Popper	1945	76
	Detskai︠a︡ boleznʹ "levizny" v kommunizme	Vladimir Il’ich Lenin	1920	65
	Publication Manual of the American Psycological Association	American Psychological Association.	1952	45
	The Poverty of Historicism	Karl Popper	1956	45
	When Breath Becomes Air	Paul Kalanithi	2016	35
	How to Lie with Statistics	Darrell Huff	1954	29
	The Emperor of All Maladies	Siddhartha Mukherjee	2010	29
	Social Science	Elgin F. Hunt	1966	28
	Hell's Angels	Hunter S. Thompson	1966	27
	Mathematics with applications	Margaret L. Lial	1974	27
	Equality	Richard H. Tawney	1931	25
	Masse und Macht	Elias Canetti	1960	23
	L'imagination sociologique	C. Wright Mills	1959	22
	Research Design	John W. Creswell	1994	21
	Social Sciences	Kath Woodward	2003	21
	Criminology	Eamonn Carrabine	2004	20
	The practice of social research	Earl R. Babbie	1975	19
	Caste	Isabel Wilkerson	2020	17
	Human Relations in Organizations	Robert N. Lussier	1990	16
	Introduction to criminology	Frank E. Hagan	1990	15
	Invisible Women	Caroline Criado Perez	2019	15
	Qualitative Research	Renata Tesch	1990	14
	Our social world	Jeanne H. Ballantine	2006	14
	Elementary statistics in social research	Jack Levin	1973	13
	Research methods in the social sciences	Chava Frankfort-Nachmias	1976	13
	Statistical methods for the social sciences	Alan Agresti	1979	13
	Statistics for management	Richard I. Levin & David S. Rubin	1978	12
	Doing your research project	Judith Bell	1986	12

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

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