📚 Swimming

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Strokes, training and the races — the whole-body sport, from learning only to stay up to elite distance and sprint work.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject swimming 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
Swimming	Archibald Sinclair	1893	11
Swimming	Betty J. Vickers	1966	11
Grayson	Lynne Cox	2006	9
Why We Swim	Bonnie Tsui	2020	9
Competitive swimming and diving	David Alvin Armbruster	1942	8
Easy steps to safe swimming	Evelyn Ditton McAllister	1959	7
Swimming Time!	Brendan Flynn	2016	7
How to swim	Annette Kellermann	1918	6
Swimming instruction	Amateur Swimming Association.	1937	6
Swimming to Antarctica	Lynne Cox	2004	6
No Limits	Michael Phelps	2008	6
Swimming	Charlotte Guillain	2008	6
Swimming studies	Leanne Shapton	2012	6
Art of Resilience	Ross Edgley	2020	6
Deep deception	Justine McCarthy	2009	5
Swim Smooth	Paul Newsome	2012	5
Find a way	Diana Nyad	2012	5
How to swim	James H. Sterrett	1903	4
The science of swimming	Frank J. Sullivan	1922	4
Basic swimming	Robert J. H. Kiphuth	1950	4
The complete book of dry-land exercises for swimming	Buck Dawson	1965	4
Synchronized swimming	George Rackham	1968	4
How to teach your baby to swim	Claire Timmermans	1975	4
Swimming	Gene Dabney	1990	4
Haunts of the black masseur	Charles Sprawson	1992	4
Swimming (Know the Game)	Amateur Swimming Association.	1992	4
The complete book of swimming	Phillip Whitten	1994	4
Total immersion	Terry Laughlin	1996	4
The art of swimming	Richard Francis Nelligan	1906	3
Speed swimming	Charles Daniels	1907	3

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

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