📚 Progress

Books with progress on their catalogue record, first published between 1795 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject progress in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 4,671 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
	Erinnerungen an die Zukunft	Erich von Däniken	1968	70
	The Structure of Scientific Revolutions	Thomas S. Kuhn	1955	47
	The Rise of the Meritocracy 1870-2033	Michael Dunlop Young	1958	31
	The future as history	Robert L. Heilbroner	1959	24
	Celebration of Awareness	Ivan Illich	1969	21
	The life of reason	George Santayana	1905	19
	Full House	Stephen Jay Gould	1996	19
	The idea of progress	John Bagnell Bury	1920	18
	Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain	Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat marquis de Condorcet	1795	17
	Thought and Change	Ernest Gellner	1964	17
	Progress and religion	Christopher Dawson	1929	16
	The origins of modern science, 1300-1800	Sir Herbert Butterfield	1949	14
	Landmarks of tomorrow	Peter F. Drucker	1957	14
	Le progrès par le christianisme	Joseph Félix	1858	13
	Developing Cultures	Lawrence E. Harrison	2005	12
	Enlightenment now	Steven Pinker	2018	12
	The Idea of Progress	J. B. Bury	1932	11
	Christianity and progress	Harry Emerson Fosdick	1922	10
	Self-Renewal	John W. Gardner	1963	10
	The theory of human progression, and natural probability of a reign of justice	Patrick Edward Dove	1850	9
	Disbelief 101	S.C. Hitchcock	1958	9
	The Rational Optimist	Matt Ridley	2010	9
	Civilization & progress	John Beattie Crozier	1885	8
	The History of Social Development	Franz Carl Müller-Lyer	1923	8
	The idea of progress	Sidney Pollard	1968	8
	Social evolution and political theory	L. T. Hobhouse	1911	7
	Manhood of humanity	Alfred Korzybski	1921	7
	The sociology of progress	Leslie Sklair	1970	7
	Les illusions du progrès	Sorel, Georges	1911	6
	Age of Progress (Great Ages of Man)	Sam C. Burchell	1966	6

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

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