📚 Usage

Books with usage on their catalogue record, first published between 1906 and 2005, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject usage in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 8,851 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
	Usage and abusage	Eric Partridge	1942	34
	The reader over your shoulder	Robert Graves	1943	32
	A dictionary of modern English usage	H. W. Fowler	1926	28
	The King's English	H. W. Fowler	1906	25
	Exercises in English patterns and usage	Ronald Mackin	1960	21
	The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation	Jane Straus	1997	17
	Practical English Usage	Michael Swan	1980	13
	Woe is I	Patricia T. O'Conner	1996	13
	Hammer's German Grammar and Usage	Alfred Edward Hammar	1991	12
	Bryson's dictionary for writers and editors	Bill Bryson	1991	11
	Essential German grammar	Martin Durrell	2002	11
	The five clocks	Martin Joos	1961	10
	The use of English	Randolph Quirk	1962	10
	The Art of Plain Talk	Rudolf Flesch	1946	8
	German in review	Kimberly Sparks	1967	7
	An A-Z of English grammar and usage	Geoffrey N. Leech	1989	7
	How to say it	Rosalie Maggio	1990	7
	The Cambridge guide to English usage	Pam Peters	2004	7
	The King's English	Kingsley Amis	1997	6
	Saying what you mean	Robert Claiborne	1986	5
	Fumblerules	William Safire	1990	5
	El dardo en la palabra	Fernando Lázaro Carreter	1997	5
	Common errors in English usage	Paul Brians	2003	5
	Wrong Word Dictionary	Dave Dowling	2005	5
	Better English	Norman Lewis	1956	4
	Dos, don'ts & maybes of English usage	Theodore Menline Bernstein	1977	4
	A dictionary of basic Japanese grammar	Seiichi Makino	1986	4
	501 Hebrew verbs	Shmuel Bolozky	1996	4
	Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English	Douglas Biber	2002	4
	Facts about current English usage	Marckwardt, Albert Henry	1938	3

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

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