📚 Success

The word as a genre: from Smiles’s Victorian self-help to the empirical disagreement about what predicts it.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject success 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
	As a Man Thinketh	James Allen	1902	658
	Think and Grow Rich	Napoleon Hill	1937	309
	The art of money getting, or, Golden rules for money getting	P. T. Barnum	1880	296
	The science of getting rich, or, financial success through creative thought	Wallace D. Wattles	1910	235
	Rich Dad, Poor Dad	Robert T. Kiyosaki	1990	115
	The game of life and how to play it	Florence Scovel Shinn	1925	97
	The Power of Positive Thinking	Norman Vincent Peale	1952	91
	The Law of Success	Napoleon Hill	1969	90
	Psycho-cybernetics	Maxwell Maltz	1960	78
	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People	Stephen R. Covey	1989	78
	Emotional Intelligence	Daniel Goleman	1995	40
	The Magic of Thinking Big	David Joseph Schwartz	1900	38
	Unlimited power	Tony Robbins	1986	34
	Outliers	Malcolm Gladwell	2008	32
	The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success	Deepak Chopra	1994	27
	Principle-Centered Leadership	Stephen R. Covey	1989	21
	The Secret	Rhonda Byrne	2000	21
	The Greatness Guide	Robin S. Sharma	2006	20
	Give and Take	Adam Grant	2013	18
	Mindset	Carol S. Dweck	2006	17
	Deep Work	Cal Newport	2016	16
	How to Win Friends and Influence People / How to stop worrying and start living	Dale Carnegie	1948	14
	The Greatest Secret in the World	Og Mandino	1972	14
	Self-Love	Robert Schuller	1920	12
	The Compound effect	Darren Hardy	2010	12
	You can if you think you can	Norman Vincent Peale	1974	11
	Believe In Yourself (Hay House Classics)	Joseph Murphy	1955	10
	The Dip	Seth Godin	2007	10
	The wisdom of psychopaths	Kevin Dutton	2012	10
	Ultralearning	Scott Young	2019	10

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

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