📚 Rules

Books with rules on their catalogue record, first published between 1907 and 2012, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject rules in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 27,594 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 social construction of reality	Peter L. Berger	1966	26
	The ... Annual official volleyball rules and reference guide of the United States Volleyball Association	United States Volleyball Association	1953	14
	Classified catalogue code	S. R. Ranganathan	1934	13
	Referees' Chart and Players' Guide to the Laws of Association Football	Football Association.	1975	12
	Paul Elvstrom Explains the Racing Rules of Sailing	Paul Elvstrom	1997	12
	A complete hand-book of standard rules of all the prominent games of billiards and pool as practiced by the great professionals and other leading players in all parts of the world	Brunswick Corporation	1908	11
	A primer of chess	José Raúl Capablanca	1935	10
	Golf rules explained	Peter Dobereiner	1980	10
	Golf Rules Illustrated	Royal and Ancient Golf Club	1969	9
	Rules of the Game	Diagram Group.	1974	9
	The laws of cricket	Marylebone Cricket Club.	1951	8
	Soccer (Know the Game)	Football Association.	1986	7
	What Is a Googly?	Rob Eastaway	1992	7
	The complete idiot's guide to chess	Patrick Wolff	1997	6
	Characteristics of games	George Skaff Elias	2012	5
	Understanding soccer tactics	Conrad Lodziak	1966	4
	Scarne's Guide to Modern Poker	John Scarne	1979	4
	The rules of golf	Tom Watson	1988	4
	Pot-Limit Omaha Poker	Jeff Hwang	2008	4
	The Rule of St. Benedict	St. Benedict	1907	3
	Cricket	Marylebone Cricket Club.	1958	3
	The official world encyclopedia of sports and games	Diagram Group.	1979	3
	An Introduction to cataloguing practice	Krishan Kumar	1985	3
	Official rules of chess	United States Chess Federation.	1987	3
	Golf Rules & Etiquette Simplified	John Companiotte	2006	3
	The Sports Book	DK Publishing	2007	3
	Twisted truths of modern dressage	Philippe Karl	2008	3
	The everything games book	Lesley Bolton	2005	2
	An Introduction to Chess Moves and Tactics Simply Explained	Leonard Barden	1964	1
	New rules for classic games	R. Wayne Schmittberger	1992	1

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

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