📚 Truth

Books with truth on their catalogue record, first published between 1770 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject truth in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 7,171 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 meaning of truth	William James	1909	15
	An essay on the nature and immutability of truth	James Beattie	1770	11
	Wahrheit als Begegnung	Emil Brunner	1938	10
	An essay on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism	James Beattie	1771	9
	Vom Wesen der Wahrheit	Martin Heidegger	1943	9
	Know the truth	Bruce Milne	1982	9
	Vital Lies, Simple Truths	Daniel Goleman	1985	9
	Realms of being	George Santayana	1927	8
	Introduction à la lecture de Hegel	Alexandre Kojève	1947	8
	The Meaning of Truth	William James	1970	8
	The Allegory of the Cave	Πλάτων	2010	8
	Essays on truth and reality	F. H. Bradley	1914	7
	Science, faith and society	Michael Polanyi	1946	6
	Truth	Paul Horwich	1990	6
	You are not so smart	David McRaney	2011	6
	Truth and actuality	Jiddu Krishnamurti	1977	5
	Truth	Simon Blackburn	2005	5
	On Truth	Harry G. Frankfurt	2006	5
	Why truth matters	Ophelia Benson	2006	5
	Truth and Ontology	Trenton Merricks	2007	5
	Post-truth	Lee C. McIntyre	2018	5
	Saving Truth	Abdu Murray	2018	5
	Platons Lehre von der Wahrheit	Martin Heidegger	1947	4
	Truth and symbol	Karl Jaspers	1959	4
	Nietzsche on truth and philosophy	Maudemarie Clark	1990	4
	The varnished truth	David Nyberg	1992	4
	The Four Noble Truths	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	1997	4
	Truth	Simon Blackburn	1999	4
	Orwell on Truth	George Orwell	2017	4
	Patanjali Yoga Sutras	Swami Prabhavananda	1953	3

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

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