📚 Nihilism

Books with nihilism on their catalogue record, first published between 1880 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject nihilism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,052 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
	L'Homme révolté	Albert Camus	1951	82
	The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins	2001	34
	Underground Russia; revolutionary profiles and sketches from life	S. Stepniak	1883	19
	Zapechatlennyĭ trud	Vera Figner	1921	17
	La fine della modernità	Gianni Vattimo	1985	14
	Very little -- almost nothing	Simon Critchley	1960	13
	Russia under the Tsars	S. Stepniak	1885	8
	Nihilism	Stanley Rosen	1969	8
	The experience of nothingness	Michael Novak	1970	7
	Nihilism Now!	Keith Ansell-Pearson	2000	5
	The Russian revolutionary movement	Konni Zilliacus	1905	4
	Nihilismus	Helmut Thielicke	1961	4
	Nihilists	Ronald Hingley	1967	4
	Literature, philosophy, nihilism	Shane Weller	2008	4
	Could there have been Nothing?	Geraldine Coggins	2010	4
	Nihilism and Philosophy	Gideon Baker	2018	4
	Le socialisme allemand et le nihilisme russe	Jean Bourdeau	1892	3
	Iz istorii literaturnago nigilizma, 1861-1865	Strakhov, N.	1961	3
	The women's liberation movement in Russia	Richard Stites	1978	3
	Nihilism	Seraphim Rose	1994	3
	Nihilism and metaphysics	Vittorio Possenti	2014	3
	Nietzsche's Final Teaching	Michael Allen Gillespie	2017	3
	Der russische nihilismus	Ivan Golovin	1880	2
	Der russische Nihilismus	Hryhoriĭ Kupchanko	1884	2
	Vospominanīi︠a︡	Vladimir Karpovich Debogoriĭ-Mokrievich	1894	2
	Über die Linie	Ernst Jünger	1950	2
	Nihilismus	Dieter Arendt	1970	2
	Wolfzeit	Gustav Sichelschmidt	1984	2
	Mi-nihilizm le-ṭoṭaliṭarizm	David Ohana	1987	2
	El retorno griego de lo divino en la postmodernidad	Teresa Oñate	2000	2

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

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