📚 Sex Differences

Books with sex differences on their catalogue record, first published between 1870 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject sex differences in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,766 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
	Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus	John Gray	1992	78
	The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex	Charles Darwin	1870	48
	You Just Don't Understand	Deborah Tannen	1972	18
	Silences	Tillie Olsen	1978	15
	Gendered Lives	Julia T. Wood	1993	13
	Man made language	Dale Spender	1980	12
	Sex & gender	Hilary M. Lips	1988	12
	Woman	Natalie Angier	1999	12
	Dr. Tatiana's sex advice to all creation	Olivia Judson	2002	11
	The female brain	Cynthia L. Darlington	2002	11
	Women, men, and language	Jennifer Coates	1986	10
	Testosterone rex	Cordelia Fine	2017	10
	Feminism and linguistic theory	Deborah Cameron	1985	9
	Language and woman's place	Robin Tolmach Lakoff	1975	8
	Same Words, Different Language	Barbara Annis	2003	8
	Pink brain, blue brain	Lise Eliot	2009	8
	Les mots et les femmes	Marina Yaguello	1978	7
	How to suppress women's writing	Joanna Russ	1983	7
	Brainsex	Anne Moir	1989	7
	Talking from 9 to 5	Deborah Tannen	1994	7
	Woman	Natalie Angier	1999	7
	The meaning of difference	Karen Elaine Rosenblum	1999	7
	Delusions of gender	Cordelia Fine	2005	7
	Why Gender Matters	Leonard Sax	2005	7
	Sex and race	J. A. Rogers	1940	6
	What's the Big Secret?	Laurie Krasny Brown	1997	6
	Language and gender	Mary M. Talbot	1998	6
	An introduction to women's studies	Inderpal Grewal	2001	6
	Unmastered	Katherine Angel	2012	6
	Male and Female Realities	Joe Tanenbaum	1989	5

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

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