📚 Subways

Railway beneath the street: the cut-and-cover digs, the tunnel boring fights, and the systems that changed a city’s shape.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject subways 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
	Roy Lichtenstein	Roy Lichtenstein	1967	41
	¿Qué es filosofía?	José Ortega y Gasset	1958	17
	The Story of London's Underground	John Robert Day	1963	12
	Rails through the clay	Alan Arthur Jackson	1962	10
	Subway Art	Martha Cooper	1984	9
	The London Underground	Douglas Rose	1980	7
	London under	Peter Ackroyd	2011	7
	Setting out of tube railways	George Mason Halden	1907	6
	The Subterranean Railway	Christian Wolmar	2004	6
	Subway ceramics	Lee Stookey	1992	5
	Subways	Cooper-Hewitt Museum	1977	4
	Labyrinths of iron	Benson Bobrick	1980	4
	722 miles	Clifton Hood	1993	4
	The air and ventilation of subways	George A. Soper	1908	3
	How the underground works	Paul Elford Garbutt	1963	3
	World's underground railways	H. F. Howson	1964	3
	Bloor-Danforth-University subway extensions	Toronto Transit Commission	1965	3
	Rapid transit subways	James Birkmyer	1978	3
	Subterranean city	Antony Clayton	2000	3
	The Paris Metro	Susan L. Plotkin	2000	3
	Underground to everywhere	Stephen Halliday	2001	3
	Métronome	Lorànt Deutsch	2009	3
	Underground, overground	Andrew Martin	2012	3
	A twenty minutes' letter to the citizens of London, in favour of the Metropolitan Railway and City Station	Charles Pearson	1859	2
	Die Londoner Untergrundbahnen	Ludwig Troske	1892	2
	Report on the transportation subway systems of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Paris, London	Chicago (Ill.). City Council. Committee on Local Transportation	1909	2
	The subways and tunnels of New York	Gilbert Haskell Gilbert	1912	2
	How the Underground works	Paul Elford Garbutt	1963	2
	Underground railways of the world	Harold Charles Percival Havers	1966	2
	Notre métro	Robert, Jean	1967	2

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

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