📚 Thinking

Books with thinking on their catalogue record, first published between 1854 and 2022, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 27 works carrying the subject thinking in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 13,380 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
	How we think	John Dewey	1909	86
	An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (Barnes & Noble)	George Boole	1854	82
	The Magic of Thinking Big	David Joseph Schwartz	1900	38
	Thinking, fast and slow	Daniel Kahneman	2011	36
	Thinking course	Edward de Bono	1982	24
	Lateral thinking: creativity step by step	Edward de Bono	1970	23
	The Power of Focused Thinking	Edward de Bono	1981	20
	Think Like a Freak	Steven D. Levitt	2014	16
	Deep Work	Cal Newport	2016	16
	Gelassenheit	Martin Heidegger	1959	14
	A technique for producing ideas	James Webb Young	1975	13
	Serious creativity	Edward de Bono	1992	13
	Language and mind	Noam Chomsky	1968	11
	Mindware	Richard E. Nisbett	2015	11
	The mechanism of mind	Edward de Bono	1969	11
	Teaching to transgress	bell hooks	1994	10
	A study of thinking	Jerome S. Bruner	1956	8
	Building a Second Brain	Tiago Forte	2022	8
	Thinking and deciding	Jonathan Baron	1988	7
	Breaking the habit of being yourself	Joe Dispenza	2012	7
	Use both sides of your brain	Tony Buzan	1976	6
	The art of clear thinking	Rudolf Flesch	1951	5
	Where good ideas come from	Steven Johnson	2010	5
	Experiences in visual thinking	Robert H. McKim	1972	4
	Don't Believe Everything You Think	Thomas E. Kida	2006	1
	How successful people think	John C. Maxwell	2009	1
	You are Not So Smart	David Mcraney	2012	1

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

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