📚 Housewives

Books with housewives on their catalogue record, first published between 1824 and 2011, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject housewives in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,132 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
	Getting Organized	Stephanie Winston	1978	14
	The sociology of housework	Ann Oakley	1974	12
	I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression	Erma Bombeck	1973	10
	Happy Housewives	Darla Shine	2005	9
	To hell with all that	Caitlin Flanagan	2006	9
	The grass is always greener over the septic tank	Erma Bombeck	1976	8
	Housewife	Ann Oakley	1974	7
	Never done	Susan Strasser	1982	7
	Sidetracked Home Executives	Young, Pam	1980	5
	Is there life after housework?	Don Aslett	1982	5
	A 1950s Housewife	Sheila Hardy	2011	5
	The Carolina housewife	Sarah Rutledge	1851	4
	The English housewife in the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries	Rose M. Bradley	1912	4
	The Desperate housewives cookbook	Christopher Styler	2006	4
	What is a wife worth?	Michael H. Minton	1983	3
	Get your act together	Young, Pam	1993	3
	Organize your home!	Ronni Eisenberg	1994	3
	The frantic woman's guide to life	Mary Jo Rulnick	2004	3
	The decadent housewife	Rosemary Counter	2011	3
	Domestic problems	Abby Morton Diaz	1881	2
	Holy housewifery	Ethel Marbach	1967	2
	Carolina Housewife	Sarah Rutledge	1979	2
	Woman time	Diana Silcox	1981	2
	Organize yourself!	Ronni Eisenberg	1986	2
	What's a smart woman like you doing at home?	Linda Burton	1986	2
	Telling Memories/Southern Women	Susan Tucker	1988	2
	The stay at home mom	Donna Otto	1991	2
	Running on empty and looking for the nearest exit	Annie Chapman	1995	2
	So You Want to Be a Stay-At-Home Mom	Cheryl Gochnauer	1999	2

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

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