📚 Violence

Books with violence on their catalogue record, first published between 1969 and 2020, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject violence in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 37,235 works the catalogue holds under that subject. 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
	The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness	Erich Fromm	1973	36
	Violence et le sacré	René Girard	1972	20
	On Killing	Dave Grossman	1995	20
	The Body Keeps the Score	Bessel van der Kolk	2014	20
	The I.R.A	Tim Pat Coogan	1970	19
	The Gift of Fear	Gavin de Becker	1997	17
	Men Explain Things To Me	Rebecca Solnit	2014	17
	Say Nothing	Patrick Radden Keefe	2018	12
	On violence	Hannah Arendt	1969	11
	Why men rebel	Ted Robert Gurr	1970	11
	The better angels of our nature	Steven Pinker	2011	10
	For your own good	Alice Miller	1983	9
	Another day in the death of America	Gary Younge	2016	8
	We Keep the Dead Close	Becky Cooper	2020	8
	When She Was Bad	Patricia Pearson	1997	7
	Violence	Slavoj Žižek	2007	7
	Fist Stick Knife Gun	Geoffrey Canada	1995	6
	Prisoners of Hate	Aaron T. Beck	1999	6
	Lost Boys	James Garbarino	1999	5
	The Revolution Starts at Home	Ching-In Chen	2011	5
	The anatomy of violence	Adrian Raine	2013	5
	The Great Leveler	Walter Scheidel	2017	5
	Rising Up and Rising Down	William T. Vollmann	2004	4
	Between good and ghetto	Nikki Jones	2009	4
	Violence and Maltreatment in Intimate Relationships	Cindy L. Miller-Perrin	2017	4
	Violence in war and peace	Nancy Scheper-Hughes	2003	3
	Gangs in America's communities	Howell, James C.	2011	3
	Teddy	John Gault	1980	2
	The other Wes Moore	Wes Moore	2010	2
	Beyond Survival	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha	2020	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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