📚 Biology

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Cells, inheritance, ecosystems and the machinery of being alive, from a bacterium to a rainforest.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject biology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. 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.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology	Kwang W. Jeon	2008	95
Microbiology	Gerard J. Tortora	1982	80
Inquiry into Life	Sylvia S. Mader	1976	63
Biology	Cecie Starr	1991	59
Biology	Neil Allison Campbell	1994	59
Advances in Medicine and Biology	Leon V. Berhardt	2014	51
Under the sea-wind	Rachel Carson	1941	47
Biology	Kenneth R. Miller	1990	47
Biology	David Krogh	2002	42
Biology	Sylvia S. Mader	1985	41
What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell	Erwin Schrödinger	1944	40
Biology	Cecie Starr	1981	36
Molecular Biology of the Cell	Bruce Alberts	1983	36
Life on Earth	David Attenborough	1705	35
The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science	Isaac Asimov	1960	29
Biology	James Morris	2012	29
The Blind Watchmaker	Richard Dawkins	1986	28
Essential Cell Biology	Bruce Alberts	1997	26
Essential biology	Neil Alexander Campbell	2000	26
Biological Science	Scott Freeman	2004	26
Gift from the sea	Anne Morrow Lindbergh	1955	25
Botany	James D. Mauseth	1991	25
Molecular biology of the gene	James D. Watson	1965	24
Campbell Biology	Martha R. Taylor	2011	24
Campbell Biology	Jackson, Robert B.	2010	23
Biology	David Krogh	1999	22
The Wellsprings of Life	Isaac Asimov	1960	21
Biology	Teresa Audesirk	1999	21
Biological science	Biological Sciences Curriculum Study	1963	15
Biology	McGraw-Hill	2001	15

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 28 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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