📚 Writing

Books with writing on their catalogue record, first published between 1906 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 23 works carrying the subject writing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 59,614 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 Elements of Style	William Strunk, Jr.	1920	288
	The Little, Brown handbook	H. Ramsey Fowler	1969	77
	The Allyn & Bacon guide to writing	John D. Ramage	1996	51
	Writing & illuminating, & lettering	Edward Johnston	1906	46
	Simon & Schuster handbook for writers	Lynn Quitman Troyka	1987	36
	On Writing Well	William Knowlton Zinsser	1976	33
	Writing with a purpose	James McNab McCrimmon	1950	21
	The Lively Art of Writing	Lucile Vaughan Payne	1965	14
	Write Source	Dave Kemper	1995	14
	Writing Down the Bones	Natalie Goldberg	1986	10
	A short guide to writing about history	Richard Marius	1987	10
	Writing papers in psychology	Ralph L. Rosnow	1986	9
	The Sense of Style	Steven Pinker	2014	9
	A short guide to writing about biology	Jan A. Pechenik	1987	8
	They Say / I Say	Gerald Graff	2018	6
	Just a geek	Wil Wheaton	2004	5
	Let's learn hiragana	Yasuko Kosaka Mitamura	1982	4
	Handwriting analysis	Andrea McNichol	1991	4
	Writing about Writing	Elizabeth Wardle	2010	4
	Writing and Difference	Jacques Derrida	1978	2
	Tratado de grafoscopia y grafometría	Javier Orellana Ruiz	1975	1
	Recovery of your inner child	Lucia Capacchione	1991	1
	Handwriting analysis	Andrea McNichol	1994	1

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

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