📚 Volition

Books with volition on their catalogue record, first published between 1819 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject volition in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 126 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
	Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung	Arthur Schopenhauer	1819	82
	Thought reform and the psychology of totalism	Robert Jay Lifton	1961	17
	Grit	Angela Duckworth	2016	14
	Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient	Norman Cousins	1979	12
	The emotions and the will	Alexander Bain	1859	11
	The Healing Heart	Norman Cousins	1983	11
	Maladies de la volonté	Théodule Armand Ribot	1884	9
	Will and spirit	Gerald G. May	2009	7
	The inner pulse	Marc Siegel	2011	7
	Body and will	Henry Maudsley	1883	6
	Escape from destiny	William Horosz	1967	6
	Schopenhauer's Fourfold Root	Jonathan Head	2016	6
	Philosophical and practical treatise on the will	Thomas Cogswell Upham	1843	5
	Trying without willing	Timothy Cleveland	1997	5
	A philosophical and practical treatise on the will	Thomas Cogswell Upham	1834	4
	La volonte	Frédéric Paulhan	1903	4
	The Psychology Of Intelligence And Will	H. G. Wyatt	1930	4
	Action, emotion and will	Anthony Kenny	1963	4
	Our own metaphor	Mary Catherine Bateson	1972	4
	Will and spirit	Gerald G. May	1982	4
	Self-Efficacy, Adaptation, and Adjustment	James E. Maddux	1995	4
	Free Will and the Brain	Walter Glannon	2015	4
	The emotions and the will	Alexander Bain	1875	3
	Les maladies de la volonté	Th Ribot	1883	3
	Intelligenz und Wille	Ernst Meumann	1908	3
	The education of the will	Payot, Jules	1909	3
	Power of will	Frank C. Haddock	1917	3
	L'exercice de la volonté	Georges Dwelshauvers	1935	3
	The other side of power	Claude M. Steiner	1981	3
	Motivation, intention, and volition	Frank Halisch	1987	3

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

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