📚 American Authors

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with american authors on their catalogue record, first published between 1862 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject american authors in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 19,080 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	1969	81
The egg and I	Betty MacDonald	1945	45
84, Charing Cross Road	Helene Hanff	1970	38
Notes from a small island	Bill Bryson	1995	37
Winter Journal	Paul Auster	2012	25
The Climbers	Clyde Fitch	1905	24
The heart of a woman	Maya Angelou	1981	24
The life and letters of Washington Irving	Pierre Munroe Irving	1862	23
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons	Kurt Vonnegut	1974	23
The Invention of Solitude	Paul Auster	1982	22
Complete Letters of Mark Twain	Mark Twain	1917	20
A long way from home	Claude McKay	1937	20
The big sea	Langston Hughes	1940	19
A Man Without a Country	Kurt Vonnegut	2005	17
The plague and I.	Betty MacDonald	1948	15
I wonder as I wander	Langston Hughes	1956	15
Capote	Gerald Clarke	1988	15
Israfel	Hervey Allen	1926	13
Raising demons	Shirley Jackson	1953	13
Bad Boy	Walter Dean Myers	2001	13
Ernest Hemingway	Carlos Baker	1962	12
A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals #1)	Madeleine L'Engle	1971	12
In Search of Our Mother's Garden	Alice Walker	1983	12
This Boy's Life	Tobias Wolff	1989	12
The story of Waitstill Baxter	Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin	1913	11
Guts	Gary Paulsen	2000	11
Reasons to stay alive	Matt Haig	2015	9
Letters Home	Sylvia Plath	1975	8
Brothers and keepers	John Edgar Wideman	1984	8
Henry James	Rebecca West	1916	7

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

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