📚 Curiosities and Wonders

Books with curiosities and wonders on their catalogue record, first published between 1926 and 2024, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject curiosities and wonders in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 9,874 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 history of spiritualism	Arthur Conan Doyle	1926	29
	National Geographic Kids Almanac	National Geographic	2009	23
	Wild talents	Charles Fort	1932	16
	Believe it or not!	Robert Le Roy Ripley	1929	15
	Stranger Than Fiction	Chuck Palahniuk	2004	12
	There's Treasure Inside	Jon Collins-Black	2024	12
	A book of folk-lore	Sabine Baring-Gould	1970	11
	Guiness World Records 2004	Guinness World Records	2003	11
	Guinness World Records 2007	Guinness World Records	2006	11
	Non è terrestre	Peter Kolosimo	1969	10
	The Areas of My Expertise	John Hodgman	2005	8
	Ripley's believe it or not!	Mary Packard	2001	7
	Strange Creatures From Time & Space	John A. Keel	1970	6
	Ancient mysteries	Peter Haining	1977	6
	Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World	Simon Welfare	1980	6
	The Illuminati Papers	Robert Anton Wilson	1980	6
	The Top 10 of Everything	Russell Ash	1994	6
	Borderlands	Mike Dash	1997	6
	Mysterious America	Loren Coleman	1983	5
	Strangest of All	Frank Edwards	1958	4
	Amazing true stories	Don L. Wulffson	1991	4
	500 Questions and Answers	Anne McKie	1993	4
	Round in circles	Jim Schnabel	1993	4
	Gods, Goddesses, And Monsters	Sheila Keenan	2000	4
	The extraordinary book of lists	Editors of Publications International Ltd.	2007	4
	100 most dangerous things on the planet	Anna Claybourne	2008	4
	The utterly, completely, and totally useless fact-o-pedia	Charlotte Lowe	2009	4
	Lists of Note	Shaun Usher	2014	4
	Mind = Blown	Matthew Santoro	2016	4
	Strange People	Frank Edwards	1961	3

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

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