📚 Belief and Doubt

Books with belief and doubt on their catalogue record, first published between 1788 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject belief and doubt in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 2,096 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
	De profundis	Oscar Wilde	1905	74
	First and Last Things	H. G. Wells	1908	26
	Mindset	Carol S. Dweck	2006	17
	The foundations of belief	Arthur James Balfour Earl of Balfour	1894	15
	The will to believe	William James	1897	15
	Scepticism and animal faith	George Santayana	1923	13
	Symbolism and belief	Edwyn Robert Bevan	1938	12
	Think Again	Adam Grant	2021	12
	Battle for the mind	William Sargant	1957	11
	The Three Christs of Ypsilanti	Milton Rokeach	1964	11
	Lectures & conversations on aesthetics, psychology, and religious belief	Ludwig Wittgenstein	1966	11
	Recovery of faith	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	1955	10
	Why people believe weird things	Michael Shermer	1997	9
	Strange Histories	Darren Oldridge	2004	9
	Doubt: A History	Jennifer Hecht	2003	8
	Faith and knowledge	Inge, William Ralph	1904	7
	Beliefs, attitudes, and values	Milton Rokeach	1968	7
	The will to believe, and other essays in popular philosophy	William James	1897	6
	Belief and faith	Josef Pieper	1963	6
	Gesamtausgabe	Meinong, Alexius Ritter von Handschuchsheim.	1968	6
	This I believe	Jay Allison	2006	6
	Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast	Lewis Wolpert	2006	6
	The unpersuadables	Will Storr	2013	6
	The triumph of infidelity	Dwight, Timothy	1788	5
	On being sure in religion	Ian T. Ramsey	1963	5
	The web of belief	Willard Van Orman Quine	1970	5
	Price of Doubt	Nicholas Nathan	2002	5
	Believing God	Beth Moore	2003	5
	The Religious Case Against Belief	James P. Carse	2008	5
	Supersense	Bruce M. Hood	2009	5

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

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