📚 Quality of Life

Books with quality of life on their catalogue record, first published between 1710 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject quality of life in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,443 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 4-Hour Workweek	Timothy Ferriss	2006	41
	Feel the fear and do it anyway	Susan J. Jeffers	1987	40
	Being Mortal	Atul Gawande	2014	31
	The Psychology of Money	Morgan Housel	2020	27
	Factfulness	Hans Rosling	2018	25
	Utopia for Realists	Rutger Bregman	2016	18
	Community quality-of-life indicators	M. Joseph Sirgy	2004	16
	Ikigai	Héctor García	2016	13
	Wurmland, nach Lands-Art, Regiment, Religion, Sitten und Lebens-Wandel	Franz Callenbach	1710	12
	A don't sweat the small stuff treasury	Richard Carlson	1999	12
	Enlightenment now	Steven Pinker	2018	12
	Stand Up for Your Life	Cheryl Richardson	2002	11
	Diabetes	Rowan Hillson	1987	10
	Eclipses politico-morales	Franz Callenbach	1714	8
	Entropy	Jeremy Rifkin	1980	8
	Embracing Uncertainty	Susan J. Jeffers	2002	8
	Embracing Fear	Thom Rutledge	2002	8
	Cosmic ordering	Barbel Mohr	1925	7
	Slowing down to the speed of life	Richard Carlson	1997	7
	Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity	John Stossel	2006	7
	The Productivity Project	Chris Bailey	2016	7
	Parkinson's disease and quality of life	Robin Elliott	2000	6
	In Praise of Slow	Carl Honore	2004	6
	Enhancing the Quality of Life in Advanced Dementia	Ladislav Volicer	2013	6
	The little book of lykke	Meik Wiking	2017	6
	Having and Being Had	Eula Biss	2020	6
	Creating the World We Want to Live In	Bridget Grenville-Cleave	2021	6
	U.S.-Soviet quality of life	Richard Schifter	1985	5
	Advances in quality of life theory and research	Ed Diener	1999	5
	Sacred contracts	Caroline Myss	2001	5

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

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