📚 Popular Culture

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with popular culture on their catalogue record, first published between 1938 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject popular culture in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 23,882 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
Autobiography of a Yogi	Yogananda Paramahansa	1946	183
Homo Ludens	Johan Huizinga	1938	66
Authority and the Individual	Bertrand Russell	1949	63
Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamlined Baby	Tom Wolfe	1965	41
The real world	Kerry Ferris	2008	30
Made in America	Bill Bryson	1994	29
The uses of literacy	Richard Hoggart	1957	26
Histoire de la sexualité	Michel Foucault	1976	23
Talk to the Hand- The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door	Lynne Truss	2005	17
The image	Daniel J. Boorstin	1961	15
In our time	Tom Wolfe	1980	13
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture	John Storey	1994	12
One Summer	Bill Bryson	2013	12
Generation of swine	Hunter S. Thompson	1988	11
All About Love	bell hooks	2000	11
Cultural Theory and Popular Culture	John Storey	2004	11
Are Men Necessary?	Maureen Dowd	2005	11
The Psychopath Test	Jon Ronson	2011	11
Literature, popular culture, and society	Leo Lowenthal	1961	9
Japanese mirror	Ian Buruma	1984	9
Capitalist Realism	Mark Fisher	2009	8
Empire of illusion	Chris Hedges	2009	8
Introducing Japanese Popular Culture	Alisa Freedman	2017	8
The Witches Are Coming	Lindy West	2019	8
Because Internet	Gretchen McCulloch	2019	8
Forever Barbie	M. G. Lord	1994	7
Nobrow	John Seabrook	2000	7
Gender and Popular Culture	Katie Milestone	2012	7
Television Culture	John Fiske	1987	6
American cinema/American culture	John Belton	1994	6

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

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