📚 Criticism

Books with criticism on their catalogue record, first published between 1865 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 21 works carrying the subject criticism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 916,256 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
	Essays	Matthew Arnold	1865	88
	Practical criticism	I. A. Richards	1929	60
	Hieroglyphics	Arthur Machen	1912	36
	Illuminationen	Walter Benjamin	1961	29
	Against Interpretation	Susan Sontag	1966	26
	A short guide to writing about literature	Sylvan Barnet	1968	24
	The sacred wood	T. S. Eliot	1920	23
	Asking the right questions	M. Neil Browne	1981	17
	Literary theory	Terry Eagleton	1983	15
	An Experiment in Criticism	C. S. Lewis	1961	12
	How to read literature like a professor	Thomas C. Foster	2002	12
	Theory of literature	René Wellek	1949	11
	Literary Criticism	Charles E. Bressler	1994	10
	Consider the lobster, and other essays	David Foster Wallace	2005	8
	Asking the right questions	M. Neil Browne	1989	7
	Literary Theory	Jonathan Culler	1997	7
	Introduction to mythology	Eva M Thury	2004	5
	Five approaches of literary criticism	Wilbur Stewart Scott	1962	4
	Notes on Camp	Susan Sontag	2018	3
	The Norton anthology of theory and criticism	Vincent B. Leitch	2001	2
	The Story of Art, 16th Edition (Gombrich, Ernst Hans Josef//Story of Art)	E. H. Gombrich	1995	1

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

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