📚 Spiders

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Webs, venom, and eight eyes: the arachnid world, the science of it, and the fear that keeps it in the news.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject spiders 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
Systema naturae	Carl Linnaeus	1748	55
The Life of the Spider	Jean-Henri Fabre	1912	37
Life of the Spider	Jean-Henri Fabre	1912	21
I Wonder Why Spiders Spin Webs and Other Questions About Creepy-crawlies (I Wonder Why)	Amanda O'Neill	1995	19
The spider and the fly	Mary Botham Howitt	1830	16
Spiders' Secrets	Richard Platt	2001	16
Spiders	Gail Gibbons	1993	14
Spiders	Rebecca Gilpin	2002	12
Spiders and their kin	Herbert Walter Levi	1968	11
Insects and Spiders of the World	Marshall Cavendish Corporation	2002	11
Amazing spiders	Alexandra Parsons	1990	8
Spiders	Timothy L. Biel	1991	7
Are You A Spider? (Backyard Books)	Judy Allen	2000	7
Super Spiders	Charlotte Guillain	2013	7
Tarantula vs. tarantula hawk	Lindsy O'Brien	2016	7
The world of spiders	W. S. Bristowe	1958	6
Biologie der Spinnen	Rainer F. Foelix	1979	6
Spider behaviour	Marie Elisabeth Herberstein	2010	6
Spiders	Seymour Simon	2003	5
Deadly Spiders	Matt Turner	2017	5
The tarantula keeper's guide	Stanley A. Schultz	1984	4
Spider's Lunch	Joanna Cole	1995	4
Spider	Karen Hartley	1999	4
Magic School Bus Explores the World of Bugs	Nancy White	2001	4
I'm Trying To Love Spiders	Bethany Barton	2015	4
The fascinating world of spiders	Angels Julivert	1992	3
Bugs	Jinny Johnson	1995	3
Anansi goes fishing	Eric A. Kimmel	1992	2
All About Bugs	D. K. Sullivan	1995	2
Spinning spiders	Ruth Berman	1998	2

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

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