📚 Thermodynamics

Heat, work, and entropy: the laws that govern every engine and refrigerator, and eventually every star.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject thermodynamics 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
	Fundamentals of engineering thermodynamics	Michael J. Moran	1988	24
	Statistical thermodynamics	Erwin Schrödinger	1944	20
	Physical Chemistry	Thomas Engel	2009	20
	Theory of heat	James Clerk Maxwell	1871	14
	Thermodynamik	Henri Poincaré	1892	14
	Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu	Sadi Carnot	1824	13
	Thermodynamics	E. A. Guggenheim	1949	13
	Thermodynamics	Yunus A. Çengel	1989	13
	Fundamentals of thermodynamics	Richard E. Sonntag	2001	13
	The principles of thermodynamics	George Birtwistle	1925	12
	Heat and thermodynamics	Mark Waldo Zemansky	1943	10
	Thermal physics	C. B. P. Finn	1986	10
	Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials	David R. Gaskell	2003	10
	Vorlesungen über Thermodynamik	Max Planck	1897	9
	Thermodynamics	John Edward Emswiler	1937	9
	Introduction to chemical engineering thermodynamics	J. M. Smith	1949	9
	Thermodynamics	Jurgen M. Honig	1982	9
	Thermodynamics	Subrata Bhattacharjee	2012	9
	The Energy of Physics, Part I	Christopher J. Fischer	2015	9
	Einstein's Fridge	Paul Sen	2019	9
	Engineering thermodynamics	G. F. C. Rogers	1957	8
	Thermodynamics	Kenneth Wark	1966	8
	Thermodynamic properties of individual substances	L. V. Gurvich	1967	8
	Treatise on thermodynamics	Max Planck	1903	7
	Applied thermodynamics for engineering technologists	T. D. Eastop	1963	7
	Fundamentals of classical thermodynamics	Gordon John Van Wylen	1965	7
	A course in thermodynamics	Joseph Kestin	1966	7
	Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics	Michael J. Moran	2007	7
	Basic engineering thermodynamics	Rayner Joel	1966	6
	Thermodynamics	J. P. Holman	1969	6

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

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