📚 Speed Reading

The rapid-reading movement and the research that punctured it — a shelf worth having for both halves.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject speed reading 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
	Speed reading	Tony Buzan	1971	22
	Reading faster and understanding more	Wanda M. Miller	1900	13
	Power of Verbal Intelligence	Tony Buzan	2002	10
	Read better, read faster	Manya De Leeuw	1965	8
	Mastering Speed Reading	Norman C. Maberly	1966	7
	Faster reading self-taught	Harry Shefter	1958	6
	10 days to faster reading	Abby Marks-Beale	2001	6
	Speed Reading Made Easy	Nila Banton Smith	1963	5
	Breakthrough rapid reading	Peter Kump	1979	5
	Rapid reading	Geoffrey A. Dudley	1964	4
	Mastering Speed Reading	Norman C. Maberly	1966	4
	Rapid and efficient reading	Colin Mares	1967	4
	Super reader	Bonnie Bauman	1977	4
	Triple your reading speed	Wade E. Cutler	1985	4
	How to read faster and remember more	Morris N. Young	1965	3
	How to Read Better and Enjoy It More	Ben E. Johnson	1973	3
	Speed reading made easy	Arlyne F. Rial	1976	3
	Rates of comprehension	Allen Berger	1976	3
	Double Your Reading Speed	Reading Laboratory	1979	3
	Super reading secrets	Howard Stephen Berg	1989	3
	Remember everything you read	Stanley D. Frank	1990	3
	The PhotoReading whole mind system	Paul R. Scheele	1993	3
	Power Reading	Phyllis Mindell	1993	3
	The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program	Stanley D. Frank	1994	3
	Reading smart	Nicholas Reid Schaffzin	1994	3
	Speed Reading	Tina Konstant	2000	3
	How to Learn Almost Anything in 48 Hours	Tansel Ali	2016	3
	The art of rapid reading	Walter B. Pitkin	1929	2
	Rapid reading made simple	John Waldman	1958	2
	Reading speed and strategy for the business and professional man	Kenneth P. Baldridge	1966	2

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

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