📚 Home Economics

Books with home economics on their catalogue record, first published between 1749 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject home economics in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 13,362 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 Virginia house-wife	Mary Randolph	1824	80
	The home	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	1903	55
	English housewifery exemplified	Elizabeth Moxon	1749	50
	What If?	Randall Munroe	1980	37
	Cottage economy	William Cobbett	1800	22
	How to clean everything	Alma Chesnut Moore	1952	15
	Getting Organized	Stephanie Winston	1978	14
	The lady's country companion	Jane C. Webb Loudon	1845	11
	An invitation to Indian cooking	Madhur Jaffrey	1973	11
	Milk Street Cookbook	Christopher Kimball	2019	10
	Cheaper and Better	Nancy Birnes	1987	9
	Home economics	Maria Parloa	1898	8
	Housewifery	Lydia Ray Balderston	1919	8
	Skills for Personal & Family Living	Frances Baynor Parnell	2004	8
	The I Hate to Housekeep Book	Peg Bracken	1962	6
	Bonnie's household budget book	Bonnie Runyan McCullough	1981	6
	Organizing from the Inside Out	Julie Morgenstern	1998	6
	How to Cook Everything - Holiday Cooking	Mark Bittman	2003	6
	Household discoveries	Sidney Morse	1908	5
	Living on the earth	Alicia Bay Laurel	1970	5
	Best of helpful hints	Mary Ellen Pinkham	1979	5
	Sidetracked Home Executives	Young, Pam	1980	5
	Is there life after housework?	Don Aslett	1982	5
	Through the kitchen window	Susan Hill	1984	5
	Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management	Isabella Beeton	2000	5
	It's hard to make a difference when you can't find your keys	Marilyn Paul	2002	5
	Bust DIY guide to life	Debbie Stoller	2011	5
	Junior homemaking	Evelyn G. Jones	1958	4
	Home management	Phyllis Davidson	1960	4
	Heloise's Housekeeping Hints	Heloise.	1962	4

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

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