📚 Deaf

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with deaf on their catalogue record, first published between 1852 and 2003, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject deaf in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,345 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
The Miracle Worker	William Gibson	1956	46
Seeing Voices	Oliver Sacks	1989	21
Helen Keller	Margaret Davidson	1969	13
American sign language	Dennis Cokely	1980	13
Deafness	David John Murray Wright	1969	12
Apples	Gail Gibbons	2000	12
New opportunities for deaf children	Irene Rosetta Ewing	1958	11
Signing Naturally	Cheri Smith	1988	8
Foundations of aural rehabilitation	Nancy Tye-Murray	1998	8
Tribute to Gallaudet	Henry Barnard	1852	7
I Have a Sister--My Sister Is Deaf	Jeanne Whitehouse Peterson	1977	7
Educating the deaf	Donald F. Moores	1978	7
British sign language	Margaret Deuchar	1984	7
Who Was Helen Keller?	Gare Thompson	2003	7
Understanding Deaf Culture	Paddy Ladd	2003	7
Words for a deaf daughter	Paul West	1969	6
No sound	Julius Wiggins	1970	6
A man without words	Susan Schaller	1991	6
Learning American sign language	Tom Humphries	1920	5
A basic course in manual communication	Communicative Skills Program.	1970	5
A Loss for Words	Lou Ann Walker	1986	5
Deaf in America	Carol Padden	1988	5
For hearing people only	Matthew S. Moore	1992	5
Deaf History Unveiled	John Vickrey Van Cleve	1993	5
Children of a lesser god	Mark Howard Medoff	1980	4
A basic course in American sign language	Tom Humphries	1981	4
A Picture Book of Helen Keller	David A. Adler	1990	4
Train go sorry	Leah Hager Cohen	1994	4
Le cri de la mouette	Emmanuelle Laborit	1994	4
Helen Keller	Johanna Hurwitz	1997	4

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

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