📚 Self-control

Books with self-control on their catalogue record, first published between 1899 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject self-control in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,008 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
	Gelassenheit	Martin Heidegger	1959	14
	Self-regulated learning and academic achievement	Barry J. Zimmerman	2001	12
	Kids Are Worth It!	Barbara Coloroso	1994	9
	No excuses!	Brian Tracy	2010	9
	Stillness Is the Key	Ryan Holiday	2019	9
	Self-restraint v. self-indulgence	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	1947	7
	Leading consciously	Debashis Chatterjee	1998	7
	Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline	Becky A. Bailey	2001	7
	Handbook of personality and self-regulation	Rick H. Hoyle	2009	7
	Willpower	Roy F. Baumeister	2011	7
	The Path To Awakening	Shamar Rinpoché	2014	7
	The Laws of Human Nature	Robert Greene	2018	7
	Dinge geregelt kriegen - ohne einen Funken Selbstdisziplin	Kathrin Passig	2008	6
	The marshmallow test	Walter Mischel	2014	6
	Psychoanalysis Neuroscience and Adolescent Development	Harold K. Bendicsen	2019	6
	Managing Anger	Gael Lindenfield	1993	5
	The Rules to Break	Richard Craze	2013	5
	Focus	Daniel Goleman	2013	5
	Why Do We Hurt Ourselves?	Baptiste Brossard	2018	5
	The kingship of self-control, individual problems and possibilities	Jordan, William George	1899	4
	Self-Control, Decision Theory, and Rationality	José Luis Bermúdez	1900	4
	The self-talk solution	Shad Helmstetter	1987	4
	How to control your anger before it controls you	Albert Ellis	1997	4
	Willpower for Dummies	Frank Ryan	2014	4
	Going from Undisciplined to Self Mastery	Harris Kern	2014	4
	Discipline equals freedom	Jocko Willink	2017	4
	Consciousness and Self-Regulation	Gary Schwartz	1976	3
	Voluntary controls	Jack Schwarz	1978	3
	Self-management and behavior change	Frederick H. Kanfer	1982	3
	Training the mind & cultivating loving-kindness	Chögyam Trungpa	1993	3

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

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