📚 Optimism

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with optimism on their catalogue record, first published between 1904 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject optimism in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,735 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
Bright-sided	Barbara Ehrenreich	2009	10
The Rational Optimist	Matt Ridley	2010	9
Your Forces and How to Use Them	Christian D. Larson	2009	7
Optimism	Helen Keller	2003	6
Rational Optimist	Matt Ridley	2010	6
The optimistic child	Martin Elias Pete Seligman	1995	5
Authentic Happiness	Martin Elias Pete Seligman	2002	5
Contagious Optimism	David Mezzapelle	2013	5
Everything Is Figure Outable	Marie Forleo	2019	5
Optimism	Lionel Tiger	1979	4
Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia	Rob Brezsny	2005	4
Hard Optimism	Price Pritchett	2006	4
The optimism bias	Tali Sharot	2011	4
My key of life (optimism)	Helen Keller	1904	3
Why Is God Laughing?	Deepak Chopra	2008	3
Confidence is Queen	Susie Castillo	2008	3
Smile or die	Barbara Ehrenreich	2009	3
Perfect Positive Thinking	Lynn Williams	2009	3
The intelligent optimist's guide to life	Jurriaan Kamp	2014	3
The mindbody code	Mario E. Martinez	2014	3
Sociology for Optimists	Mary Holmes	2016	3
Find Your Why	Simon Sinek	2017	3
Brass tacks	William Crosbie Hunter	1910	2
The psychology of hope	C. R. Snyder	1994	2
Handbook of positive psychology	C. R. Snyder	2001	2
Hard optimism	Price Pritchett	2004	2
Rethinking Positive Thinking	Gabriele Oettingen	2014	2
Hope without Optimism	Terry Eagleton	2015	2
THE POWER OF POSITIVE SELF TALK	Kim Fredrickson	2018	2
Optimism the Biology of Hope	Lionel tiger	1979	1

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

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